Failing Quotes - Page 10

• The choice, as Wells once said, is the Universe-or nothing. . . . The challenge of the great spaces between the worlds is a stupendous one; but if we fail to meet it, the story of our race will be drawing to its close. Humanity will have turned its back upon the still untrodden heights and will be descending again the long slope that stretches, across a thousand million years of time, down to the shores of the primeval sea.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Future, Space, Race

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• During the next 50 years, in countless cycles, in countless entrepreneurial companies, this let's just go and do it mentality will help us finally get off the planet and irreversibly open the space frontier. The capital and tools are finally being placed into the hands of those willing to risk, willing to fail, willing to follow the dreams.

  Peter Diamandis

  Dream, Future, Space

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• My dog does have his failings, of course. He's afraid of firecrackers and hides in the clothes closet whenever we run the vacuum cleaner, but, unlike me he's not afraid of what other people think of him or anxious about his public image.

  Gary A. Kowalski

  Friendship, Running, Dog

  Gary Kowalski (2007). “The Souls of Animals”, p.15, New World Library

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• Bodybuilding is not just a sport; it's a way of life. If every aspect of your life is not focused on making the sacrifices necessary to build your best physique, you will ultimately fail and never reach your full potential.

  Robert Cheeke

  Sports, Sacrifice, Bodybuilding

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• The words: never, can't, quit, and fail, are not in my vocabulary.

  Robert Cheeke

  Motivational, Bodybuilding, Vocabulary

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• When you are annoyed at someone's mistake, immediately look at yourself and reflect how you also fail; for example, in thinking that good equals money, or pleasure, or a bit of fame. By being mindful of this you'll quickly forget your anger, especially if you realize that the person was under stress, and could do little else. And, if you can, find a way to alleviate that stress.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Mistake, Stress, Thinking

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• The viewer who sees only a study in the picture of the glass jug illuminated from behind fails to appreciate the masterly composition, the noble purity of the lines, the rich plasticity of the form and consequently also the poetry and beauty of the picture, and still more important, its specifically photographic qualities.

  Alexander Rodchenko

  Glasses, Appreciate, Quality

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• She thinks, I failed twice. If I failed twice I'm going to fail forever. No! That is not the law of life. If you failed twice that means you can learn. It's just a learning experience. It's an obstacle. An imaginary obstacle. She made it real. She made failing a journey of life... Instead do again and make a journey of your life.

  Cesar Millan

  Real, Healing, Mean

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• It is a poor reverie which invites a nap. One must even wonder whether, in this "failing asleep", the subconscious itself does not undergo a decline in being.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Sleep, Naps, Doe

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• What stands if Freedom fail? What dies of England live?

  Rudyard Kipling

  Failure, England, Dies

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• Stand still, true poet that you are! I know you; let me try and draw you. Some night you'll fail us: when afar You rise, remember one man saw you, Knew you, and named a star!

  Robert Browning

  Stars, Failure, Men

  'Popularity' (1855) st. 1

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• To fail to do good is as bad as doing harm.

  Plutarch

  Failure, Harm

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• Where wealth and freedom reign contentment fails, And honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Failure, Long, Contentment

  Oliver Goldsmith (1825). “A History of the Earth: And Animated Nature”, p.844

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• We must not fail, individually, for if we fail, we fail twice - for ourselves and for those who could have been helped, if we had done our duty.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Failure, Done, Duty

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• Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Failure, Generosity, Degrees

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1855). “Proverbial Philosophy: A Book of Thoughts and Arguments, Originally Treated : First and Second Series, Complete in One Volume”, p.53

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• Consider that it is not failing in this or that attempt to come to Christ, but a giving-over of your endeavors, that will be your ruin.

  John Owen

  Failure, Giving, Ruins

  John Owen (1839). “The Glorious Mystery of the Person of Christ, God and Man: To which are Subjoined, Meditations and Discourses on the Glory of Christ”, p.567

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• If this fail, The pillar'd firmament is rottenness, And earth's base built on stubble.

  John Milton

  Failure, Earth, Pillars

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1798). “Comus: A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634, Before the Earl of Bridgewater ...”, p.86

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• He who can wait for what he desires takes the course not to be exceedingly grieved if he fails of it; he, on the contrary, who labors after a thing too impatiently thinks the success when it comes is not a recompense equal to all the pains he has been at about it.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Pain, Failure, Thinking

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• I tell ye wut, my judgment is you're pooty sure to fail, Ez long 'z the head keeps turnin' back for counsel to the the tail.

  James Russell Lowell

  Failure, Long, Tails

  James Russell Lowell (1876). “The Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell”, p.256

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• Our country's honor calls upon us for a vigorous and manly exertion; and if we now shamefully fail, we shall become infamous to the whole world.

  George Washington

  Country, Failure, Honor

  George Washington (1840). “The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private”, p.449

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• There is a field where all wonderful perfections of microscope and telescope fail, all exquisite niceties of weights and measures, as well as that which is behind them, the keen and driving power of the mind. No facts however indubitably detected, no effort of reason however magnificently maintained, can prove that Bach's music is beautiful.

  Edith Hamilton

  Music, Beautiful, Failure

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• We are spirits clad in veils; Man by man was never seen; All our deep communing fails To remove the shadowy screen.

  Christopher Pearse Cranch

  Failure, Men, Veils

  Christopher Pearse Cranch (1844). “Poems”, p.51

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• It is possible to fail in many ways . . . while to succeed is possible only in one way (for which reason also one is easy and the other difficult - to miss the mark easy, to hit it difficult).

  Aristotle

  Failure, Missing, Way

  Nichomachean Ethics (c. 330 b.c.).

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• PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Failure, Inspired, Pity

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.165, 谷月社

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• I try to write three jokes every day. I don't sit down and write them, it's just things that pop into my head. Then I'll go watch it fail onstage that night.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Writing, Night, Trying

  Interview with Josh Modell, www.avclub.com. March 7, 2007.

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