Failing Quotes - Page 24

The main thing that endears the United Nations to member governments, and so enables it to survive, is its proven capacity to fail... You can safely appeal to the UN in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down.

Learn how to fail intelligently.

For all our failings, despite our limitations and fallibilities, we humans are capable of greatness.

Keep your head up and smile, because someone somewhere wants to see you fail.

I didn't go to Harvard or Princeton, but I can count - the defunding box canyon is a tactic that will fail and weaken our position.

Many invest wisely in business matters, but fail to invest time and interest in their most valued possessions: their spouses and children.

Everybody I know fails the acid test of friendship.

Someday, without fail, everyone will disappear, scattered into the blackness of time.

The... promptitude with which many painters, on arriving at an entirely new and unfamiliar place, settle down to work at once, never fails to astonish me: it seems indecent, like button-holing a complete stranger.

We can all learn from our failures. What I've learned is how much it hurts to fail.

To think of failure is to fail.

Writing humor in my column isn't as dangerous as performing it. If I fail in front of a live audience, the humiliation is as great as anything a human being can suffer.

Selfishness is the biggest form of helplessness as it makes the person blind so much that he fails to search his true self for being always in the lurch.

You cannot by any chance fail if you persevere.

It is better to fail at your own life than to succeed at someone else's.

Where the myth fails, human love begins. Then we love a human being, not our dream, but a human being with flaws.

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

The hardest part about being an entrepreneur is that you'll fail ten times for every success.

Likewise the leader of any state has to do the same, he has to enforce Shariah firmly, for he will be held in account later in the afterlife if he fails.

There are always those who take it upon themselves to defend God... These people fail to realize that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside.

It surely is far better to be disliked by somebody you don't love than by somebody you do. Even so, I mind. Even so, failing to love somebody is a failure.

The willingness to fail gives us the freedom to succeed.

If we're just trying to be accurate, then how about 'The Doomed to Fail Bunch'?" said Constance. "Honestly! We can't even name ourselves.

The Greeks distinguished between good and bad behavior, language that enhanced or diminished persons. Being intoxicated with scientism, we fail to recognize that the seemingly technical terms used to identify psychiatric illnesses and interventions are simply dyphemisms and euphemisms.

I did not fail two thousand times. I merely found two thousand ways not to make a lightbulb.