Failing Quotes

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Benjamin Franklin

Fail, Prepare, Preparing

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

Time, Greatest, Fail

Don't be afraid to fail. Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It's OK to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing.
H. Stanley Judd

Failure, Trying, Challenge

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.
Julie Andrews

Times, Succeeding

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

Again, Sign, Innovative

Business and growing jobs is about taking risk, sometimes failing, sometimes succeeding, but always striving. It is about dreams. Usually, it doesn't work out exactly as you might have imagined. Steve Jobs was fired at Apple. He came back and changed the world.
Mitt Romney

Dreams, Work, Business

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

Human, Often, Full

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
Abraham Maslow

Failure, Live, Sense

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

Live, Impossible, Might

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Able, Violence, Youth

Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
Samuel Beckett

Time, Try, Next

A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.
Michelangelo

Beautiful, Pain, Hear

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

Reflection, Achieve, Useful

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

Great, Alone, Others

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.
Paula Abdul

Best, Successful, Yourself

As you know from school, it's when you have not prepared for the test that you have the fear of failing. And if you have prepared, even if you fail, you've done your best.
Alice Walker

Best, Fear, School

Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger until have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember.
Ben Stein

Time, Remember, Keep

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.
W. Somerset Maugham

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

Mistakes, Human, Wrong

What charitable 1 percenters can't do is assume responsibility - America's national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.
Stephen King

Education, War, Care

By failing seriously to confront the most predicable economic crisis in our nation's history, the President's policies are committing us and our children to a diminished future.
Paul Ryan

History, Future, Crisis

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.
Henry Kravis

Good, Failure, Yourself

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.
R. D. Laing

Change, Thoughts, Until

The real question for me is, do people have the tools that they need in order to make those decisions well? And I think that it's actually really important that Facebook continually makes it easier and easier to make those decisions... If people feel like they don't have control over how they're sharing things, then we're failing them.
Mark Zuckerberg

Important, Real, Control

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.
Charles Kettering

Failure, Greatest, Find

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

Greatest, Fail, Arts

Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember.
Anne Sullivan

Time, Remember, Keep

Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want her.
Pope Paul VI

Greatest, Woman, Her

Failing to find in women exactly the same kind of sexual emotions, as they find in themselves, men have concluded that there are none there at all.
Havelock Ellis

Women, Men, Find

Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
Warren G. Bennis

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