Fails Quotes

He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.

There is probably no oral society that fails to mark the spatial distinction of left and right, peculiar as this distinction may be.

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

The people are forbidden to give aid and comfort to rebels. What of a government that has the power to cut off from aid and comfort all the rebels of the South and fails to exercise it?

The consummate gentleman on the planet today is George Clooney, who never fails to go the extra mile for people. Every person matters to George.

Nothing lifts me out of a bad mood better than a hard workout on my treadmill. It never fails. Exercise is nothing short of a miracle.

I think when you're doing a lead role, there is so much more pressure. If you fail, not only do you fail, but everybody else fails, too. As opposed to when it's a supporting role and it's only you that sucked.

No individual has a vested right to a job when that individual fails to perform adequately.

When all else fails, complicate matters.

Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.

The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.

The Declaration of Independence says when government fails, the people have the right to replace it. Well, New York State government has failed and the people have the right, indeed the people have the the people have the obligation, to act.

The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends.

These days I have to be extra nice in stores. It never fails that whenever I look as bad as I can possibly look or I am sort of cranky because the store is out of something, that is precisely the time when someone one will recognize me and say: 'I really like your show.'

If you hype something and it succeeds, you're a genius - it wasn't a hype. If you hype it and it fails, then it was just a hype.

Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails.

So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity; if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse.

A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, if it produce nothing useful to the world, seldom fails of entertainment to itself.

If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.