fails Quotes
Daily selection of quotes about fails.
“In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.”
- MacArthur, Douglas
“Misdirected focus on paperwork, on procedures, and on bureaucracy frustrates teachers and fails to give children the education they need.”
- Christopher Bond
“Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure.”
- Margaret Drabble
“As one gets older, it happens that in the morning one fails to remember the airplane trip to be taken in a few hours or the lecture scheduled for the afternoon.”
- Rudolf Arnheim
“If the government fails to listen to your demands, then you will decide what is best for you.”
- Muqtada al Sadr
“You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one.”
- Rush Limbaugh
“There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.”
- Erich Fromm
“He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.”
- Samuel Johnson
“In our tabulation of psychoanalytic results, we have classed those who stopped treatment together with those not improved. This appears to be reasonable a patient who fails to finish his treatment, and is not improved, is surely a therapeutic failure.”
- Hans Eysenck
“I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.”
- Michael Jordan