Quotes About Fail

Did the government make a conscious decision to let Lehman fail, and, if so, why did it go on to save AIG?

I've long favored smart judicial-selection reform - every member of my court does - and every legislative session, reform measures are filed... and then they fail.

Now that I have a little platform, and there are more eyes on me to release something, all that does is challenge me and put me under pressure, and I love being under pressure, especially musically. I might fail, but I'm excited about the possibilities.

five years work many changes. At the end of a war all our portraits are out of date: the timid man had been given a gun to slay with, and the brave man had found is nerve fail him in the barrage.

When I hear people debate the ROI of social media? It makes me remember why so many business fail. Most businesses are not playing the marathon. They're playing the sprint. They're not worried about lifetime value and retention. They're worried about short-term goals.

I think too many people in Hollywood perhaps fail to make a distinction between the political side of Israel and the notion of the country. And they can be separate things.

Every man whom chance alone has, by some accident, made a public character, hardly ever fails of becoming, in a short time, a ridiculous private one.

Any time you try to create an Internet meme, automatic fail. That's like the worst thing you can do.

Climate change and global poverty are two sides of the same coin. Both challenges must be addressed together. If we fail on one, we will also fail on the other.

Knowledge has entertained me and it has shaped me and it has failed me. Something in me still starves.

In the words of Phillips Brooks: Some day, in the years to come, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here, now… Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made except by a steady, long continued process.

the real struggle is here, now… Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer.

Wanting is natural, and may succeed or fail without wrong. Say covet, rather. To covet is to desire something which should not be given.

Any movement that calls itself "scientific" but fails to nurture opportunities for the testing of its own beliefs (most obviously when it murders or imprisons the people who disagree with it) is not a scientific movement.

I like a good cliche because it reminds you that much of management practice boils down to things you need to do but often forget or fail to do often enough.

We tell stories to live, to love, to prosper and to fail.

Lost is not an address, it's not permission to fail, it's not an excuse.

Lost is not an address, it's not a permission to fail, it's not an excuse.

Jesus praised faith and trust – even more than love. It takes a foundational trust to fall, or to fail, and not to fall apart.

If you want to recruit good human resources, you really have to improve the wage conditions or fail to hire anyone suitable.

That is ridiculous," she said. The king agreed. "Like falling in love with a landslide. Only you could fail to notice.

I speak to the Black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition--about what we can endure, dream, fail at and survive.

I have always tried to make profitable films because people's offices shut down if films fail, and I will do everything to avoid that.

Satan's first appearance in the Bible included an attack on a marriage—trying to divide Adam and Eve. His tactics have not changed. He wants our marriages to flounder and fail, because he knows that few things will discourage us more.