Quotes on Failing

It bothers them that instead of taking on the role of abandoned lover, I have become a happy wife. They relish seeing strong women like you and me humiliated. They cannot forgive us that we triumphed where so many others fail...Courage is a virtue appreciated in a male but considered a defect in our gender. Bold women are a threat to a world that is out of balance, in favor of men. That is why they work so hard to mistreat and destroy us.

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

Incuriosity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.

No wise pilot, no matter how great his talent and experience, fails to use his checklist.

The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

it is much safer to be feared than loved because ...love is preserved by the link of obligation which, owing to the baseness of men, is broken at every opportunity for their advantage; but fear preserves you by a dread of punishment which never fails.

When you want to do a big thing, get the mental pattern, make it perfect, know just what it means, enlarge your thought, keep it to yourself, pass it over to the creative power behind all things, wait and listen, and when the impression comes, follow it with assurance. Don't talk to anyone about it. Never listen to negative talk or pay attention to it and you will succeed where all others fail.

Abundance is mine. I cannot be deprived of my supply. The trees do not lack for leaves, nor do the flowers fail to bloom.

In a world that's changing so quickly, you're guaranteed to fail if you don't take any risks.

If we try and fail, we have temporary disappointments. But if we do not try at all, we have permanent regrets.

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

There was never any fear for me, no fear of failure. If I miss a shot, so what?

It's only lonely at the top if you forget all the people you met along the way and fail to acknowledge their contributions to your success.

For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.

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.

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.

No one can remain married today because they are not married to the one they love, they are married to their sacrifice, and pretending to love is too damned painful. Love and build, love and work, love and fight. Always love first. Anything placed before love will fail.

Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.

I would rather fail trying than succeed at doing nothing.

If you write a hundred short stories and they're all bad, that doesn't mean you've failed. You fail only if you stop writing.

What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?