Fail up

This timeless quote by Nobel laureate Samuel Beckett is inspiring and simply means to learn from ones missteps, learn our lessons and get going again. 'The most important thing is to strive to move forward continually. Some days we make great progress in some areas; other days we seem to slide a bit. If we were to chart our progress on a board, it has ups and downs, but overall it should move upward as we live and learn from our mistakes and failures. This is the heart of Failing Up.' Source: The Single Greatest Secret of Leadership: 'Fail Up', from an article in Forbes Magazine

"Ever tried. Ever failed.
No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." ~ Samuel Beckett

New mantra: Fail fast

Every day that we wake up, we get another chance to get it right, to bounce back from failures big and small - to fail up.

by Dumdum November 22, 2013

thumbs up fail

When someone comments on youtube beginning with "Thumbs up if..." in an attempt to get a high rated comment, but ultimately receives no thumbs up.

"Thumbs up if Family Guy brought you here!" thumbs: 0 up, 0 down ---- thumbs up fail

by Mack Jehoff October 11, 2011

Semi fail push up

to go into a push up strong, lose willpower, then cheek plant the floor.

Ana: How's the diet going?

Hazel: Well, it's great, I lost a few pounds... but I decided to add some exercise and ended up doing a semi fail push up.

ALSO PLURAL:

Star: I went to the gym today, and started to do push ups.. it didn't really work out.

Hazel: I call those Semi fail push ups.

by FacePlant123 July 23, 2012

Hang up fail

A hang up fail is what occurs in the least opportune moments where you press the hang up button on a call but because of a laggy phone or dirty fingers the call doesn't hang up often resulting in the person on the other end of the line listening to you for a while after you hang up.

You:"okay I gotta do some stuff talk to you later" *presses hang up, sits on toilet... farts loudly*
Person STILL on the line: "I can hear you"

Hang up fail!

Or

You:"okay, talk to you later" *presses hang up button* Jesus, what an unimaginable BITCH!
Person STILL on the phone: "what the F**K?!"

Hang up fail!

by Twitchingdeadgirl August 14, 2014

fail upwards

To repeatedly get fired but consistently find a new job that are better than the one you just lost.

"She's never had a job for more than two years without geting canned and now she's a VP. I've never seen anyone fail upwards better than she does."

by Eggsocket July 9, 2009