A modest person seldom fails to gain the goodwill of those he converses with, because nobody envies a man who does not… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
It is a very common failing, never to be pleased with our fortune nor displeased with our character. — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
If we fail to interest, whether because we are dull and heavy, or because our hearers are so, we teach in vain. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
I've heard all my life that 'this is impossible, you can't make' it and 'you're going to fail' but I didn't listen… — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
If you feel like you're in control of everything, and then things aren't going well, you feel like you're failing. — Tracy Letts Copy Share Image
People fail you, children disappoint you, thieves break in, moths corrupt, but an Order of the British Empire goes on for ever. — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
When there is no feeling of accomplishment, children fail to develop properly and old people rapidly decline. — Joe Whitney Copy Share Image
Our future is like that of the passengers on a small pleasure boat sailing quietly above the Niagara Falls, not knowing that… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
All change requires effort and sacrifice. Sometimes action plans fail because they are based on the idea that there is a 'magic… — Alan Carr Copy Share Image
The best lessons are usually learned from failure. You musn't beat yourself up if you fail - just pick yourself up, learn… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
But if you look at the big scheme of things, I have never failed, regardless of anything I have had to go… — Terrell Owens Copy Share Image
You can have the most advanced and efflorescent cultures. Get your politics wrong, however, and everything stands to be swept away. This… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Not everyone knows how to be silent or to leave in good time. It happens that even people of good breeding fail… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
To be a tourist is to escape accountability. Errors and failings don't cling to you the way they do back home. You're… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The LORD will guide you always; he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land and will strengthen your frame. You will… — Isaiah Copy Share Image
If you FAIL, never give up because F.A.I.L. means "First Attempt in Learning". END is not the end; in fact E.N.D. means… — Abdul Kalam Copy Share Image
The preservation of the Jew was certainly not casual. He has endured through the power of a certain ideal, based on the… — Cecil Roth Copy Share Image
Pat Buchanan... was fired by MSNBC for doing nothing more than voicing his rock-solid conservative thoughts on the otherwise failing network... The… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
The great virtue of a diversified food economy, like a diverse pasture or farm, is its ability to withstand any shock. The… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
If we fail to realize our full potential as human beings, we live more on an animalistic level. This is fine for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But I am all for love, and I am against marriage, particularly the arranged kind, because the arranged marriage gives you satisfaction.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Without fail, every cartoonist that I asked advice from bent over backward to be helpful and encouraging. It took many forms: some… — Adrian Tomine Copy Share Image
The metaphor I routinely use is polar bears in the Sahara desert. You take creatures adapted to the cold and put them… — David Katz Copy Share Image
In my little world, I'm very protected 'cause I'm treated like the idiot I am by my buddies. But, a little bit… — Devendra Banhart Copy Share Image
Of all the things you can spend a lot of money on, the only things you expect to fail frequently are software… — Jaron Lanier 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
God! how is it that we fail to recognize that the mask of pleasure, stripped of all hypocrisy, is that of anguish? — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
I think people fail to realize that teams and organizations have been stacking teams since way back in the day. — Carmelo Anthony Copy Share Image
Age is just a number, and your talent will never fail you. It has no expiry date. — Madhuri Dixit Copy Share Image
Shall I crack any of those old jokes, master, At which the audience never fail to laugh? — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must prevail, though we erring mortals may fail to accurately perceive them in advance. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Because I'm not attached to the outcome, I don't have to worry whether I succeed or fail. — Drunvalo Melchizedek Copy Share Image
Do not say before hand what you are going to do; for if you fail, you will be laughed at. — Pittacus of Mytilene Copy Share Image
The most common and the monstrous defect in the education of the day is that children fail to acquire the habit of… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
To me Art (poetry) is a continuous and continuing process and that when a man fails to write good poetry he fails… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Nine out of ten businesses fail; so I came up with a foolproof plan - create ten businesses. — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
One opens the inner doors of one's heart to the infinite silences of the Spirit, out of whose abysses love wells up… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Courage allows the successful woman to fail- and learn powerful lessons- from the failure- so that in the end, she didn't fail… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The intellect has only one failing, which, to be sure, is a very considerable one. It has no conscience. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Things are rarely just crazy enough to work, but they're frequently just crazy enough to fail hilariously. — Randall Munroe Copy Share Image
