Quotes on Failing

My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail.

A man who aspires to rise above the mediocre, to be something more than the ordinary, surely deserves admiration, even if he fails and loses a fortune on account of his ambitions (...) if one has failed only where others have not had the courage or will to try, there is consolation - indeed, deep satisfaction - to be gained from his observation when looking back over one's life. #Page no.134

A Christian cannot fail of being a republican.

We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.

You know, that might be the answer - to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That's a trick that never seems to fail.

God! how is it that we fail to recognize that the mask of pleasure, stripped of all hypocrisy, is that of anguish?

The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.

People who take huge risks aren't afraid to fail. In fact, they love to fail. It's because failing means they found the edge.

The province of faith begins where probabilities cease and sight and sense fail.

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

For this is the journey that men and women make, to find themselves. If they fail in this, it doesn't matter much else what they find.

Is it better to be extremely ambitious, or rather modest? Probably the latter is safer; but I hate safety, and would rather fail gloriously than dingily succeed.

In whatever man does without God, he must fail miserably, or succeed more miserably.

The modern believer is not suspicious enough, which is perhaps why when they try to construct arguments in their defence, the convictions are left doing all the work and reason, debilitated by neglect, weakly fails to prop them up.

What can be said, lacks reality. Only what fails to make its way into words exists and counts.

You fail by default when you live so cautiously you never fail.

People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of them.

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

Filmmaking, like any other art, is a very profound means of human communication; beyond the professional pleasure of succeeding or the pain of failing, you do want your film to be seen, to communicate itself to other people.

Life’s greatest tragedy consists of men and women who earnestly try, and fail!

People refuse to take chances in business, because they fear the criticism which may follow if they fail. The fear of criticism, in such cases is stronger than the DESIRE for success.