Fail Quotes

When I was the captain of a ship I never failed to bring my ship to port and I won't fail to bring Romania to safe harbor. The belief that the president no longer represents the people is false.

We need to think deeply about whether we can sustain banks that are not only too big to fail, but potentially too big to bail.

Every day I fail at something.

General Lee, this is no place for you. These men behind you are Georgians and Virginians. They have never failed you and will not fail you here. Will you boys?

Now it is evident that a little insight into the customs of every people is necessary to insure a kindly communication; this, joined with patience and kindness, will seldom fail with the natives of the interior.

If you fail the first time that's just a chance to start over again.

Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

There are millions of ways for people to die, if you number each vital organ, each ways it can fail, all the poisons from the earth and the sea which can cause these failures.

Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it.

Wisconsin's kids shouldn't be allowed to fail just because Washington is failing them.

I can't tell you what will happen over the next four years. But I can only stand here tonight, as a wife, a mother, a grandmother, an American, and make you this solemn commitment: This man will not fail. This man will not let us down. This man will lift up America!

If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.

To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.

If the people should elect, they will never fail to prefer some man of distinguished character, or services; some man, if he might so speak of continental reputation.

I think IT projects are about supporting social systems-about communications between people and machines. They tend to fail due to cultural issues.

If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for my family, although I must abandon my life to its success, and undergo many sad perplexities and perhaps never see again my own beloved America.

I'm a perfectionist. I can't help it, I get really upset with myself if I fail in the least.

I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.

I had to watch government fail for 25 years doing consumer reporting before I really saw it because intuitively, the reaction is problem, bring government and government will make it better.

Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy.

So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

What I am proud of is I have searched for the best of me and I have been a team man without fail.

All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.

So what is so strange about saying I want Barack Obama to fail if his mission is to reconstruct and reform this nation so that capitalism and individual liberty are not its foundation? I want the country to survive. I want the country to succeed.

Our citizens and those who have gone before us charted the broad outlines of where we need to go, and they would envy our opportunity to translate those dreams into action. And I believe they will judge us very harshly should we fail to act.

What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?

Why do Greeks always open restaurants that fail?

I've always wanted to call the shots because I would rather fail than not have a chance to figure it out on my own.

We make the oldest stories new when we succeed, and we are trapped by the old stories when we fail.