Fail Quotes

3161 quotes by 2175 authors

I always look at a group of people who want to attempt an enterprise greater than their means. They begin on this enterprise and they… — Mario Monicelli
The vast majority of large scale change efforts fail. Which means that the probability that you have actually experienced a failure, and your people know… — John P. Kotter
I believe in infrastructure, I believe in investing in your hard assets. Where I think government starts to fail is when it starts getting itself… — Mick Cornett
I never fail to find it weird when people recognise me. — Mollie King
People, for reasons of their own, often fail to do things that would be good for them or good for society. — John Roberts
People, for reasons of their own, often fail to do things that would be good for them or good for society. Those failures - joined… — John Roberts
An optimist understands that life can be a bumpy road, but at least it is leading somewhere. They learn from mistakes and failures, and are… — Harvey Mackay
The thing I have to do as a writer, and that God permits me to do, is that I have to be willing to fail. — Mary Karr
Very few people ever manage what nature manages without effort and mostly without fail. We don't know who we are or how to function, much… — Jeanette Winterson
We were born to succeed, not to fail. — Henry David Thoreau
Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits. — Robert Louis Stevenson
How to succeed: Try hard enough. How to fail: Try too hard. — Malcolm Forbes
Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail of success — Francois La Rochefoucauld
No more essential duty of government exists than the protection of the lives of its people. Fail in this, and we fail in everything. — Francis T Murphy
Thank God, I have my work, but instead of earning money by it, I need money to be able to work; that is the difficulty.… — Vincent Van Gogh
I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition - about what we can endure, dream, fail at, and… — Maya Angelou
All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible. — William Faulkner
For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to make… — Bible
So act boldly, as if it's impossible to fail. If you keep adding fuel to your desire, you will reach the point of knowing that… — Steve Pavlina
Men are born to succeed, not fail. — Henry David Thoreau

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