Fail Quotes
3161 quotes by 2175 authors
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I am the androgyne, I am the living mind you fail to describe in your dead language the lost noun, the verb surviving only in…
— Adrienne Rich
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There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail
— Henry Ford
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Chained inside the carriage is a sinful woman. When we set the carriage afire, her flesh will be roasted, her bones will be charred: she…
— RyÅ«nosuke Akutagawa
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I have often had occasion to notice how, where a direct question would fail to elicit a response, a false assumption brings instant information in…
— Agatha Christie
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A man who lifts his chin in pride will fail to see the chasm at his feet.
— Alison Goodman
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Don’t fail through defects of temper and over-sensitiveness at moments of trial. One of the great helps to success is to be cheerful; to go…
— Amelia Barr
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Life is full of toil, sacrifice, and pain, and from the time we stop growing, we know that we've begun dying. We watch helplessly as…
— Jim Butcher
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It's probably not going to lead to anything. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't try. If everyone who thought they might fail didn't even try,…
— Nicholas Sparks
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Unfortunately, the real minimum wage is always zero, regardless of the laws, and that is the wage that many workers receive in the wake of…
— Thomas Sowell
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Most people fail in life not because they aim too high and miss, but because they aim too low and hit.
— Les Brown
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I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another's company and aid in consultation.
— Ernest Hemingway
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Much that was called religion has carried an unconscious attitude of hostility toward life. True religion must teach that life is filled with joys pleasing…
— Frank Herbert
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It's not enough, is it? Just to follow; just to have faith in someone bigger and smarter and better informed. That's how we're built, that's…
— Dan Wells
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The moment of crisis had come, and I must face it. My old fears, my diffidence, my shyness, my hopeless sense of inferiority, must be…
— Daphne du Maurier
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You see how I try To reach with words What matters most And how I fail.
— Czeslaw Milosz
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Anybody who thinks there's nothing wrong with this world needs to have his head examined. Just when things are going all right, without fail someone…
— Athol Fugard
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No emotion is, in itself, a judgement; in that sense all emotions and sentiments are alogical. but they can be reasonable or unreasonable as they…
— C.S. Lewis
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...the more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety. The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.
— Irvin D. Yalom
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If we're just trying to be accurate, then how about 'The Doomed to Fail Bunch'?" said Constance. "Honestly! We can't even name ourselves.
— Trenton Lee Stewart
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There was a time in our lives when we were so close that nothing seemed to obstruct our friendship and brotherhood, and only a small…
— Irvin D. Yalom
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