Quotes About Failing

Quitting my day job and starting my life as a writer was a tremendous risk. It was a fool's leap, a shot in the dark. But anything of any value in our lives, whether that be a career, a work of art, a relationship, will always start with such a leap. And in order to be able to make it you have to put aside the fear of failing and the desire of succeeding. (...) Because things that we do without lust of result are the purest actions that we shall ever take.

failing to prevent earth's salvation is your only triumph...and yet that failure overshadows every past success!

We can no longer contemplate a world in which public or private sector funds are used to bail out or recapitalize failing firms.

When you see government leaders really bullying business, you know that government's economic policy is failing. They get angry and they get desperate.

I lucked out when I started to sing. I'd already experienced failing at everything else.

I think there are really serious problems in this country and I think politics in a lot of ways is failing the country.

The true self is always in motion like music, a river of life, changing, moving, failing, suffering, learning, shining.

I believe we can look forward to a more prosperous, more secure, and brighter future if we vote to leave the failing E.U. project.

I think I do have a sort of terrible propensity for boredom and for being bored, even though I am absolutely of the opinion that one shouldn't be bored and that there is no excuse for it and that it is a personal failing.

Every proposal I'm making, every idea I'm advancing has a single, central purpose: to revive a failing economy and give working Americans the help and security they need.

I'm calling for a cultural change in how we think about addiction. For far too long people have thought about addiction as a character flaw or a moral failing.

I'm just shocked and thankful that I've gotten away with everything - experimenting here, trying at this, failing at that, being good in some things, not so good in others. It's kind of amazing that people are still sticking by me. When they come up to me in the street, I just want to write them all cheques.

About the only thing that I have - or had, because it's failing me lately - is my memory. I had a really good memory. I was always terribly protective of that fact.

He turned off the freeway onto a wide commercial drive of franchised food and failing business. The

She had to have faith not just in trying but in failing. Was she strong enough to fail Was she strong enough not to

With every step forward we become more sure what the disorder is not: it is not willful misbehaving, it is not a moral failing, it is not a lack of trying nor an inability to take an interest in the world. Neurobiological data now show that the syndrome is rooted in the central nervous system.

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

Despite claims that there are good and bad cops, we know that the system is failing everyone - including the police.

Always, everywhere, the Wolves gather on the frontiers, waiting. It needs only that a man should lower his eye for a moment, and they will be in to strip the bones. Rome is failing, my children.

It's a lifelong failing: she has never been prepared. But how can you have a sense of wonder if you're prepared for everything? Prepared for the sunset. Prepared for the moonrise. Prepared for the ice storm. What a flat existence that would be.

It's a lifelong failing: she has never been prepared. But how can you have a sense of wonder if you're prepared for everything? Prepared for the sunset. Prepared for the moonrise. Prepared for the ice storm. What a flat existence that would be.

And now they say my heart is failing. The doctor used the term angina pectoris, which has a theological sound, like misericordia.

Adversity has its compensations, that in falling, and in failing, we rise. It is as if there is a hand behind us that sets to right all imbalances. Why do you think the saints seldom had the temporal power that we mistakenly identify with the fruits of justice? Do you think they needed it, or cared?

Just about every therapist or counselor or social worker is practiced in dealing with people going through failing relationships, ending them, and confronting issues of custody and support.