Failing famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Music is all about transporting people; speaking a language which languages fail to express.
-- A. R. Rahman -
Without your involvement you can't succeed. With your involvement you can't fail.
-- Abdul Kalam -
Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel -
Without the assistance of that Divine Being...I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities.
-- Abraham Maslow -
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.
-- Abu Bakar Bashir -
I understood that I might fail, but I wouldn't let it happen because I changed my compass along the way.
-- Adam Braun -
Acting is really about having the courage to fail in front of people.
-- Adam Driver -
The hardest part about being an entrepreneur is that you'll fail ten times for every success.
-- Adam Horowitz -
You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
-- Adam McKay -
I'm waiting for the time when I fail - because we all fail - and I'm ready, I'll take up carpentry.
-- Ade Edmondson -
Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.
-- Al Neuharth -
If you're not failing 90% of the time, then you're probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
-- Alan Kay -
I never fail to feel let down when I see myself on the screen
-- Alan Ladd -
For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
-- Alan Paton -
I have a rendezvous with death... I will not fail that rendezvous
-- Alan Seeger -
Philosophers, for example, often fail to recognize that their remarks about the universe apply also to themselves and their remarks. If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so.
-- Alan Watts -
Every farm woodland, in addition to yielding lumber, fuel and posts, should provide its owner a liberal education. This crop of wisdom never fails, but it is not always harvested.
-- Aldo Leopold -
Your friends will notice at once that glib vacuities fail to impress, and hate you, and tell lies about you. It's worth it.
-- Aleister Crowley -
It is unthinkable in the twentieth century to fail to distinguish between what constitutes an abominable atrocity that must be prosecuted and what constitutes that "past" which "ought not to be stirred up.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
Being joyful is about staying positive when everything else seems to fail.
-- Alex Gonzaga -
As an entrepreneur, you have to be OK with failure. If you're not failing, you're likely not pushing yourself hard enough.
-- Alexa Von Tobel -
My logisticians are a humorless lot ... they know if my campaign fails, they are the first ones I will slay.
-- Alexander the Great -
The amazing thing is that the more money it takes for a movie to get made, the more you feel like everybody wants you to fail.
-- Alfonso Cuaron -
Nobody adopts antisocial behaviour unless they fear that they will fail if they remain on the social side of life.
-- Alfred Adler -
When it comes down to it, at the end of the day, I need more out of my life and I need to push myself harder. And if at the end of the day I don't have it, then I don't have it, but at least I'm going to put myself out there. If I fail, I'm going to fail terrifically.
-- Ali Larter -
The story fails but your faith in the importance of doing the story doesn't fail.
-- Alice Munro -
One thing about failing repeatedly: If you're still doing it after you've failed that much, you really mean it.
-- Alice Sebold -
A Gallagher Girl's real grades don’t come in pass or fail—they're measured in life or death.
-- Ally Carter -
Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott -
Everybody who is somebody becomes nobody the moment they fail
-- Amy Harmon -
Where the myth fails, human love begins. Then we love a human being, not our dream, but a human being with flaws.
-- Anais Nin -
Either one fails in one's art or in one's life.
-- Anais Nin -
Just don't let the human factor fail to be a factor at all
-- Andrew Bird -
If you know that something is true and just, and you give up, thats when you fail.
-- Andrew Forrest -
I did what my conscience told me to do, and you can't fail if you do that.
-- Anita Hill -
The world should not be organized to require heroines, and when one is required but fails to appear, we should not judge.
-- Ann-Marie MacDonald -
Though just biographical record will touch the failings of the good and the eminent with tenderness.
-- Anna Seward -
I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.
-- Anne Baxter -
Rule 1: When all else fails, follow instructions. And Rule 2: Don't be an asshole.
-- Anne Lamott -
It’s amazing what you can do when you stop worrying about failing.
-- Anne Sweeney -
I must have some sort of record in failing to get into the charts.
-- Anni-Frid Lyngstad -
"Why is everyone here so happy except me?" "Because they have learned to see goodness and beauty everywhere," said the Master. "Why don't I see goodness and beauty everywhere?" "Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside."
-- Anthony de Mello -
Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside.
-- Anthony de Mello -
The purpose of a system is what it does. There is after all, no point in claiming that the purpose of a system is to do what it constantly fails to do.
-- Anthony Stafford Beer -
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.
-- Anuj -
Any commander who fails to exceed his authority is not of much use to his subordinates.
-- Arleigh Burke -
Nothing fails like success when you rely on it too much.
-- Arnold J. Toynbee -
I've heard all my life that 'this is impossible, you can't make' it and 'you're going to fail' but I didn't listen to them and I made it.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger -
You never want to fail because you didn't work hard enough.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger -
I am consumed with the fear of failing. Reaching deep down and finding confidence has made all my dreams come true.
-- Arsenio Hall -
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.
-- Art Buchwald -
"I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in drawing your inferences."
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.
-- Arthur Machen -
What I've become good at is bringing things that aren't necessarily mainstream to the mainstream. What I did see on Twitter was a potential for mass publication; it's a mainstream consumer broadcasting device. It transforms customers and companies. You have to be transparent or you fail.
-- Ashton Kutcher -
I fail frequently - I just try to keep it quiet.
-- Ashton Kutcher -
Failing doesn't have to mean not succeeding,
-- Astro Teller -
It's not that I succeed, it's that everyone else has to fail, horribly, preferably in front of their parents.
-- Attila the Hun -
We Have Medicalized Aging, and That Experiment Is Failing Us
-- Atul Gawande -
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.
-- Augustus John -
Calamities that are not the result of purely natural phenomena usually have their origins, distant and obscure though they may be, in common human failings.
-- Aung San Suu Kyi -
Let's all commit ourselves to the basic civility of minding our own business. Failing that, let's go back to a time when we were nasty and judgmental, but only behind one another's backs.
-- Ayelet Waldman -
Find a faster way to fail, recover, and try again.
-- Aza Raskin -
Someday, without fail, everyone will disappear, scattered into the blackness of time.
-- Banana Yoshimoto -
The United Nations is our conscience. If it succeeds it is our success. If it fails it is our failure.
-- Barbara Hepworth -
I don't understand how any good art could fail to be political.
-- Barbara Kingsolver -
The GSEs are adequately capitalized. They are in no danger of failing.
-- Ben Bernanke -
A misspelled word is probably an alias for some desperate call for aid, which is bound to fail.
-- Ben Marcus -
If you can't build relationships from nothing, you will fail. You must have that drive.
-- Ben Parr -
A man, if he be active and energetic, can hardly fail also, be he never so selfish, of benefiting the general public interest.
-- Benjamin Butler -
The one who fails to prepare is preparing to fail.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
A Christian cannot fail of being a republican.
-- Benjamin Rush -
Even when we know what is right, too often we fail to act. More often we grab greedily for the day, letting tomorrow bring what it will, putting off the unpleasant and unpopular.
-- Bernard Baruch -
Sometimes, even the very best course of action fails.
-- Bernard Beckett -
When an airplane's engines fail, it is not the end of the flight.
-- Bernhard Schlink -
If a financial institution is too big to fail, it is too big to exist.
-- Bernie Sanders -
Christianity offers reasons for not fearing death or the universe, and in so doing it fails to teach adequately the virtue of courage.
-- Bertrand Russell -
Harness the Power of Accelerated Failure - the faster you fail, the faster you succeed.
-- Bill Bonner -
Comedy is incredibly hard. You have to be loose. You have to be not afraid to fail.
-- Bill Hader -
A really failing society has a lot of rules (or laws).
-- Bill Mollison -
Many invest wisely in business matters, but fail to invest time and interest in their most valued possessions: their spouses and children.
-- Billy Graham -
You can get defeated, just as long as you don't fail.
-- Billy Mills -
In order to succeed spectacularly you have to be willing to fail spectacularly.
-- Biz Stone -
A personal belief is that if you're not personally invested in what you're working on, you'll fail.
-- Biz Stone -
Yes I try to do everything I can not to fail hideously.
-- Bob Balaban -
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,
-- Bob Corker -
If you try to be anyone but yourself, you will fail; if you are not true to your own heart, you will fail. Then again, there's no success like failure
-- Bob Dylan -
I used to be afraid of failing at something that really mattered to me, but now I'm more afraid of succeeding at things that don't matter.
-- Bob Goff -
People who make decisions go to the top. Those who fail to make decisions go nowhere.
-- Bob Proctor -
When you fail by your own standards, it's a form of success.
-- Bonnie Hunt -
My basic rule is, if it could possibly come from the end user, it's not a run-time crash. But if it is my code to my code, I crash it as hard as possible—fail as early as possible.
-- Brad Fitzpatrick
