Failing Quotes - Page 34

• the American family is failing in its job of turning out stable human beings. ... It is failing because Americans do not dare to cultivate in themselves those characteristics which would make family life creative and rewarding. To do so, would ruin them financially.

  Margaret Halsey

  Jobs, Creative, Ruins

  Margaret Halsey (1952). “The Folks at Home”

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• Curiously enough, while very small people have a never-failing sense of their own importance, very great ones are often easily disheartened and put out of conceit with themselves.

  Elizabeth Wordsworth

  People, Enough, Conceit

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• It is nothing to succeed if one has not taken great trouble, and it is nothing to fail if one has done the best one could.

  Nadia Boulanger

  Taken, Succeed, Done

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• The origin of the stupid ideal of womanhood against which men as well as women to-day are still fighting was the asceticism of the Christian religion; and, unless St. Paul was a woman in disguise, I fail to see how woman is to be blamed for a conception of her place and duty from which she has suffered more than anybody else.

  Dora Russell

  Christian, Stupid, Fighting

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• I don't think anyone's a failure as long as they're still innocent. Just a little. They may lose everything good in them but as long as they believe just a little in something very small, they're still innocent. To fail is to lose every bit of innocence.

  Charlotte Bingham

  Believe, Failure, Thinking

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• Could anyone fail to be depressed by a book he or she has published? Don't we always outgrow them the moment the last page has been written?

  Mary Ritter Beard

  Book, Pages, Lasts

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• Be. Here. NOW. Don't forget to breathe. When all else fails, grab a clown nose.

  Tom Bergeron

  Noses, Forget, Breathe

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• Not everyone in an organization is in a position to accumulate power through competent performance because most people are just carrying out the ordinary and the expected - even if they do it very well. The extent to which a job is routinized fails to give an advantage to anyone doing it because 'success' is seen as inherent in the very establishment of the position and the organization surrounding it. Neither persons nor organizations get 'credit' for doing the mandatory or the expected.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Jobs, Work, Organization

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• There's a couple of universal principles in life. One is, don't ever open a restaurant. One out of every two fails.

  Susan Powter

  Couple, Two, Principles

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• Fear of failure is the fuel of achievement. If you weren't afraid to fail, you probably wouldn't be highly motivated to work at the level that most of us have to work at to do well.

  Ruth Simmons

  Failure, Achievement, Fuel

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• there are many ways to fail. Some reject success. And others do not recognize it when success comes.

  Gene Tierney

  Failure, Way, Rejects

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• America was the worst place in the world in which to fail, fall sick, get old or die, because then your problems had crystallised into the unforgivable sin. Failure.

  Evelyn Anthony

  Fall, Unforgivable Sin, America

  Evelyn Anthony (2015). “The Rendezvous”, p.46, Open Road Media

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• It is the empiric who never fails.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Failure

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• It is commonly the case with technologies that you can get the best insight about how they work by watching them fail.

  Neal Stephenson

  Technology, Cases, Insight

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• faith isn't faith until it's all we have to hold on to and knowledge fails us. When we pray for faith, we automatically pray for darkness. Think about it.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Faith, Thinking, Darkness

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• Global warming is a deadly threat precisely because it fails to trip the brain's alarm, leaving us soundly asleep in a burning bed.

  Daniel Gilbert

  Leaving, Brain, Bed

  "If Only Gay Sex Caused Global Warming" by Daniel Gilbert, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 7, 2007.

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• when Christian theology becomes traditionalism and men fail to hold and use it as they do a living language, it becomes an obstacle, not a help to religious conviction. To the greatest of the early Fathers and the great scholastics theology was a language which, like all language, had a grammar and a vocabulary from the past, but which they used to express all the knowledge and experience of their own time as well.

  Lily Dougall

  Christian, Religious, Father

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• The best painters, as they progress in reputation and towards perfection, are found to dispense more and more with the technique of the art, for simpler methods. Simplicity never fails to charm.

  Honore de Balzac

  Art, Perfection, Simplicity

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• Everybody should be entitled to one lie, one failing, one infidelity.

  Martin Firrell

  Lying, Infidelity, Should

  International Herald Tribune, November 24, 2005.

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• The New Finance focused on the market's major systematic mistake. In failing to appreciate the strength of competitive forces in a market economy, it over estimates the length of the short run. In doing so, it overreacts to records of success and failure for individual companies, driving the prices of successful firms too high and their unsuccessful counterparts too low.

  Robert Haugen

  Running, Mistake, Successful

  "The Inefficient Stock Market - What Pays Off And Why". Book by Robert Haugen, ch. 15, The Wrong 20-yard Line, p. 142, 1999.

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• The success-haters. That's what I call them -- the people who have never got what they want and turned sour on everybody who has. The world's full of them. As soon as you've made good they begin to watch for you to fail.

  Zoe Akins

  People, Watches, World

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• In our 'don't just sit there, do something' culture, when we get sick we are supposed to become characters in a heroic medical narrative that conceals the remorselessness of pathology, the intractable fact of human vulnerability, and the inevitable inadequacies of medicine. To many of the participants in the medical drama, aggressive treatment - even when it fails - represents a quasi-religious quest for immortality and meaning.

  Suzanne Gordon

  Religious, Drama, Character

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• It is the common failing of an ambitious mind to over-rate itself.

  Lady Caroline Lamb

  Mind, Ambitious, Common

  Lady Caroline Lamb (1972). “Glenarvon (1816).”, Scholars Facsimilies & Reprint

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• People didn't sit and watch television and go, oh, my God, we're failing. So what are they doing in China is, they set up the markets as the test of their own economic management and of this whole theory of economic liberalization.

  Margaret Warner

  People, Management, Economic

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Everyone understands that love comes in many different packages and is used in many different ways. You cannot love beyond your years, nor can you fail to love beneath them... In other words, I think you get the love you need when you open your heart.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Love You, Heart, Love Is

  "Nikki Giovanni - Celebrity Guest Author Interview". Interview with Cheryl Holloway, www.cherylholloway.net. February 14, 2014.

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