Fail Quotes
3161 quotes by 2081 authors
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I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy's dock. He had come a long way…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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When adults say, "Teenagers think they are invincible" with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are. We need…
— John Green
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To simply think about the people, as the dominators do, without any self-giving in that thought, to fail to think with the people, is a…
— Paulo Freire
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Those who have not found the heaven below, will fail of it above.
— Emily Dickinson
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You know, that might be the answer – to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That’s a trick that never seems…
— Joseph Heller
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How strange to have failed as a social creature—even criminals do not fail that way—they are the law's "Loyal Opposition," so to speak. But the…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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In the land of Ingary where such things as seven-league boots and cloaks of invisibility really exist, it is quite a misfortune to be born…
— Diana Wynne Jones
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Unless you're not pushing yourself, you're not living to the fullest. You can't be afraid to fail, but unless you fail, you haven't pushed hard…
— Dean Karnazes
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We can afford to follow Him to failure. Faith dares to fail. The resurrection and the judgment will demonstrate before all worlds who won and…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.
— Lloyd Jones
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We are so busy constantly checking our own temperatures, we fail to notice the burning fevers of others.
— Neal A. Maxwell
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You are the most dangerous kind of female the world can ever know. You carry the seeds for your own destruction and the destruction of…
— Virginia C. Andrews
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Idiot. Above her head was the only stable point in the cosmos, the only refuge from the damnation of the panta rei, and she guessed…
— Umberto Eco
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We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often "Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to…
— M. Scott Peck
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People who fail focus on what they will have to go through; people who succeed focus on what it will feel like at the end.
— Tony Robbins
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What I've learned is that there is nothing in this life that does not fail to disappoint us, even our own deaths.
— Joe Meno
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The memory of that event has only just come back to me, now doubly painful: regret for a vanished past and, above all, remorse for…
— Jean-Dominique Bauby
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These people fail to realize that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside. They should direct their anger…
— Yann Martel
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One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change. Every society…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Beautiful things grow to a certain height and then they fail and fade off, breathing out memories as they decay. And just as any period…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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