Fail Quotes

3161 quotes by 2081 authors

Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were born to succeed, not to fail. — Henry David Thoreau
One can build the Empire State Building, discipline the Prussian army, make a state hierarchy mightier than God, yet fail to overcome the unaccountable superiority… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are women who have an indefinable charm in their faces which makes them beautiful to their intimates, but a cold stranger who tried to… — Mark Twain
I fail to see what fun, what satisfaction / A God can find in laughing at how badly / Men fumble at the possibilities... — Robert Frost
The earth's distances invite the eye. And as the eye reaches, so must the mind stretch to meet these new horizons. I challenge anyone to… — Hal Borland
Sweet April! many a thought Is wedded unto thee, as hearts are wed; Nor shall they fail, till, to its autumn brought, Life's golden fruit… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Although the poet has as wide a choice of subjects as the painter, his creations fail to afford as much satisfaction to mankind as do… — Leonardo da Vinci
The arguments for purity of life fail of their due influence, not because they have been considered and confuted, but because they have been passed… — Samuel Johnson
For thence a paradox Which comforts while it mocks, - Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail: What I aspired to be, And… — Robert Browning
If the Church of England were to fail, it would be found in my parish — John Keble
Blest be those feasts, with simple plenty crowned, Where all the ruddy family around Laugh at the jests or pranks that never fail Or sigh… — Oliver Goldsmith
But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloisters pale, And love the high embowed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And… — John Milton
Organizations cannot make a genius out of an incompetent. On the other hand, disorganization can scarcely fail to result in efficiency. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Disorganization can scarcely fail to result in efficiency. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
If we fail to appreciate the soul that Easternism gives us, then what we have is a disconnected, Greco-Roman, Western, egocentric, compartmentalized, reductionist, fragmented, linear… — Joel Salatin
We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace,… — Bruce Barton
Paradoxically, we fail to disclose ourselves to other people because we want so much to be loved. Because we feel that way, we present ourselves… — Sidney Jourard
Try again. Fail again. Try better. — Samuel Beckett
Writers are what they write, also what they fail to write. — Diana Trilling

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