What signs fail to express, their application shows. What signs slur over, their application says clearly. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
We know that happiness is short-lived, that we fail to cherish it when it is within our grasp and value it only… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Few people who marry plan for their marriages to fail, but neither do they specifically plan for success. — Myles Munroe Copy Share Image
To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare to fail... failure is his world and the shrink from it… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The patterns became even more vivid at Cardinal Hayes High School. That's when I began failing subjects and running away from home… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Whatever's merely willful, and not miraculous (be never it so skilful) must wither fail and cease - but better than to grow… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
We're giving our freedoms away. The American experiment was about freedom. Freedom to be stupid, freedom to fail, freedom to succeed. — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
Writing humor in my column isn't as dangerous as performing it. If I fail in front of a live audience, the humiliation… — Art Buchwald Copy Share Image
Some major churches overemphasize the importance of preaching as a means to increase membership and fail to reach out with compassion to… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Be patient. Your skin took a while to deteriorate. Give it some time to reflect a calmer inner state. As one of… — Jess C Scott Copy Share Image
Opportunity ... It has a sly habit of slipping in by the back door, and often it comes disguised in the form… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
If you run a website that doesn't have something that's terrible on it, you are not trying hard enough. You have to… — Erik Wemple Copy Share Image
I have so many things to work on, and so many ways that I fail. But that's what grace is all about.… — Tim Tebow Copy Share Image
Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure.… — Mark Skousen Copy Share Image
That's just a part of being an artist: you can't write great stuff all the time, because if you did, then you'd… — Elton John Copy Share Image
In Europe life retreats out of the cold, and exquisite fireside myths have resulted—Balder, Persephone—but [in India] the retreat is from the… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no other choice.… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
It reflects no great honor on a painter to be able to execute only one thing well -- such as a head,… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I am proud of the fact that the U.K. is an open trading country. I welcome inward investment such as that of… — David Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Turville Copy Share Image
We often see our negative experiences and mistakes as something and tend to see ourselves as failures when we fail to do… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
As for me, I've chosen to follow a simple course: Come clean. And wherever possible, live your life in a way that… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
Of course the welfare of our children is a legitimate state interest. However, limiting marriage to opposite-sex couples fails to further this… — Arenda L. Wright Allen Copy Share Image
Poet, forger of ideals, dreamer among the possibilities of life, prophet of the millenium, do you get impatient with the prosaic life… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
Communism has failed; capitalism has failed; common sense has failed; now has to fail stupidity. — William C. Brown Copy Share Image
When the eye fails to find beauty-alias solace-it commands the body to create it, or, failing that, adjusts itself to perceive virtue… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Failing to fetch me at first, keep encouraged. Missing me one place, search another. I stop somewhere waiting for you. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
When the hypocrisy of life appears we often fail to recognise it or the question it raises — Jeremy Griffith Copy Share Image
Nothing is so fickle and uncertain as popularity. It is here today and gone tomorrow. It is a sandy foundation, and sure… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
“... if I'm sure I'm right, there is little hope of seeing where I am failing. So I keep trying the same… — Arbinger Institute Copy Share Image
Without your right to have money that holds it's value, all else just fails because you don't have any real money. — Bernard von NotHaus Copy Share Image
Love is patient. Love is kind. It bears all things. Love never fails. Love is as strong as death. — O.R. Melling Copy Share Image
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
A writer's job is to cultivate what can go wrong. You're always looking for that dramatic arc of where things can fail. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Do not fail to learn from The pure voice of an Ever-flowing mountain stream Splashing over the rocks. — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
What is a champion but a guy that didn't quit?... Life is a continuous experience. You only fail by not learning. — Renzo Gracie Copy Share Image
Humor is hard, hard, hard. And if you fail with humor, you don't fail halfway. You drop the ball humor-wise and everyone… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
As long as we fail to face up to the past and deal with it accordingly, the future will smack of corruption. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I decided to become an actor because I was failing in school and I needed the credits. — Dustin Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Failure is not the deterrent for the next try. Rather, it is information that empowers the next step.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
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