Failing Quotes - Page 26

The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates.

If I'm not free to fail, I'm not free to take risks and everything in life that's worth doing involves a willingness to take a risk.

All calculations based on experience elsewhere, fail in New Mexico.

Imagining someone else's pain with too much surety can be as damaging as failing to imagine it.

Business cannot prosper in societies that fail.

You won't know the meaning of success without knowing how it feels to fail.

I have often heard it said that the Irish are too ready to forgive. It is a noble failing.

If you don’t try at anything, you can’t fail.

What day is so festal it fails to reveal some theft?

The modern believer is not suspicious enough, which is perhaps why when they try to construct arguments in their defence, the convictions are left doing all the work and reason, debilitated by neglect, weakly fails to prop them up.

The critical image... must not only fail to capture its referent, but show its failure.

Indeed, it would be great if we could all be liberated through reason, but I think it only gets us part of the way. After all, someone may have a very logical view, but for other reasons we may still fail to hear what that person says, or we may turn their words around so that they are understood to say the opposite. The task is really to find ways of addressing deep-seated forms of fear and aggression that make it possible to hold to manifestly inconsistent views without quite acknowledging them.

Because he could not afford to fail, he could not afford to trust.

Better than succeeding little by little is failing at one go.

My biggest adjustment has been learning not to be afraid to fail.

Let none henceforth seek needless cause to approve The faith they owe; when earnestly they seek Such proof, conclude, they then begin to fail.

She that fails to command her thoughts will soon lose command of her actions.

Fail early, fail often, but always fail forward.

Wisconsin's kids shouldn't be allowed to fail just because Washington is failing them.

Every time you fail, you learn more.

God’s love to us cannot fail any more than His love to Christ can fail.

Attempt something so great for God that it is doomed to fail unless God is in it, and you're in it as well.

It is always more difficult to fight one's own failings than the power of an adversary.

To be one of the special ones, you've got to want to take that shot-you've also got to be willing to fail, learn from it, come back and take that shot again.

I will not fail: God is always victorious.