Fail Quotes

I've always thought tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But to refuse the test is to refuse the gift, and something worse, more irrevocable, than misfortune.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them must share the guilt for the dead.

Omar Bradley

Everyone's talked about Bank of America and Citigroup and the rest being too big to fail, but no, no, no. The most important point...is that the US must be perceived to be too big to fail.

Ian Bremmer

I have promised the Tunisian people that the French army will go, If I fail, I will be swept away.

Habib Bourguiba

And yet in a way I would rather fail point blank. Things one can do have no value. I don't mind feeling small myself, but I dread finding the world is.

Elizabeth Bowen

Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

John Burroughs

Others may doubt us. They may criticize us. They may try to deny us what is rightfully ours. But they will fail. And I promise you, as long as I am mayor, I will never back away from fighting any opponent -- or confronting any obstacle -- that would prevent our people from achieving all of their dreams in Our New York.

Michael Bloomberg

In the hope of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.

Albert Schweitzer

The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we as teachers have failed.

Marva Collins

Where words fail, music speaks.

Hans Christian Andersen

There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation

Herbert Spencer

Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.

Anthony Robbins

So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

W. Clement Stone

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is to -- act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande