Hope was based on the unknown, and I liked knowing things. Like that I was going to fail. Failure had better odds. — Nami Mun Copy Share Image
Measured against the scale and momentum of the Soviet empire's challenge, the Reagan administration has failed, is failing, and without a dramatic… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
And as for Mixed Mathematics, I may only make this prediction, that there cannot fail to be more kinds of them, as… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Young man, your problem and the reason so many like you fail, is simply because you allow yourself to give up far… — Chris Murray Copy Share Image
if I fail as Jamie Foxx, I'll just change my name and come back as something else. — Jamie Foxx Copy Share Image
There's so much going on today. I continually hear, sometimes from artists, that everything's done. It's been done. I fail to see… — Edward Ruscha Copy Share Image
Everything Tolstoy wrote is precious, but I found this final statement of the truth about life as he had come to understand… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, they develop a fixed mindset that they're the most talented, and they think that continued success is a right. Problems arise… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
Everybody else is afraid to fail. I do not really care because when I fail, I try something new. — Vinod Khosla Copy Share Image
The departure of our boys to foreign parts with the ever-present possibility that they might never return, taught the real value of… — Louis Fabian Bachrach, Jr Copy Share Image
“This new war, like the previous one, would be a test of the power of machines against people and places; whatever its… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
For the Jesus Revolutionaries, the answer was clear: Jesus would not be out waging "preventative" wars. Jesus would not be withholding medicine… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Half of our sorrows come from setting exalted standards for people and then breaking our hearts when they fail to live up… — Alice Hegan Rice Copy Share Image
Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger until have accomplished a… — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
This is the world we live in, a world of safety and happiness and order, a world without love. A world where… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
It's only through effort that we learn what an idea actually is, and if our passion for it will last or fade.… — Scott Berkun Copy Share Image
Start with the foreground. Compositions fail when the foreground is treated as an afterthought. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Even if you follow other people's advice and model successful people and their blueprints, you will still fail if you don't have… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I've remembered that most of life is about small, essential connections, so unobtrusive, so elastic, that you scarcely realize they're actually holding… — Sharon Shinn Copy Share Image
The first step in fixing a broken program is getting it to fail repeatably [on the simplest example possible]. — Tom Duff Copy Share Image
Whenever you see me somewhere succeeding in one area of my life, that almost certainly means I am failing in another area… — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
To this day, I fondly recall the challenges of building a fire, pitching a tent, climbing a New England mountain, canoeing on… — Michael Eisner Copy Share Image
For you to be successful, sacrifices must be made. It's better that they are made by others but failing that, you'll have… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
It's quite frightening; the business of trying to be funny is very hairy. In comedy, the potential for humiliation is huge. Trying… — Emily Mortimer Copy Share Image
In a highly critical, scarcity-based world, everyone's afraid to fail. — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
