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Failing to plan is planning to fail. -- Alan Lakein
Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led. -- Warren Bennis
Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th. -- Julie Andrews
Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes. -- George Soros
Failing is another stepping-stone to greatness. -- Oprah Winfrey
Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led. -- Warren Bennis
Failing to prepare is preparing to fail. -- John Wooden
Failing doesn't have to mean not succeeding, -- Astro Teller
Failing isn't bad when you learn what not to do. -- Albert Einstein
Failing is not a problem. Not trying is a problem. -- Jay Maisel
Failing is not real, it's an optional state of mind. -- Behdad Sami
We Have Medicalized Aging, and That Experiment Is Failing Us -- Atul Gawande
Trying is fine. Failing is inevitable. Don't let it devour you. -- Michelle Sagara
Failing to win is not important, but failing to participate is. -- Debasish Mridha
Failing is an event, not a person. Yesterday ended last night. -- Zig Ziglar
Failing is not the worst thing in the world; quitting is -- Edwin Louis Cole
Failing to hold someone accountable is ultimately an act of selfishness. -- Patrick Lencioni
Failing to plan means planning to fail. What are your goals? -- Brian Tracy
Learning to fail is a virtue. Failing to learn is a sin. -- Paul Sloane
Making an honest mistake is acceptable. Failing to fix it is not. -- Ron Kaufman
Gwen Cassidy needed a man. Desperately. Failing that, she'd settle for a cigarette. -- Karen Marie Moning
Failing to graduate a populace that values reading has long-term consequences for everyone. -- Donalyn Miller
Failing to remember is the primary reason for most performers' poor practising habits. -- Howard Snell
The best time to start was last year. Failing that, today will do. -- Chris Guillebeau
The Up Side of Down: Why Failing Well Is the Key to Success. -- Megan McArdle
Failing and laughing at your own shortcomings are the hallmarks of a sane parent. -- Jim Gaffigan
Failing my driving test first time; that was a disappointment on a geological scale. -- Richard Hammond
Failing is not a disgrace unless you make it the last chapter of your book. -- Jack Hyles
Failing to understand the workings of one's own mind is bound to lead to unhappiness. -- Marcus Aurelius
Failing is what we do, or stumbling is what we do on a daily basis. -- Sandra Bullock
Failing to grapple with complexity actually turns out to be a pretty bad life strategy. -- John Green
Failing to continue to support the public higher-ed system in California will have devastating long-term consequences. -- Mitch Kapor
It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world. -- Charles Kettering
Sailing to an island unknown Failing to find your way home you walk under a sea leagues beneath us -- Maggie Stiefvater
Failing can provide invaluable lessons and making mistakes and experiencing setbacks is part of the DNA of every successful entrepreneur. -- Richard Branson
Failing doesn't have to mean not succeeding. It can be, 'Hey we tried that. We can go forward, smarter.' -- Astro Teller
Failing to fetch me at first, keep encouraged. Missing me one place, search another. I stop somewhere waiting for you. -- Walt Whitman
Failing, and learning from it, is necessary. Unil you've done it, you're missing an important piece of your creative arsenal. -- Twyla Tharp
Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience. -- Michael Eisner
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If something doesnt feel normal to me, it must be wrong. Failing to have a shred of imaginative empathy is a virtue! -- Gavin McInnes
Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want her. -- Pope Paul VI
The best thing that would happen is for Facebook to open up its data. Failing that, there are other ways to get that information, -- Eric Schmidt
Failing forward is the ability to get back up after you've been knocked down, learn from your mistake, and move forward in a better direction. -- John C. Maxwell
Failing conventionally is the route to go; as a group, lemmings may have a rotten image, but no individual lemming has ever received bad press -- Warren Buffett
Failing sucks. But it's better than the alternative." "Which is?" "Not even trying." Now he did look at me, straight on. "Life's short, you know? -- Sarah Dessen
There is a difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn't work. Failure is throwing in the towel and giving up. -- Jay Samit
Failing is a judgment that we humans place on a given action. Rather than judgment, substitute this attitude: You cannot fail, you can only produce results. -- Wayne Dyer
Failing to open the center at the right moment - a common error by White in the Exchange Lopez - can allow Black an excellent game. -- Andrew Soltis
Failing to find in women exactly the same kind of sexual emotions, as they find in themselves, men have concluded that there are none there at all. -- Havelock Ellis
With the best of intentions you toss me a lifeline. Failing to see how a piece of rope will do me any good, I ignore it and drown. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
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The ideal view for daily writing, hour for hour, is the blank brick wall of a cold-storage warehouse. Failing this, a stretch of sky will do, cloudless if possible. -- Edna Ferber
Failing to make it to the list of the best 5 students in class or not being named the team captain should not make anyone feel like they have failed. -- Stephen Richards
Confidence - Poise and confidence are not possible unless you have prepared correctly. Failing to prepare is preparing to fail. Poise and confidence are a natural result of proper preparation. -- John Wooden
According to the food waste pyramid, ensuring that food is eaten by people is the top priority. Failing that, the next best thing is to feed it to farm animals. -- Tristram Stuart
According to the 'food waste pyramid,' ensuring that food is eaten by people is the top priority. Failing that, the next best thing is to feed it to farm animals. -- Tristram Stuart
We will all fail in life, but nobody has to be a failure. Failing at a thing doesn't make you a failure. You are only a failure when you quit trying. -- Joyce Meyer
You are going to fail, and failing, for me, is as joyful as succeeding. Failing means that there is something to learn, and we can improve and do it better next time. -- Sebastian Thrun
Let's all commit ourselves to the basic civility of minding our own business. Failing that, let's go back to a time when we were nasty and judgmental, but only behind one another's backs. -- Ayelet Waldman
Success is a poor teacher. We learn the most about ourselves when we fail, so don't be afraid of failing. Failing is part of the process of success. You cannot have success without failure. -- Robert Kiyosaki
You must not end your life because you failed an examination. Failing an examination or making a mistake does not make you a failure at life. The context of life is broader than that. -- Archibald Marwizi
Learn how to fail intelligently. -- Charles Kettering
Men are born to succeed, not to fail. -- Henry David Thoreau
If you're not failing, you're not trying anything. -- Woody Allen
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. -- Benjamin Franklin
Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly. -- John F. Kennedy
Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail. -- Charles Kettering
An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail. -- Edwin Land
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better. -- Samuel Beckett
I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure. -- Anne Baxter
I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong. -- Benjamin Franklin
I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying. -- Michael Jordan
It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. -- Beverly Sills
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative. -- Woody Allen
A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. -- John Burroughs
Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself. -- Franz Grillparzer
Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful. -- Margaret J. Wheatley
Men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed. -- Lloyd Jones
Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave. -- Mary Tyler Moore
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day. -- Jim Rohn
I have never met a successful person who talked about failing. The glass is always half full. I don't even like being around negative talkers. -- Sir Mix-a-Lot
The streets and alleys of the ward were notoriously filthy, and the contractors habitually neglected them, not failing, however, to draw their regular payments from the city treasury. -- Ray Stannard Baker
Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach. -- Roger von Oech
Everyone is your best friend when you are successful. Make sure that the people that you surround yourself with are also the people that you are not afraid of failing with. -- Paula Abdul
To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us. -- Charles Caleb Colton
It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default. -- J. K. Rowling
I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions... the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast. -- Colin Firth
It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default. -- J. K. Rowling
One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king. -- Abraham Maslow
Men are destroyed for being rebellious, and women destroy themselves by failing to be rebellious. Unless you can make that next jump to either getting along with people or resisting people, you are ultimately destroying yourself. -- Chuck Palahniuk
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. -- Kenneth Lonergan
Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it. -- Oprah Winfrey
The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work. -- Charles Kettering
Business and growing jobs is about taking risk, sometimes failing, sometimes succeeding, but always striving. It is about dreams. Usually, it doesn't work out exactly as you might have imagined. Steve Jobs was fired at Apple. He came back and changed the world. -- Mitt Romney
I come from playing sports. I compete, so I gotta be better than I was last year. I gotta get better, and that better gotta come from just growing. From learning new stuff to working on it, experience it in life, and failing. -- Common
In a way, a lot of my humor comes from presenting things that are dramatic or shocking and then people not having socially appropriate responses, having people denying the drama by failing to react to it, and that's a really classic form of humor. -- Chuck Palahniuk
The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds. -- R. D. Laing
No human ever became interesting by not failing. The more you fail and recover and improve, the better you are as a person. Ever meet someone who's always had everything work out for them with zero struggle? They usually have the depth of a puddle. Or they don't exist. -- Chris Hardwick
I think some parents now look at a youngster failing as the final thing. It's a process, and failure is part of the process. I would like it if the teacher and the parents would connect more. I think that used to be, but we're losing a little bit of that right now. -- Mike Krzyzewski
I think the problem is that there has been a kind of backlash against feminism. I think women just didn't really see themselves winning that fight, and I think that probably led to a lot women feeling trapped in a perpetual cycle of disappointment - trying to be feminists and failing to be. -- Romola Garai
We are raising today's children in sterile, risk-averse and highly structured environments. In so doing, we are failing to cultivate artists, pioneers and entrepreneurs, and instead cultivating a generation of children who can follow the rules in organized sports games, sit for hours in front of screens and mark bubbles on standardized tests. -- Darell Hammond
Drama's not safe and it's not pretty and it's not kind. People expect the basic template of television drama where there might be naughty villains, but everyone ends up having a nice cup of tea. You've got to do big moral choices and show the terrible things people do in terrible situations. Drama is failing if it doesn't do that. -- Russell T Davies
I write about the power of trying, because I want to be okay with failing. I write about generosity because I battle selfishness. I write about joy because I know sorrow. I write about faith because I almost lost mine, and I know what it is to be broken and in need of redemption. I write about gratitude because I am thankful - for all of it. -- Kristin Armstrong
Half of the modern world goes back as far as Pearl Jam. The real historians go back to U2. But they need to go back further. They have to go back to the '50s and '60s, where things started. That's how you get to be your own personality, by studying the masters. Rock and roll was white kids trying to make black music and failing, gloriously! -- Steven Van Zandt
Stop thinking of failing. -- Benjamin Carson
Trying is failing with honor -- James Arthur Ray
The fearful are the failing. -- Sarah Josepha Hale
Remember. Or, failing that, invent. -- Monique Wittig
I like movies about failing. -- Albert Brooks
I don't like failing at anything. -- Liam McIntyre
It is failing the American people miserably. -- Peter DeFazio
Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools. -- Alexander Pope
If you aren't failing, you aren't trying. -- Woody Allen
Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th. -- Julie Andrews
I don't believe in failing. I have dignity. -- Alejandro Jodorowsky
Youth is a failing only too easily outgrown. -- Agatha Christie
If you arent focused on success, youre failing. -- Ray Torres

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