Definition of Failing

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Definition of Failing
	Failing of Fail A failing short; a becoming deficient; failure; deficiency; imperfection; weakness; lapse; fault; infirmity; as, a mental failing. The act of becoming insolvent of bankrupt. Related Definitions: Act, As, Bankrupt, Becoming, Deficiency, Deficient, Fail, Failing, Failure, Fault, Imperfection, Infirmity, Insolvent, Lapse, Mental, Of, Short, The, Weakness

Failing Quotations

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I don't think any drug that can cause brain damage, failing kidneys, hardening arteries, pain, and suffering should be made available.
Layne Staley

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

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

Failing Translations

failing in French is faillant
failing in German is scheiternd, durchfallend, fehlerhafte
failing in Spanish is fracaso

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