Fail Quotes

I'm waiting for the time when I fail - because we all fail - and I'm ready, I'll take up carpentry.

Official motto of the White House economic team: Those who can, do. Those who can't, fantasize in the classroom, fail in Washington and then return to the Ivy Tower to train the next generation of egghead economic saboteurs. Life is good for left-wing academics. Everyone else pays dearly.

You fail only if you stop writing.

Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.

It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.

As the lower parts of the Japanese houses and shops are open both before and behind, I had peeps of these pretty little gardens as I passed along the streets; and wherever I observed one better than the rest I did not fail to pay it a visit.

Your patience would fail you if I should continue to relate all the disrespectful speeches and treatment which your servants have been obliged to listen to and patiently to bear.

In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

I decided long ago never to walk in anyone's shadow; if I fail, or if I succeed at least I did as I believe.

I never fail to feel let down when I see myself on the screen.

Sometimes people just want you to fail. Except your really good friends. I've always known who my best friends were.

That's why I believe that we must never fail to affirm that we are indeed one nation under God.

It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.

I think it's better to attempt something and fail than it is to not even attempt it, so I'm glad that I've been prepared to put myself on the line there.

If you don't understand the details of your business you are going to fail.

A movie star is someone people look at and go, 'I want to be like that person'. There's the responsibility of desire. It's not something I'm interested in trying. I would fail miserably at it, so why even bother?

Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail.

Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

The sad thing is, when it comes to diet, is that even when well-intentioned Feds try to do right by us, they fail. Either they're outvoted by puppets of agribusiness, or they are puppets of agribusiness.

You may not be aware of a recent survey that showed that if the First Amendment were put to a popular vote today, it would fail by a 60% to 40% vote.

No child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed.

We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

Folks, this government isn't too big to fail, it's too big to succeed.

I want to be perfect. I don't want to fail. And you always fail.

The United States is the most innovative country in the world. But our leadership could slip away if we fail to properly fund primary, secondary and higher education.

Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.

The biggest reason most people fail is that they try to fix too much at once - join a gym, get out of debt, floss after meals and have thinner thighs in 30 days.

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.