Top 25 Failing Quotes of 1248 - Page 9

When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.

When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.

Juvenal

Writing, Talent, Failing

The only way to fail for me is just not to try.

Garry Kasparov

Trying, Way, Failing

For most of us, design is invisible. Until it fails

Bruce Mau

Design, Failing, Invisible

Bruce Mau, Jennifer Leonard, Institute without Boundaries (2004). “Massive change”, Phaidon Press

Find a faster way to fail, recover, and try again.

Aza Raskin

Trying, Way, Failing

Most businesses fail because they want the right things but measure the wrong things, and they get the wrong results.

Gordon Bethune

Want, Failing, Results

I never lost or fail, not yet conquered. If I fall seven times, I get up eight

Bodhidharma

Fall, Eight, Failing

I'm not afraid to fail. Sometimes when you lose, you win. Sometimes when you win, you lose.

Bernie Mac

Winning, Sometimes, Failing

Source: business.highbeam.com

You must always be prepared. Make sure to look at things from all angles. If you are not prepared you will fail.

Benjamin Franklin

Looks, Failing, Angle

I've permitted myself to learn and to fail with some regularity. And that is probably the one thing I was given, and that I'm still grateful for.

John Malkovich

Grateful, Failing, Given

"Stage acting? It's just too hard". Interview with John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. November 17, 2005.

The province of faith begins where probabilities cease and sight and sense fail.

George Muller

Sight, Failing, Probability

The human spirit fails, except when the Holy Spirit fills.

Corrie Ten Boom

Life Changing, Spirit, Failing

When strict with oneself, one rarely fails.

Confucius

Criticism, Failing, Strict

Confucius (1950). “The Best of Confucius”

Endeavors succeed or fail because of the people involved.

Colin Powell

People, Succeed, Failing

Colin L. Powell (1995). “My American Journey”, Random House Incorporated

Any other foundation will fail, but Christ is a sure and steady rock to build your life on.

Billy Graham

Rocks, Foundation, Failing

Studious to please, yet not ashamed to fail.

Samuel Johnson

Failure, Failing, Ashamed

'Irene' (1749) prologue

Those who act will fail. Those who seize will lose.

Laozi

Taoism, Failing, Loses

You know, that might be the answer - to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That's a trick that never seems to fail.

Joseph Heller

Answers, Might, Failing

"Catch-22". Book by Joseph Heller, 1961.

How beautiful it is to learn that Grace isn't fragile, and that in the family of God we can fail and not be a failure.

Gloria Gaither

Beautiful, Grace, Failing

Gloria Gaither (1997). “Because He Lives: The Stories and Inspiration Behind the Songs of Bill and Gloria Gaither”, Zondervan Publishing Company

In Los Angeles, they don't want you to fail, they want you to die.

David Geffen

Want, Failing, Los Angeles

In a democracy, someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there was something not quite fair about it.

Thucydides

Office, Democracy, Failing

"History of the Peloponnesian War". Book by Thucydides, Book VIII, 8.89, 431–404 BC.

When you go independent, if you fail, you're totally responsible for it. If you succeed, you're totally responsible for it. You are responsibly for who you are... and what you do and what you make.

Tablo

Independent, Succeed, Failing