Fail Quotes
3161 quotes by 2208 authors
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You can be loved by your family, your mate, and your friends yet not love yourself. You can be admired by your associates yet regard…
— Nathaniel Branden
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I cannot affirm God if I fail to affirm man. Therefore, I affirm both. Without a belief in human unity I am hungry and incomplete.…
— Norman Cousins
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There can be no freedom without freedom to fail.
— Eric Hoffer
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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
— George Eliot
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All varieties of interference with the market phenomena not only fail to achieve the ends aimed at by their authors and supporters, but bring about…
— Ludwig von Mises
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A libertarian is a person who believes that no one has the right, under any circumstances, to initiate force against another human being, or to…
— L. Neil Smith
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If you are going to do large-scale invention, you have to be willing to do three things: You must be willing to fail; you have…
— Jeff Bezos
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You can not fail in any laudable object, unless you allow your mind to be improperly directed.
— Abraham Lincoln
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I am still learning - how to take joy in all the people I am, how to use all my selves in the service of…
— Audre Lorde
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Among innumerable footsteps of divine providence to be found in the works of nature, there is a very remarkable one to be observed in the…
— John Arbuthnot
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In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others.
— Joseph Priestley
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[Should Britain fail, then the entire world would] sink into the abyss of a new dark age made more sinister ... by the lights of…
— Winston Churchill
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If one in twenty does not seem high enough odds, we may, if we prefer it, draw the line at one in fifty (the 2…
— Ronald Fisher
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When the heart is once won to rest in God, to repose himself on him, he will assuredly satisfy it. He will never be as…
— John Owen
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But to procrastinate and prevaricate simply because you're afraid of erring, when others - I mean our brethren in Germany - must make infinitely more…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Remember that [scientific thought] is the guide of action; that the truth which it arrives at is not that which we can ideally contemplate without…
— William Kingdon Clifford
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[When nature appears complicated:] The moment we contemplate it as it is, and attain a position from which we can take a commanding view, though…
— John Herschel
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Among the older records, we find chapter after chapter of which we can read the characters, and make out their meaning: and as we approach…
— Adam Sedgwick
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To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled - because…
— Oscar Wilde
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The best means of forming a manly, virtuous, and happy people will be found in the right education of youth. Without this foundation, every other…
— George Washington
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