Failing Quotes

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes. (George Soros)
The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds. View quote
Ronald David Laing
A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it. View quote
Michelangelo
What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative. View quote
Woody Allen
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 fail by default. View quote
J. K. Rowling
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. View quote
Yvon Chouinard
I really do believe that if you don't challenge yourself and risk failing, that it's not interesting. View quote
Julie Taymor
I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't and then tries the short story which is the most demanding form after poetry. And failing at that, only then does he take up novel writing. View quote
William Faulkner
Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led. View quote
Warren Bennis
It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
In an age where everything and everyone is linked through networks of glass and air, no one - no business, organization, government agency, country - is an island. We need to do right by all our stakeholders, and that's how you create value for shareholders. And one thing is for sure - no organization can succeed in a world that is failing. View quote
Don Tapscott
Failing to plan is planning to fail. View quote
Alan Lakein
You know, Hoosiers recognize pork when we see it. And they recognize what bailing out every failing business in America means - We're burying generations under a mountain range of debt. View quote
Mike Pence
As I said there is nothing wrong with failing. Pick yourself up and try it again. You never are going to know how good you really are until you go out and face failure. View quote
Henry Kravis
Everyone is your best friend when you are successful. Make sure that the people that you surround yourself with are also the people that you are not afraid of failing with. View quote
Paula Abdul
I'm not afraid of failing. I don't like to fail. I hate to fail. But I'm not afraid of it. View quote
Vince McMahon
I did not share the enthusiasm of certain politicians for the National Front leader, it was because I had noticed, in the past, some strange contradictions between Mossadeq's declared ends and his actions. Officially he defended nationalist anti-colonialism and was the most intransigent patriot who declared that no concessions or advantages should be granted to foreign powers. He described his doctrine as a "negative balance" and in fact his greatest failing was that he was negative. View quote
Muhammad Reza Pahlavi
I don't want to walk in the middle. I want people to read what I write and feel strongly about it. If, at some point, whatever I am doing is failing to elicit a response, whether it's very positive or very negative, then I am going to stop doing it. View quote
James Frey
I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions... the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast. View quote
Colin Firth
The urge to break with a tradition is only appropriate when you're dealing with an outdated, troublesome tradition: I never really thought about that because I take the old-fashioned approach of equating tradition with value (which may be a failing). But whatever the case, positive tradition can also provoke opposition if it's too powerful, too overwhelming, too demanding. That would basically be about the human side of wanting to hold your own. (Gerhard Richter)
I sleep well. It's the politicians who are to blame for failing to come to an agreement and resorting to violence. View quote
Mikhail Kalashnikov
Old age is a flight of small cheeping birds skimming bare trees above a snow glaze. Gaining and failing they are buffeted by a dark wind - But what? On harsh weedstalks the flock has rested - the snow is covered with broken seed husks and the wind tempered with a shrill piping of plenty. View quote
William Carlos Williams
I have need of a friend. There is one and only one who will give the air from his failing lungs for my body's mend. And that one is my love. View quote
Maya Angelou
At 13, I was fearless. I looked at everything so positive. When you're older and been through it all, you know how bad it can get. There is a fear of failing. View quote
Michelle Kwan