Every failure teaches a man something, to wit, that he will probably fail again. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
How would you feel about sharing your bed?" she asked. Tristan blinked. "Excuse me?" "He'd love to!" Gary said. Tristan shot him… — Elizabeth Chandler Copy Share Image
What after all, has maintained the human race on this old globe despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
coincident with the explosive growth of research, the art of writing science suffered a grave setback, and the stultifying convention descended that… — David Mermin Copy Share Image
Arrogance is a weed which grows upon a dunghill; it is from the rankness of the soil that she has her height… — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
The people who are good in the long run fail a lot, especially at the beginning. So, when you fail early, it… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
“I ask to become a faery because I love a faery queen, and because she deserves to have someone who loves her… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Foreign policy is like hitting a baseball: if you fail 70 percent of the time, you go to the Hall of Fame.” — Robert Kagan Copy Share Image
I can not wish you success in your effort to reject the treaty because while it may win the fight it may… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
One desire has been the ruling passion of my life. One high motive has acted like a spur upon my mind and… — Abraham Kuyper Copy Share Image
When all else fails the liberals call you names or attack your personality. — Herman Cain Copy Share Image
I've often met people who are terrified, you know, in a straight jacket of their own making because they'd rather do anything… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Pursue something so important that even if you fail, the world is better off with you having tried. — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Whatever flaws or personal failings afflict them, it remains the case that the overwhelming majority of priests and politicians are honourable and… — Keith O'Brien Copy Share Image
Because Jesus was strong for me, I am free to be weak; because Jesus won for me, I am free to lose;… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
People can pass thirty nights in dancing and no one complains about it, but if they watch through a single Christmas night… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
One would have thought that it was even more necessary to limit population than property; and that the limit should be fixed… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I can think of nothing more gallant, even though again and again we fail, than attempting to get at the facts; attempting… — Peter Viereck Copy Share Image
Competing companies evolve toward efficiency as the more efficient ones profit and expand while those who fall behind fail. And companies being… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
When they [visitors to his studio:] learn about the six-week daily-strip deadline and the 12-week Sunday-page deadline, a visitor almost never fails… — Charles M. Schulz Copy Share Image
Solitude is so necessary both for society and for the individual that when society fails to provide sufficient solitude to develop the… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
That's the whole key to anything: Don't be afraid to fail. And is not afraid to fail. — Bernie Mac Copy Share Image
A word can be transformed into a coulour, light, a smell; it is the writer's task to use it in such a… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
There is no real reason to fail a child," "Once children start failing, they begin to believe that they can't do anything.… — William Glasser Copy Share Image
We need to build on what we know works - local oversight of schools to keep a check on performance, timely interventions… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
Whether it was turning around failing companies, rescuing the Olympics, or improving the business climate in Massachusetts, Mitt Romney has proven that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Time would fail me were I to try to lay before you in order all the passages in the Holy Scriptures which… — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
Our citizens and those who have gone before us charted the broad outlines of where we need to go, and they would… — Dave Freudenthal Copy Share Image
“In the land of Ingary, where such things as seven-league boots and cloaks of invisibility really exist, it is quite a misfortune… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing. — Plotinus Copy Share Image
The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
You should treat your marriage like a business that you wouldn't want to let fail. — Lisa Ling Copy Share Image
I'd been shy since childhood, constantly full of self-doubt. And as an actor, I'd been so scared of failing that I made… — Emily Mortimer Copy Share Image
To seek visions, to dream dreams, is essential, and it is also essential to try new ways of living, to make room… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Strength of my heart, I need not fail, Not mind to fear but to obey, With such a Leader, who could quail?… — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
Here when the labouring fish does at the foot arrive, And finds that by his strength but vainly he doth strive; His… — Michael Drayton Copy Share Image