Quotation Explorer - 'Fails'

Goodness is the only investment that never fails. - Henry David Thoreau
Imagination only fails us in the end, when the stories we tell ourselves have to stop. - Joy Williams
Saying of the Prophet.Lies, promises, trustHe is not of mine who lies, breaks a promise or fails in his trust. - Idries Shah
Intellect takes us along in the battle of life to a certain limit, but at the crucial moment it fails us. Faith transcends reason. It is when the horizon is the darkest and human reason is beaten down to the ground that faith shines brightest and comes to our rescue. - Mahatma Gandhi
Reason is an outcome of frailty and resentment. When Will fails to cope with the labour of life, or the life of labour, its fragile remnants are set to construct a slighter world of justifications. - Raheel Farooq
A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong. - Edgar Allan Poe
He who fails to achieve a dream set by himself is more honorable than he who succeeds in achieving a dream set by his society. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Change almost never fails because it's too early. It almost always fails because it's too late. - Seth Godin
When imagination fails, compassion and humaneness dwindle and atrophy along with it. Unleavened by imagination, the variety and richness of life turn into flat abstractions; people become objects to be manipulated -- with the social consequences we know all too well. - Lloyd Alexander
Justice fails because victims used to be too kind and criminals too clever. - M.F. Moonzajer
When you fail, get hurt, feel bad, but act on it! Everybody fails, but the ones who act are the ones who change the world! - Vishwas Mudagal
The man unwilling to brave the test has already shown himself to be much more craven than the man who fails. - Brandon Mull
Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward towards success. - C.S. Lewis
Human strength fails, but the divinity within strength en the soul. - Lailah Gifty Akita
When one person of whole nation fails to achieve his set goals, it influence the whole country.. That is why most of the countries are victim of terrorism, theft, snatching and etcetera - Faisal Nawaz Maitlo
Many a man fails to become a thinker for the sole reason that his memory is too good.-F. Nietzsche - F, Nietzsche
Planning is the key to success, course he who fails to plan has actually plan to fail - david ibeyeomie
As a writer one either fails or never begins. - Marty Rubin
Human beings are the only creatures who are allowed to fail. If an ant fails, it's dead. But we're allowed to learn from our mistakes and from our failures. And that's how I learn, by falling flat on my face and picking myself up and starting all over again. - Madeleine L'Engle
The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, they finish by loading honors on your head. - Jean Cocteau
If truth does not lead to falling in love, it fails. - John Piper
Unlike a variety of other relationships,friendship requires an acknowledgement by both parties that they are involved or it fails to exist. - Andrew Sullivan
I f he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat. - Theodore Roosevelt
The reason God never fails is because he fears to fail - adelaja precious
your lack of hard work fails your destiny and not the destiny fails you. - irrfan ishaq
Love never fails. Character never quits. And with patience and persistence, dreams do come true - Pete Maravich
A man who does not question his own judgment, society, and who flourishes between deceit and bewilderment, fails his moral responsibility as a rational being. - Duop Chak Wuol
The law is the anchor of our feelings. If the law holds our feelings well, it directs our feelings well. If however, the laws fails to hold our feelings well, our feelings become free enough for us to do what we feel freely - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
The only time someone fails in life is when they fail to try at all - M. James Airey
Violence begins when imagination fails. - Stephen Evans
A true lover never fails, a failure never can love. - Debasish Mridha
While art should never become exclusionary and elitist, any culture which fails to support its artists is only contributing to its own impoverishment. (Beyond Religion, p. 122) - David N. Elkins
There would be a lot less broken hearts when a relationship fails, if people would understand there’s no reason to want someone that doesn’t want you. Never allow yourself to feel half empty, when you deserve a relationship that will fill your heart with happiness. - Ron Baratono
Wealth seldom fails to breed the fear of poverty. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The only thing worse than a Mexican Stand Off is a Peace Pact that Fails! - Stanley Victor Paskavich
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment. - Thomas Jefferson
Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure. - Seneca
Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure. - Kenneth E. Boulding
One Fails Before One's Perception...! - Rishi Sethi
Oft expectation fails, and most oft where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest; and despair most sits. - William Shakespeare
Human strength fails, but the divinity within strengthen the soul. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Time and Patience they both test each other. One fails other takes over.... - Sagar Gosavi
If the ego rules you then the love fails you. - Akash B Chandran
Never fails. Every new book I write seems impossible, writes like I'm typing from dictation, edits like I didn't write it, and finishes like I couldn't possibly have written it. - Kris Rafferty
For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it.
Democracy is not something that you believe in, or something that you hang your hat on. It's something that you do, you participate. Without participation, democracy crumbles and fails. If you participate, you win, and the future is yours. - Abbie Hoffman
When all else fails, there's always delusion. - Conan O'Brien
We can be the very first generation which fails to see the logic or pride in defining ourselves by anything else but what is found within ourselves: our values - Akilnathan Logeswaran
There will be a time when loud-mouthed, incompetent people seem to be getting the best of you. When that happens, you only have to be patient and wait for them to self destruct. It never fails. - Richard Rybolt
There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere. - Jane Austen
If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error. - John Kenneth Galbraith
The proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will do more execution than a whole barrel of gunpowder idly exploded in the air.
Never get tired of dreaming no matter how failed you got. the more you fails the more it gets you wiser the more you will achieve what you're hoping for ...... Be positive - rahul kushwaha
In order to stay happy, You must learn from your wins and fails and accept all things that come your way as they are. - Auliq Ice
When you are setting yourself up for success, above all put on love, because love never fails and with one-size-fits-all solution to every situation you will ever encounter. - Joo Lian Carter
Minimalism is a girl's best asset, blend tones, smudge hard outlines; if all else fails; Photoshop it. - Judith Chambers
One Fails Before One Perception...! - Rishi Sethi
A business fails when motive becomes more important than the trust. - Thiruman Archunan
The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
Epic fails are just dramatic pauses to build up intensity of epic awesomeness emerging. - Janna Cachola
When you look at the external reality, you may assume you know everything, but when you close your eyes and try to look into the darkness of your internal reality, all the knowledge of the external life fails to create a way out of the darkness. - Roshan Sharma
The injured captain, lying in the bow, was at this time buried in that profound dejection and indifference which comes, temporarily at least, toeven the bravest and most enduring when, willy nilly, the firm fails, the army loses, the ship goes down. - Stephen Crane
When thoughts fails of words, they find imagination waiting at their elbow to teach a new language without words.
Organized Christianity that fails to make a disturbance is dead. - G. Campbell Morgan
Passion never fails.... - Stephen Rayment
We should not fail to hide our love for the one who fails to hide hatred - Munia Khan
My flute, M. Poirot, is my oldest companion. When everything else fails, music remains. - Agatha Christie
When a change management fails, leadership change is brought in. A leadership change will always bring in change management - Peter M Senge
God endlessly fails to extend his blessings. That is because he no longer sits on the throne. - Lionel Suggs
In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not D.N.A.
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment. - George Santayana
The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is a human owl, vigilant in darkness, and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game. - Henry Ward Beecher
Those who never trial, never fails. - Lailah Gifty Akita
when the democrats choose not to be democratic, democracy fails to be democratic. - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Society does not judge those it admires, they are deified. Yet it so eagerly burn those it fails to understand - Ole H.
When a plan fails, it does not mean we have failed. It just means we need a new plan. - Jenna Alatari
Respect fails before love - Grant Walker
War is what happens when language fails. - Margaret Atwood
Love never fails but people fails in how to love-Jesus never fails - tirumala
Few teams sometimes fails miserably because team members wish to work in the team but they want to be recognized individualy. - Amit Kalantri
If justice fails in the courtroom, it will not prevail in society.A broken Justice System does not protect the rights of all people. - Ellen J. Barrier
We need to protect and care for our children because when society fails to protect its children, there will be no one else to learn from. - Gugu Mona
He who can, can...He who cannot, cannot...But, He who can and will not, Fails. - DANNY KURIAN
You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do. - Norman Douglas
Words cant explain everything.But silence never fails to mean something - Anonymous
Love cost its like working a full time job you got to put work and effort into it,and that's why it fails with a lot of people because they on the job part time !!! #GeminiStatus - jojo1980
When today fails to offer the justification for hope, tomorrow becomes the only grail worth pursuing. - Christopher Bigsby
A father is a man who fails every day. - Michael Chabon
Love can bless you with a sense of purpose and direction when all else fails. Because to have faith in love is to be optimistic about life. Love is hopefulness. - Kamand Kojouri
In reality, though, the first thing to ask of history is that it should pointout to us the paths of liberty. The great lesson to draw from revolutions isnot that they devour humanity but rather that tyranny never fails to generatethem. - Pierre Trudeau
If a man does not work passionately - even furiously - at being the best in the world at what he does, he fails his talent, his destiny, and his God. - George Lois
For every question, there is an answer. Where everybody fails is by asking the wrong question. - Richard Diaz
Oft expectations fails, and most oft there Where most it promises; and oft it hits Where hope is coldest, and despair most fits. - William Shakespeare
When all else fails, stare straight into the sun. - Marty Rubin
One suffers in silence so long as one has the strength and when that strength fails one speaks without measuring one's words much. - Charlotte Brontë
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. - Franklin D. Roosevelt
When you work under the cloud of anxiety, the best strategy is to play it safe, because if (when!) it fails, you’ll be blameless. - Seth Godin
Is God satisfied with you or could it be that God looks at you and fails to see a man, only a bunch of flesh Full of self, and missing out on the purpose for his or her creation? What does God see, think and feel when he looks at you? - Sunday Adelaja
Words fail me, but not feeling. The feeling never fails me. - Marty Rubin
Hard work beats talent when talent fails to work hard. - Kevin Durant
It’s not about money or connections it’s the willingness to outwork and out-learn everyone… And if it fails, you learn from what happened and do a better job next time - Mark Cuban
Nothing fails like success. - Gerald Nachman
If one has made a mistake, and fails to correct it, one has made a greater mistake. - Plato
If all else fails, we then factor (fall) into our equation. And pray hard, someone factors (catching us) into theirs. - Noor Iskandar
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