Quotes About Failing

And they act in the face of risk, because their fear of not succeeding exceeds their fear of failing.

I know you are reading this poem through your failing sight, the thick lens enlarging these letters beyond all meaning yet you read on because even the alphabet is precious.

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.

It is simultaneously the blessing and the curse of the reflective Christian that believers are called to live out their faith in the church. No institution has accomplished so much for good in the world; none has fallen so short of its calling! The church is God-ordained, God-inspired, but accomplishes its work through human beings subject to every possible failing.

Donald Lydecker: Alcoholism is not a disease, it's a failing. You've turned it into a church. You worship the altar of self-pity. I come to these rooms for one reason, to remember what I don't want to become... helpless, impotent, and weak.

Chancellor said, 'She is concerned for your future.' 'She is concerned for her dog and her cat,' Lymond said. 'It is a Somerville failing.

The love of wine is a good man's failing.

If the government is going to mandate levels and punish schools for failing, they should send that money to the school system.

It's a national failing to think of politics as something that goes on in Parliament. It isn't; it's something that goes on inside us.

Insofar as explanation fails to account for some salient fact, it is incomplete and its parsimony can no longer rightly be regarded as an asset. Indeed, the key failing of materialism, as we shall see, is that its parsimony is purchased at the cost of misrepresenting reality.

the spectacle of people following current custom for lack of will or imagination to do anything else is hardly a new failing.

This is how you know religion is failing because people think you're bonkers if you believe in God and also because it's so uncool believing in Jesus and everything.

There is no impossibility to him who stands prepared to conquer every hazard. The fearful are the failing.

the world is failing precisely because no novel can make the contest for the world seem as compelling as the struggles between a few lost people.

he does intimate here that a sin or failing can be quantified by the transgressor's degree of freedom.

There is nothing more base than a certain loathing for the oppressed that goes to great lengths to justify their downtrodden state by pointing to their shortcomings. Not even great and lofty philosophers are entirely free of this failing.

Three of the most unused critical tools in the arsenal for growth of new managers are listening, observing and failing.

I was accorded the opportunity to learn by failing - albeit at the cost of a few honourable teachers' sanity - and now I realise what a rare and incredible luxury that is.

The Three Laws of TDD You are not allowed to write any production code until you have first written a failing unit test. You are not allowed to write more of a unit test than is sufficient to fail—and not compiling is failing. You are not allowed to write more production code that is sufficient to pass the currently failing unit test.

He has never been a fool except for a pair of eyes or a pretty ankle, the gray-haired woman said, and that is a failing of every man.

When the fear of losing money and failing becomes too painful inside, a fear we both have, he chooses to seek security and I choose to seek freedom.

Losers avoid failing. And failure turns losers into winners.

Wacko Glenn Beck is a sad answer to the Sarah Palin endorsement that [Ted] Cruz so desperately wanted. Glenn is a failing, crying, lost soul.

The heavy soul will not pass though the body is failing.