Home / Topics / Failing Quotes

Failing Quotes

Browse 5413 quotes about Failing.

Failing Quotes

“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

“A nation that fails to plan intelligently for the development and protection of its precious waters will be condemned to wither because of its shortsightedness. The hard lessons of history are clear, written on the deserted sands and ruins of once proud civilizations.”

Hard Nations Water Clear Plans Failing Written Development Proud Civilization Lessons Environmental Protection Ruins Sand Deserted Hard Lessons

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969

“It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.”

“Even if they're not reaching out to us, we're going to reach out to them anyway and involve them in a meaningful way. Because if we don't, we will fail to learn the lesson of a generation before us, that reached out for us and never let us go.”

Ifs Way Failing Generations Lessons Meaningful Reaching Reach Out

Author:Kweisi Mfume

“I fail all the time, but we are all just human and imperfect, but you know what's best for you, so follow your gut. That's probably my biggest life lesson, follow your gut.”

Knows Humans Failing Lessons Guts Life Lesson Imperfect

Author:Chris Wyse

“F-A-I-L-I-N-G [is] Finding An Important Lesson, Inviting Needed Growth. So you don't actually fail, you find a better way to do whatever you're doing, and that's your ability, the truth of your core from past life experiences to where you are now in this life. It gives you the ability to be in your truth, without anything holding you down in a box that will never open.”

Way Giving Important Past Growth Ability Failing Needed Lessons Findings Boxes Core This Life Where You Are Life Experience Better Ways Inviting Past Life Important Lessons

Author:Gary Busey

“You can't have a bad time at Disney World. It's not allowed. They have hidden electronic surveillance cameras everywhere, and if they catch you failing to laugh with childlike wonder, they lock you inside a costume representing a beloved Disney character such as Goofy and make you walk about in the Florida heat getting grabbed and leaped on by violently excited children until you have learned your lesson.”

Source: Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need

“Not everything is a lesson. Sometimes you just fail.”

Sometimes Failing Lessons

Author:Rainn Wilson

“In reality, though, the first thing to ask of history is that it should point out to us the paths of liberty. The great lesson to draw from revolutions is not that they devour humanity but rather that tyranny never fails to generate them.”

Should Firsts Reality Humanity Asks Liberty Path Failing Revolution Lessons Draws Tyranny

Author:Pierre Trudeau

“Children should have the joy of living in far lands, in other persons, in other times - a delightful double existence; and this joy they will find, for the most part, in their story books. Their lessons, too, history and geography, should cultivate their conceptive powers. If the children do not live in the times of his history lesson, be not at home in the climate his geography book describes, why, these lessons will fail of their purpose.”

Ifs Should Children Persons Book Stories Home Joy Purpose Existence Failing Land Lessons Should Have Climate Delightful Geography Joy Of Living Story Book

Author:Charlotte Mason

“When I fail or make a mistake, I ask myself what lesson I was supposed to learn or how I can show up differently next time.”

I Can Shows Next Asks Mistake Failing Lessons Next Time

Author:Karla Cheatham Mosley

“Failing can provide invaluable lessons and making mistakes and experiencing setbacks is part of the DNA of every successful entrepreneur.”

Mistake Successful Failing Lessons Entrepreneur Making Mistakes Dna Setback Invaluable Successful Entrepreneurs

Author:Richard Branson

“Think that it's fun, that you're guided, and that all is well. Think that there's time, that life is easy, and that the best is yet to come. Think that the reasons that elude you will one day catch up, that the lessons that stumped you will one day bring joy, and that the sorrows that have crippled you will soon give you wings. Think that you're important, that you cannot fail, and that happiness always returns. And think that you're beautiful.”

“There is no such thing as failure; everything is just a stepping stone to a greater lesson or achievement. I have found that to be absolutely true. My so-called failures have been some of my greatest learning tools. I just make sure to fail up. I'm not afraid to fall on my face while I attempt new things.”

Has Beens Faces Fall Found Greater Failing Lessons Achievement Tools Stones Not Afraid New Things Stepping Stones

Author:Idara Victor