fail Quotes
Daily selection of quotes about fail.
“I cannot give a single concert at which I do not play one piece after the other in an agony of terror because my memory threatens to fail me. This fear torments me for days beforehand.”
- Clara Schumann
“We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.”
- Ted W. Engstrom
“One of the great failings of our education system is that we tend to focus on those who are succeeding in exams, and there are plenty of them. But what we should also be looking at, and a lot more urgently, is those who fail.”
- Michael Morpurgo
“Success is relevant to coping with obstacles... But no problem is ever solved by those, who, when they fail, look for someone to blame instead of something to do.”
- Waggoner, Fred
“Our citizens and those who have gone before us charted the broad outlines of where we need to go, and they would envy our opportunity to translate those dreams into action. And I believe they will judge us very harshly should we fail to act.”
- Dave Freudenthal
“Half the pictures directed by men of reputation fail.”
- Carroll O'Connor
“The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.”
- E. W. Howe
“There's nothing as exciting as a comeback - seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance.”
- Rachel Griffiths
“Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know. I truly believe what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Even if you fail, learning and moving on is sometimes the best thing.”
- Danica Patrick
“The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.”
- Napoleon Hill