As to the human race. There are many pretty and winning things about the human race. It is perhaps the poorest of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If you are not failing now and again, its a sign you are not doing anything very innovative — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
The reason so many individuals fail to achieve their goals in life is that they never really set them in the first… — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
The major difference I've found between the highly successful and the least successful is that the highly successful stick to it. They… — Sherry Lansing Copy Share Image
Columbia is ... for people whose genitals still work, dammit. For writers who want to be brave and persevere in the real… — Scott Kenemore Copy Share Image
Our century is probably more religious than any other. How could it fail to be, with such problems to be solved? The… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Im really bad at tests of any kind, so Im bad at auditions. I consider myself educated most of the time, but… — Brady Corbet Copy Share Image
“And because our reason violently deters us from the brink, therefore, do we the more impetuously approach it. There is no passion… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
We don't want to be wounds ("No, you're the wound!") but we should be allowed to have them, to speak about having… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
... I never will allow myself to form an ideal of any person I desire to see, for disappointment never fails to ensue. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
If you believe in the maternal instinct and fail at mother love, you fail as a woman. It is a controlling idea… — Nancy Friday Copy Share Image
God's word is: 'He who strives never perishes.' I have implicit faith in that promise. Though, therefore, from my weakness I fail… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Nobody wants to worship you if you have the same problems, the same bad breath and messy hair and hangnails, as a… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Even death itself sometimes fails to bring the dignity and serenity which one would fain associate with old age. — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
I fail all the time, but we are all just human and imperfect, but you know what's best for you, so follow… — Chris Wyse Copy Share Image
Leadership is scarce because few people are willing to go through the discomfort required to lead. This scarcity makes leadership valuable...It's uncomfortable… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
There are some people upon whom their very faults and failings sit gracefully; and there are others whose very excellencies and accomplishments… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
One of the great failings of our education system is that we tend to focus on those who are succeeding in exams,… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
A movement election is a different type of election. It's an election where the people start moving into a direction because they… — Laura Ingraham Copy Share Image
We went to the moon using just Newton's laws of motion and gravity. Newtonian dynamics we call it. So then we find… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Our spiritual immutarity never shows up more than in our lack of praying, be it alone or in a church prayer meeting.… — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
I think that we ill-prepare athletes from the very beginning. From the moment they pick up a ball or kick or whatever… — John Amaechi Copy Share Image
You want people to take risks, and OK, they fail, but you don't get the great stuff unless people are willing to… — Bjork Copy Share Image
Any time you try to create an Internet meme, automatic fail. That's like the worst thing you can do. — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
