Home / Topics / Failing Quotes

Failing Quotes

Browse 5413 quotes about Failing.

Failing Quotes

“When you're up against a trouble, meet it squarely, face to face. Lift your chin and set your shoulders, plant your feet and take a brace. When it's vain to try to dodge it, do the best that you can do. You may fail, but you may conquer. See it through!”

Trying May Faces Can Do Failing Trouble Feet Plant Shoulders Conquer Lifts Vain Do The Best Face To Face Chins Dodge Braces

Author:Edgar Guest

“Not all who seem to fail have failed indeed,Not all who fail have therefor worked in vain.There is no failure for the good and brave.”

Seems Failing Failure Brave Vain No Failure

Author:Richard Chenevix Trench

“Poets may boast (as safely-vain) Their work shall with the world remain: Both bound together, live, or die, The verses and the prophecy. But who can hope his lines shou'd long Last, in a daily changing tongue? While they are new, envy prevails, And as that dies, our language fails.”

World May Long Together Lasts Dies Language Lines Failing Poet Bounds Tongue Envy Vain Verses Prophecy Boast

Author:Edmund Waller

“If we fail to interest, whether because we are dull and heavy, or because our hearers are so, we teach in vain.”

Ifs Interest Teach Failing Heavy Vain Dull

Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

“All Empires fall, All ages die, All strife shall be in vain. All Kings go down, All hope must fail, But Tanelorn remains Our Tanelorn remains.”

Age Dies Fall Failing Kings Remains Vain Empires Strife

Author:Michael Moorcock

“It is vain to complain of fortune while we fail in policy and conduct.”

Failing Policy Fortune Complaining Vain

Author:Norm MacDonald

“The laws keep up their credit, not by being just, but because they are laws; 'tis the mystic foundation of their authority; they have no other, and it well answers their purpose. They are often made by fools; still oftener by men who, out of hatred to equality, fail in equity; but always by men, vain and irresolute authors.”

Men Wells Made Stills Law Purpose Answers Failing Fool Authority Hatred Foundation Credit Vain Equity Mystic

Book:The Essays of Montaigne

Source: The Essays of Montaigne