Fail Quotes

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

Under adversity, under oppression, the words begin to fail, the easy words begin to fail. In order to convey things accurately, the human being is almost forced to find the most precise words possible, which is a precondition for literature.

The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes.

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 think it's because in America you always get the sense that if you fail, you can just pack up your things and go somewhere else and try again. But in England, it's so geographically small that if somebody succeeds here, it reduces your chances of succeeding.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

I'm in a position where whatever I do, I can get my head handed to me. I'm in a position to fail because there is a whole group of people out there who want me to fail. It's a weird vibe.

I think a failed state is the responsibility of the people who have made that state fail, and those are generally the people of that country.

In order to be creative you have to be allowed to fail.

The only people who never fail are those who never try.

I think you have to try and fail, because failure gets you closer to what you're good at.

I have a feeling that very soon I'm going to fail very, very big. I'm going to try something and everybody's going to be like, 'What was she thinking?'

You need the willingness to fail all the time.

You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk.

I'm not afraid of failing. I don't like to fail. I hate to fail. But I'm not afraid of it.

Beyond this day, no thinking person could fail to see what would happen.

Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent.

You have to be able to be a good loser. You have to be okay knowing you're going to fail every day in something without getting mad and upset.

The main thing that endears the United Nations to member governments, and so enables it to survive, is its proven capacity to fail, and to be seen to fail.

I want anyone who believes in life, liberty, pursuit of happiness to succeed. And I want any force, any person, any element of an overarching Big Government that would stop your success, I want that organization, that element or that person to fail. I want you to succeed.

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.

The Greek debt issue, for example, is such a threat because if that country ever defaulted, it might cause some bank that's 'too big to fail' to actually fail.

So many groups fail because they spend all their time in the clubs. Work pours in and they can't handle it because of late-night drinking.