Fail Quotes

3161 quotes by 2208 authors

Think of it this way: There are two kinds of failure. The first comes from never trying out your ideas because you are afraid, or… — Robert Greene
Everything in Irenaeus is bathed in a warm and radiant joy, a wise and majestic gentleness. His words of struggle are hard as iron and… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
The greatest real thrill that life offers is to create, to construct, to develop something useful. Too often we fail to recognize and pay tribute… — Alfred P. Sloan
Although one may fail to find happiness in theatrical life, one never wishes to give it up after having once tasted its fruits. — Anna Pavlova
The biggest challenge is how to get people to wake up and realize this is a one-shot deal. If we fail, we are witting participants… — Nathan Lewis
The science is crystal clear: we humans are the primary cause of global warming, and we face a bleak future if we fail to act… — Joseph J. Romm
Whatever's merely willful, and not miraculous (be never it so skilful) must wither fail and cease - but better than to grow beauty knows no. — E E Cummings
Because we fail to listen to each other's stories, we are becoming a fragmented human race. — Madeleine L'Engle
I am speaking to those among you who have retained some sovereign shred of their soul, unsold and unstamped: '- to the order of others'.… — Ayn Rand
I don't teach writing. I teach patience. Toughness. Stubbornness. The willingness to fail. I teach the life. The odd thing is most of the things… — Richard Bausch
If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly. — Edward Albee
When I paint, I never think of selling. People simply fail to understand that we paint in order to experiment and to develop ourselves as… — Edvard Munch
Even in the works of the greatest master, the organic sequence can fail and then a skillful join must be made. — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
I didn't fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps. — Thomas A. Edison
Is it better to be extremely ambitious, or rather modest? Probably the latter is safer; but I hate safety, and would rather fail gloriously than… — Vita Sackville-West
At the core, there is one simple, overarching reason why so many people remain unsatisfied in their work and why most organisations fail to draw… — Stephen Covey
What I am asserting is that in this particular epoch a conjunction of historical circumstances has led to the rise of an elite of power;… — C. Wright Mills
I hope his kidneys fail, how about that? He needs a waterboarding, that's what he needs. — Wanda Sykes
I believe that we can accomplish any object that we make up our minds to, and no boy or girl ought to sit down and… — Heber J. Grant
On matters beyond his ken a gentleman speaks with caution. If names are not right, words are misused. When words are misused, affairs go wrong.… — Confucius

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