Failing Quotes - Page 46

Follow your genius closely enough, and it will not fail to show you a fresh prospect every hour.

The worst calamity: 'To have eyes and fail to see.'

Militarism. . . is the chief bulwark of capitalism. When it is that militarism is undermined, capitalism will fail.

You just have this freedom when you're younger - this lack of concern to fail or do anything wrong. It comes with an ease that I've found has kind of deteriorated over time.

Sometimes one succeeds, sometimes one fails.

The free market doesn't exist. Every market has some rules and boundaries that restrict freedom of choice. A market looks free only because we so unconditionally accept its underlying restrictions that we fail to see them.

Every day I fail at something.

[Marriage] was the one thing I didn't want to fail at.

If you can be that link to other people that came before you and the ones that come after, then you have to honor that link. If you are doing what somebody else tells you to do and you have success, it's horrible. And if you are doing what other people tell you to do and you fail, it's equally horrible.

For true happiness, it is not enough to be successful oneself . . . one's friends must fail.

We can't afford any president to fail.

There is nothing so weak, for working purposes, as this enormous importance attached to immediate victory. There is nothing that fails like success.

You can sum up what has killed capitalism in four words: too big to fail.

I was very fortunate to have had a mother and father who loved me in spite of my failings.

While I'm doing [writing], I don't feel it.I don't think that's a failing. I think it's just a feature. Like, a feature of oneself.

Those who succeed can't forgive a fellow for being a failure, and those who fail can't forgive him for being a success.

There is no sorrow I have thought more about than that-to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to fail.

Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.

If I'm going to fail, let me fail with something that I care deeply about.

In the many times I have seen Hillary [Clinton] speak, she never fails to dazzle audiences by speaking in paragraphs, without notes.

Get back up, shake the dust off and keep going. Keep going, because Hollywood is set up to make you fail.

Whoever fails to turn aside the ills of life by prudent forethought, must submit to fulfill the course of destiny.

All parties attempt to represent important things that have developed outside themselves as unimportant, and where they fail in this they assail those things all the more bitterly the more admirable they are.

When we stand the truth on its head we generally fail to notice that our head is not standing where it should be standing either.

We own up to minor failings, but only so as to convince others that we have no major ones.