Top 250 Failing Quotes

I know if I don’t tour people will forget the record and you run a high risk of the record failing.

In my years, I had the opportunity to observe peoples and countries. I see some countries doing well, others failing, and my analysis of things is that whether you fail or succeed is a function of your value system.

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.

I’m single and looking and failing miserably. I’m keeping my options open.

Prayer provides an opportunity to remind oneself of how one should be living, our responsibilities to others, our own failings, and our relative good fortune, should we have it. This is, I think, a pretty worthwhile practice and it is not something you can only do if you believe you are talking to an unseen creator.

We don’t have the necessary laws or powers to deal with failing non-bank institutions. If they’re a big bank, the depositor has deposit insurance, and the regulators can wind them down without throwing them into bankruptcy.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

I believe the accepted model of capitalism that demands endless growth deserves the blame for the destruction of nature, and it should be displaced. Failing that, I try to work with those companies and help them change the way they think about our resources.

Men are destroyed for being rebellious, and women destroy themselves by failing to be rebellious. Unless you can make that next jump to either getting along with people or resisting people, you are ultimately destroying yourself.

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.

Wisconsin’s kids shouldn’t be allowed to fail just because Washington is failing them.

I think it is a sign of strength when you admit you are wrong, weak or failing.

Prudence does not mean failing to accept responsibilities and postponing decisions; it means being committed to making joint decisions after pondering responsibly the road to be taken.

Critics of American colleges typically attribute the failings of undergraduate education to a tendency on the part of professors to neglect their teaching to concentrate on research. In fact, the evidence does not support this thesis, except perhaps in major research universities.

Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men’s private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large.

Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.

I think that comedy really tells you how it is. The other thing about comedy is that – you don’t even know if you’re failing in drama, but you do know when you’re failing in comedy. When you go to a comedy and you don’t hear anybody laughing, you know that you’ve failed.

When you’re failing, there’s a very powerful incentive to put ideology aside and just do what seems to work.

When I met my wife, I was focused on making money but failing miserably.

I’ve never been unfaithful outside ‘Made In Chelsea.’ I don’t care what the reputation looks like. I was unfaithful on that television show because it’s a show about that. I’m not saying it was acceptable behavior, but the show wouldn’t work without relationships failing. In real life it’s completely different.

You don’t have to be in pursuit of a body beautiful to wish yourself to be the flexuously willowy creature you once were or, failing that, just to be able to pick up something you have dropped.

I grew up in a family that despised displays of strong emotion, rage in particular. We stewed. We sulked. When arguments did occur, they were full-scale conniptions, and we regarded them as family failings. Afterward, we withdrew from one another and tried our best to strike the event from our memories.

Twenty is a hard time. It doesn’t matter what profession you’re in or how much experience you have, you’re always going to be haunted by this feeling of failing. It’s terrifying.

Don’t be afraid to look silly. You are only holding yourself back if you are afraid of looking silly or failing.

In an era of parental paranoia, lawsuit mania and testing frenzy, we are failing to inspire our children’s curiosity, creativity, and imagination. We are denying them opportunities to tinker, discover, and explore – in short, to play.

The TUC’s new slogan ‘a future that works’ sets a profound challenge. Austerity and rapid deficit reduction is failing in its own terms, but even at its best it is short-sighted, muddle-through politics with no vision of a new economic model.

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.

Working together, they will dig out the truth and nothing but the truth about what happened in ’99, to assign responsibility, and to look at the institutional failings.

Most of the guys in the NFL would sit here and tell you we don’t condone the abuse of a child, any sort of abuse of a woman, breaking rules, failing drug tests, or doing any of those things. We hold ourselves to a very high standard.

If the government is going to mandate levels and punish schools for failing, they should send that money to the school system.

I’ve always said if I’m winning at one thing, I’m failing at another.

You should never be scared of failing.

Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.

While politicians may be forgiven for failing to predict the future – who can, alas? – it is amazing that they defiantly ignore the past.

We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

When I arrived in the summer of 2009 to command the war in Afghanistan, I entered an effort that was failing. Many Afghans, some ISAF coalition members, and much of the American public had lost confidence in both the trajectory of the war and our ability to correct it.

I wish we could have acted quicker on Detroit or other failing schools.

If, by chance, you were to meet me at the Casablanca airport or on a boat sailing from Tangiers, you would think me self-confident, but I am not. Even now, at my age, I am frightened when crossing borders because I am afraid of failing to understand strangers.

One of the darkest, deepest shames so many of us mothers feel nowadays is our fear that we are Bad Mothers, that we are failing our children and falling far short of our own ideals.

I love faltering. I love, in a sense, coming up short. Because you learn nothing from success. You learn so much from failing.

So, you know, I actually don’t think it’s going to be that hard to spread the message to people that their leadership – not alone John Cornyn, but including John Cornyn in a big way – is failing us.

I grew up in a family that despised displays of strong emotion, rage in particular. We stewed. We sulked. When arguments did occur, they were full-scale conniptions, and we regarded them as family failings.

If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative.

Because such a massive part of stand-up is trying and failing first, I’m not putting as much pressure on. Just going out and doing it is enough.

Our party’s committed to tackling failing schools and cutting crime.

The only time I judge an actor on set is if they’re not failing; if they get it right all the time, I start to question it. I feel like it’s too easy.

The whole banking sector in Mexico was literally bankrupt. For whatever reason, instead of intervening in the sector or supporting the banks, the government expropriated them. We went through the very laborious period of selling the failing banks to the wealthy people of Mexico.

While the public school rewards failure by throwing more government money at failing school systems, the voucher system does the opposite.

I’m very hard on myself. I think that drives me because I don’t want to let people down or let myself down. That fear of failing drives me from being complacent.

Only the Liberal Democrats have probed the government’s failings consistently, thoroughly and effectively.

A big part of what kept me focused on the music was already failing with basketball. I played basketball all of my life. When basketball didn’t work, I knew that I had to make it in whatever I decided to do next.

There is no getting around it; Congress is failing the American people.