Top 1200 Moral Failure Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

The only real failure is the failure to try.

People who try to tackle failure attract failure. The more you indulge in analysis, it gets tougher. So just keep making mistakes and learn.

Autocratic power requires the degradation of moral authority - not the capture of moral high ground.

There is no failure except failure to serve one's purpose.

High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.

Failure is built into creativity... the creative act involves this element of 'newness' and 'experimentalism,' then one must expect and accept the possibility of failure.

The only true failure is failure to try.

For me, nonviolence was not a moral principle but a strategy; there is no moral goodness in using an ineffective weapon.

By "moral discipline," I mean self-discipline based on moral standards. Moral discipline is the consistent exercise of agency to choose the right because it is right, even when it is hard. It rejects the self-absorbed life in favor of developing character worthy of respect and true greatness through Christlike service.

It is of note that for a long time moral nihilism was a kind of unquestioned default position in analytic moral philosophy.

Learning is about failure and recovery from failure.

Leaders can be moral-and they should be moral-without imposing their morality on others.

I think it's a really admirable thing to be very sure of your own moral code and not waver from that. If you're sure of your moral code, your moral code is personal. Something that I admire about my TV character is being unapologetic and knowing who she is. That was empowering to play.

The failure of Obamacare, I think, rests solely on the shoulders of Democrats. They created the program. They pushed it through. They made this legislation happen, and they need to own the failure of it.

Artists know failure. It is not tragic that they know failure; it is only tragic if they know failure and little else.

In the West, they have morality. We pretend to be moral people but we are not. We do not have a moral code.

Force cannot transmit a moral principle: moral ideas can be received only through the reason of the heart.

Selfishness is the bedrock on which all moral behavior starts and it can be immoral only when it conflicts with a higher moral imperative.

My father really set the tone for us to be a more moral nation, to take a moral high ground in everything that we do.

We are naturally moral beings, but our environments can enhance - or, sadly, degrade - this innate moral sense.

With the American failure came world failure.

There is no such thing as a moral dress. It's people who are moral or immoral.

[nonviolence] seeks to secure moral ends through moral means.

Science is fundamentally a moral enterprise, following the moral imperative to seek the truth.

On devient moral de' s qu'on est malheureux. We become moral once we are miserable.

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.

Failure is not to be feared. It is from failure that most growth comes.

The cult of moral grayness is a revolt against moral values.

Without God and religion you don't have moral truth, you have moral opinion

If we look at our attitudes consistently and work out the logical implications we're on the road to moral progress, moral understanding.

True knowledge gives a moral standing and moral strength.

We must acknowledge, of course, that what looks like failure to us Americans outside the privileged elite may not actually be failure for our overlords.

You know what I think about violence. For me it is profoundly moral -more moral than compromises and transactions.

Every one on this earth should believe, amid whatever madness or moral failure, that his life and temperament have some object on the earth. Every one on the earth should believe that he has something to give to the world which cannot otherwise be given.

The only failure is the failure to learn from conscious and deliberate efforts to make things better, even if those attempts fall short of the mark.

There's no moral issue for me. I did the best science I could. I was struggling to survive and didn't have the luxury of being a moral creature.

I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.

I'm terrorized by a fear of failure. Failure is always there.

The TV scientist who mutters sadly, "The experiment is a failure; we have failed to achieve what we had hoped for," is suffering mainly from a bad script writer. An experiment is never a failure solely because it fails to achieve predicted results. An experiment is a failure only when it also fails adequately to test the hypothesis in question, when the data it produces don't prove anything one way or another.

A failure isn't a failure if it prepares you for success tomorrow.

I hate failure and that divorce was a Number One failure in my eyes. It was the worst period of my life. Neither Desi nor I have been the same since, physically or mentally.

Moral result can only be produced by moral restraints.

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

Well, the idea is that failure is an inevitable partner on the road to success and, if you're not willing to confront failure, you can never find out how good you are.

The true confessors have been aware that not only is life mostly failure, but that in one's failure or pettiness or wrongness exists the living drama of the self.

States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Contemporary moral philosophy has found an original way of being boring, which is by not discussing moral issues at all.

I look at the most promising putative moral theories. I construct crucial thought experiments in areas where they give conflicting advice. I confront their conflicting advice with my own moral sensitivity, my moral intuition. I take the theory that can best explain the content of my intuitions as gaining inductive support through an inference to the best explanation.

Legality alone is no guide for a moral people. There are many things in this world that have been, or are, legal but clearly immoral. Slavery was legal. Did that make it moral? South Africa’s apartheid, Nazi persecution of Jews, and Stalinist and Maoist purges were all legal, but did that make them moral?

The objections to religion are of two sorts - intellectual and moral. The intellectual objection is that there is no reason to suppose any religion true; the moral objection is that religious precepts date from a time when men were more cruel than they are and therefore tend to perpetuate inhumanities which the moral conscience of the age would otherwise outgrow.

Failure isn't failure unless you just stop with that.

Bitterness is a greater failure than failure.

A tension has always existed between the capitalist imperative to maximize efficiency at any cost and the moral imperatives of culture, which historically have served as a counterweight to the moral blindness of the market. This is another example of the cultural contradictions of capitalism - the tendency over time for the economic impulse to erode the moral underpinnings of society. Mercy toward the animals in our care is one such casualty.

Failure hurts pretty bad. But when you got good people around you they remind you that failure is actually just a lesson. It's how not to walk so you don't fall again.

Vietnam was a palpable failure. And of course, in retrospect, it was even more clearly a disaster and a failure than maybe people understood at the time.

The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments.

Don't stay in a bad situation - whether it is a relationship or a job - out of fear of failure. It's not a failure to walk away and choose to be happy. It takes a lot of courage.

I train so hard to make sure failure doesn't happen. If I do everything I can, and run as fast as I possibly can and someone still beats me, I don't think of that as failure.

The power of fear of failure, with will to win, is an incredible force. I don't think we should be worried about having a fear of failure; I think it's quite natural. If you surveyed any top businessman or any top athlete, I bet if they were truthful, they would all say they've got a fear of losing and a fear of failure.