Best Failing Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I always wanted to be an actor, but I was always fighting it. It never seemed that honorable to me, and I guess I was always afraid that I might fail.”

Might Wanted Fighting Actors Failing Honorable Always Fighting

Author:Rooney Mara

“Small businesses are the number one job creators in America. Therefore, it is important that the federal government creates an environment that helps them succeed, not one that sets them up to fail.”

Important Helping Government Jobs America Numbers Environment Failing Succeed Creator Federal Government Small Business Job Creators

Author:Randy Neugebauer

“Heads know that failing to invest in good, nutritious food is a false economy and parents won't tolerate reconstituted turkey being put back on the menu.”

Knows Parent Economy Failing Tolerate Turkeys Menus

Author:Jamie Oliver

“I'm most scared of failing, of disappointing people.”

People Failing Scared Disappointing

Author:Rita Ora

“You can almost see voters nodding their heads at home: The public's faith in politicians and political institutions has been on a steep and dangerous decline for decades, because elected leaders fail to deliver.”

Has Beens Home Political Leader Failing Dangerous Politician Institutions Decades Voters Decline Steep Nodding Political Institutions Elected Leaders

Author:Ron Fournier

“The real hero must fail in order to succeed.”

Art Real Order Failing Hero Succeed Martial Arts Real Heroes Order To Succeed

Author:William C. Brown

“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.”

Ifs Needs Ends Failing Harder The End Of The Day

Author:Ali Larter

“It seems the best approach for any venture is a combo platter - Japan's quality-consciousness paired with America's willingness to experiment and (sometimes) fail.”

Sometimes Seems America Consciousness Quality Failing Approach Experiments Japan Willingness Venture

Author:Daniel H. Pink

“Generally speaking, the more money that's involved in anything, the more people are expecting and hoping that it's not going to fail.”

People Failing Involved Expecting More Money

Author:Chris Pine

“It's bad when you fail morally. It's worse when you don't repent.”

Failing Repent

Author:Luis Palau

“Obama sees everything backward. Where Americans see individual achievement, he sees government's work. Where we see failing companies, he sees innovation worth subsidizing. Where we see the need for economic growth, he sees a need for higher taxes.”

Needs Government Individual Growth Company Failing Economic Higher Taxes Achievement Innovation Economic Growth Individual Achievement

Author:Reince Priebus

“Meanwhile after failing the bar twice, I knew some people in New York and moved here in August '71.”

People Failing New York Moved Bars August

Author:Robert Quine

“What my father especially taught me was to not always take the safe road, the easy road. If you are going to do good work, you have to risk failing badly.”

Ifs Father Easy Failing Risk Taught Safe Good Work Easy Road

Author:Natasha Richardson

“Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail.”

Ifs Natural Fiction Wonder Principles Failing Science Fiction Fiction Writers

Author:Rudy Rucker

“Finally, let's keep well in mind the most important lesson of the auto rescue: While government should stay away from the private sector as much as possible, markets do occasionally fail, and when they do government can play a constructive role, as it did in the case of the auto rescue.”

Should Mind Wells Important Play Government Roles Cases Failing Lessons Rescue Constructive Private Sector Important Lessons

Author:Steven Rattner

“Boy's natural play is rough and tumble play, it's the universal play of little boys. And it's very different from aggression. And we are a society that's failing to understand the distinction.”

Littles Different Play Natural Boys Failing Universal Distinction Rough Aggression Little Boys Natural Play

Author:Christina Hoff Sommers

“Though he avoided outright endorsement of the view, fifth-century Church Father Saint Augustine was clearly familiar with the theory of the spherical earth: "They [those who believe that "there are men on the other side of the earth"] fail to observe that even if the world is held to be global or rounded in shape, or if some process of reasoning should prove this to be the case, it would still not necessarily follow that the land on the opposite side is not covered by masses of water."”

“I think the tendency to over-explain and over describe is one of the most common failings in fantasy. It's an unfortunate piece of Tolkien's legacy. Don't get me wrong, Tolkien was a great worldbuilder, but he got a little caught up describing his world at times, at the expense of the overall story.”

Thinking World Writing Littles Stories Common Fantasy Pieces Failing Caught Tendencies Legacy Expenses Unfortunate Caught Up Describing

Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“Well, they each seem to do one thing well enough, but fail to realize that literature depends on doing several things well at the same time.”

Writing Wells Enough Seems Literature Realizing Failing One Thing Depends

Book:Flaubert's Parrot

Source: Flaubert's Parrot

“All of the systems that present different worlds, planes of being and energy centers ultimately fail if you try to make them all-inclusive. They are symbolic representations of something that lies beyond the world of thought and analysis.”

Ifs World Trying Different Wisdom Lying Energy Failing Buddhism Planes Analysis Representation Symbolic Different Worlds

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Fear which has been embedded in your mind since you were a tot doesn't go away easily - it's conditioned in. And because we have fear, we fail to fulfill and realize our potential as human beings.”

Mind Humans Has Beens Humanity Realizing Human Beings Failing Buddhism Going Away Being Human Embedded Tots

Author:Frederick Lenz

“What we see in this world is a gross abnormality. The human consciousness fails to perceive the very simple, divine nature of every atom in every moment.”

World Humans Moments Humanity Simple Consciousness Failing This World Divine Buddhism Perceive Atoms Gross Human Consciousness Divine Nature Abnormality

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I am a responsible parent and have always provided for my children. That fact cannot be disputed. I have made mistakes in my life, but failing to care for my children is not one of them.”

Children Made Facts Care Parent Mistake Failing Responsible My Children Made A Mistake I Have Made Mistakes

Author:Jamal Lewis

“We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time. But if we fail to do this, then unless we intend hereafter to violate the Constitution, we shall have a fugitive slave law in operation whenever the war is over.”

Ifs War Law Failing Constitution Slavery Slave Operations Hereafter Fugitive

Author:Jay Sekulow

“I find increasingly that the more extreme are the things going on in your life, the more cultural reference points fail you. More mythical reference points actually help, and you realize that's what myths are for. It's for human beings to process their experience in extremis.”

Humans Helping Process Human Beings Failing Extremes Myth Realising

Author:Michael Sheen

“If the government fails to listen to your demands, then you will decide what is best for you.”

Ifs Government Failing Demand

Author:Muqtada al Sadr

“The one way of guaranteeing to fail is to assume that we will.”

Way Failing Assuming One Way

Author:Nicholas Stern

“We will not overcome world poverty unless we manage climate change successfully. I've spent my life as a development economist, and it's crystal clear that we succeed or fail on winning the battle against world poverty and managing climate change together. If we fail on one, we fail on the other.”

Ifs World Together Winning Poverty Clear Failing Development Battle Succeed Overcoming Climate Climate Change Manage Economist Crystals World Poverty

Author:Nicholas Stern

“Every time I act on a fear, I feel disappointed in myself. I have a lot of fear. If I can quit all fear in my life and all guilt, then I tend to be much, much more living up to my standards. I've never seen a person fail if they didn't fear failure.”

Ifs Feels Persons I Can Failing Standards Guilt Quitting Disappointed

Author:Sebastian Thrun

“Pop culture hales you and wants you to fail.”

Want Culture Failing Pops Pop Culture Hale

Author:Aisha Tyler

“In an age where everything and everyone is linked through networks of glass and air, no one - no business, organization, government agency, country - is an island. We need to do right by all our stakeholders, and that's how you create value for shareholders. And one thing is for sure - no organization can succeed in a world that is failing.”

World Needs Country Government Age Values Failing One Thing Air Succeed Organization Glasses Islands Agency Linked Shareholders Stakeholder Government Agencies Business Organization

Author:Don Tapscott

“I was kind of scared of failing at acting.”

Kind Acting Failing Scared

Author:James Franco

“Roaring like a tiger turns some children into pianists who debut at Carnegie Hall but only crushes others. Coddling gives some the excuse to fail and others the chance to succeed.”

Giving Children Turns Chance Failing Succeed Excuse Crush Halls Tigers Pianist Roaring Debut Carnegie Carnegie Hall

Author:Ayelet Waldman

“The stereotypical gay man is someone whose company I enjoy, someone who makes me laugh, someone I'd want my kid to be. The stereotypical gay woman makes me insecure, conscious of my failings as a feminist.”

Men Want Kids Enjoy Company Laughing Failing Gay Conscious Feminist Insecure Gay Men Make Me Laugh

Author:Ayelet Waldman

“What I am proud of is I have searched for the best of me and I have been a team man without fail.”

Men Has Beens Failing Team Proud Best Of Me

Author:Jonny Wilkinson

“In order to be creative you have to be allowed to fail.”

Order Creative Failing Be Creative

Author:Julie Walters

“If you fail the first time that's just a chance to start over again.”

Ifs Firsts Chance Failing First Time Starting Over

Author:Lenny Wilkens

“While Taliban fighters had an initial claim to protection under the conventions, they lost POW status by failing to obey the standards of conduct for legal combatants: wearing uniforms, a responsible command structure, and obeying the laws of war.”

War Law Lost Failing Standards Claims Responsible Structure Protection Command Fighter Conventions Uniforms Initials Taliban Obeying Pow

Author:John Yoo

“If listeners aren't carried away to Heaven, I'm failing.”

Ifs Heaven Failing Listeners Carried Away

Author:La Monte Young

“The Obama administration's plan is to have the Federal Reserve regulate banks that might pose a 'systemic risk' if they were to fail.”

Ifs Might Plans Failing Risk Administration Reserves Federal Reserve

Author:Thomas Frank

“No-one wants to see anybody fail in life.”

Want Failing

Author:Barry O'Sullivan

“Beyond a narrow, elite audience, there is a pervasive sense from the side of the public that much contemporary art fails to connect - a failure not evident throughout centuries of earlier art.”

Art Sides Audience Failing Century Contemporary Elites Evident Contemporary Art

Author:John Walford

“If you're not failing all the time, you're not creating a situation where you can get lucky.”

Ifs Writing Situation Failing Lucky Creating

Author:Ira Glass

“Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.”

“Be patient. Your skin took a while to deteriorate. Give it some time to reflect a calmer inner state. As one of my friends states on his Facebook profile: "The true Losers in Life, are not those who Try and Fail, but those who Fail to Try."”

Giving Trying States Failing My Friends Skins Patient Inner Peace Loser Be Patient Profile Calmer

Author:Jess C Scott

“If the devil cannot keep you from being saved, if next he fails to make you backslide, then he undertakes to keep you just an average Christian. Here he succeeds with most believers.”

Ifs Christian Next Failing Succeed Devil Average Believer Christian Inspirational Saved

Author:Vance Havner

“90% of all those who fail are not actually defeated. They simply quit.”

Failing Quitting Persistence Defeated

Author:Paul J. Meyer

“Persevere. Plan. Strategize. Focus. Breathe. Write. Let go: relax. Forgive. All this failing: take a nap.”

Writing Focus Plans Failing Letting Go Forgiving Breathe Relax Persevere Naps

Book:Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life

Source: Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life

“I think as an actor, you're constantly putting yourself out there, and a lot of times failing - and failing in front of a bunch of people - and sometimes you have a good moment and something clicks.”

People Thinking Sometimes Moments Actors Failing Fronts Bunch Clicks Putting Yourself Out There Good Moments

Author:Chris Messina

“With all the movies I've done, I still get recognized from my episode of 'Law & Order' more than anything else. It never fails.”

Stills Done Law Order Failing Episodes

Author:Anthony Mackie

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