Failing Quotes - Page 5

• In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Failure, Adversity

  Vince Lombardi, Balance Design (1998). “Motivation Lombardi Style”

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• If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

  Edward Albee

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone.

  Johnny Cash

  Mistake, Failure, Use

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The one thing that scares me the most is failing. It scares me that one day I wont be at this level. But while Im here and while Im having success early, Im trying to do everything to stay on this level.

  Terrell Davis

  Trying, One Day, Scare

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• 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.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Believe, Thinking, Growth

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• Before this government came to power, many failing schools were simply allowed to drift on in a pattern of continuing failure. The government is determined to break that pattern and is successfully doing so.

  Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley

  School, Government, Patterns

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• Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure.

  Mark Skousen

  Taxation, Levels, Pay

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• One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities.

  Abraham Maslow

  Possibility, Peak Experiences

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• 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.

  Carl Reiner

  Drama, Thinking, Laughing

  Interview with Ken Plume, asitecalledfred.com. Ocotber 2004.

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• Nothing fails like success.

  Richard Pascale

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Democratic leaders, whose power is ultimately dependent on popular support, are held accountable for failing to improve the lives of their citizens. Therefore, they have a powerful incentive to keep their societies peaceful and prosperous.

  Natan Sharansky

  Powerful, Leader, Support

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• Losers quit when they fail. Winners fail until they succeed.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Success, Failure

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• No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others; or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Business, Educational, Needs

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• Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "From Telegraph to Light Bulb with Thomas Edison". Book by Deborah Headstrom-Page, 2007.

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• Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience.

  Michael Eisner

  Life, Failure, Experience

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• Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Inspirational, Motivational, Moving On

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• It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

  Charles Kettering

  Life, Tattoo, Art

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• The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.

  Charles Kettering

  Success, Failure, Science

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  Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

  Og Mandino

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World”, p.25, Bantam

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• Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

  Alexander Pope

  Pride, Vices, Haughtiness

  Alexander Pope (1835). “The works of Alexander Pope; with a memoir of the author, notes [&c.] by G. Croly”, p.66

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• It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Money, Political, Politics

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• Failure does not exist. Failure is simply someone else's opinion of how a certain act should have been completed. Once you believe that no act must be performed in any specific other-directed way, then failing becomes impossible.

  Wayne Dyer

  Life, Cheating, Believe

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• Where the suspect poses no immediate threat to the officer and no threat to others, the harm resulting from the failing to apprehend him does not justify the use of deadly force to do so.

  Byron White

  Doe, Use, Reincarnation

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• There's nothing wrong with failing if you learn from it, and I've failed out here plenty.

  Trent Dilfer

  Sports, Plenty, Ifs

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• * We have come this far always believing
  that justice would somehow prevail.
  This is the burden, this is the promise,
  and THIS is why we will not fail.

  Peter Yarrow

  Believe, Failure, Justice

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