Failing Quotes

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success.

The third group is focused on counterintelligence and security. I think the reason for that is fairly evident, in terms of vulnerabilities of the department and the harm that can come to it by failing to detect when we have, in fact, been harmed.

I wish we could have acted quicker on Detroit or other failing schools.

Our party's committed to tackling failing schools and cutting crime.

Business and growing jobs is about taking risk, sometimes failing, sometimes succeeding, but always striving. It is about dreams. Usually, it doesn't work out exactly as you might have imagined. Steve Jobs was fired at Apple. He came back and changed the world.

You know, Hoosiers recognize pork when we see it. And they recognize what bailing out every failing business in America means - We're burying generations under a mountain range of debt.

Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want her.

But to me the bottom line is the more education you can give yourself, and the more preparation you can do, the less chance of failing.

Very few of the great leaders ever get through their careers without failing, sometimes dramatically.

The streets and alleys of the ward were notoriously filthy, and the contractors habitually neglected them, not failing, however, to draw their regular payments from the city treasury.

You know what 'FAILING' stands for? It stands for 'Finding An Important Lesson, Inviting Needed Growth.'

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.

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

I am consumed with the fear of failing. Reaching deep down and finding confidence has made all my dreams come true.

The entire time I was modeling, I was trying and failing at businesses. In fact, we would have started our business much sooner had I been more successful.

You grow up by making mistakes. I've made a ton of them, but as long as I keep on failing better, I don't mind.

It's always unfortunate when a reporter is sent behind bars for failing to turn over sources. There's no way to say what the long-term outcome will be.

I just have a position that any child that's in a failing school should be able to get out, or be in a position to have that school fixed.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

I don't think any drug that can cause brain damage, failing kidneys, hardening arteries, pain, and suffering should be made available.

The cure for capitalism's failing would require that a government would have to rise above the interests of one class alone.

I decided to become an actor because I was failing in school and I needed the credits.

What charitable 1 percenters can't do is assume responsibility - America's national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.

I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions... the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast.

When I'm winning, winning, winning with a certain way why would I mess with that? When I realised there was lot to be gained from failing in some people's eyes, it made it all the more interesting!

Democratic leaders, whose power is ultimately dependent on popular support, are held accountable for failing to improve the lives of their citizens. Therefore, they have a powerful incentive to keep their societies peaceful and prosperous.

If you feel your school is failing you, the question is why. Is it a lack of parental involvement, large classes, school violence, poor learning environment? Are there any standards to determine where problems are? Are there tutoring or mentoring programs? If the school is still failing after 3 years then what are your options?

If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.