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Quotes About Fail

To try and fail is at least to learn; to fail to try is to suffer the inestimable loss of what might have been.
~ Chester Barnard
Crumbling is not an instant's Act A fundamental pause Dilapidation's processes Are organized Decays. 'Tis first a Cobweb on the Soul A Cuticle of Dust A Borer in the Axis An Elemental Rust— Ruin is formal—Devil's work Consecutive and slow— Fail in an instant, no man did Slipping—is Crash's law.
~ Emily Dickinson
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 weighed down with the social programs. And I think the American public just feels like a lot of that money is tossed aside and wasted.
~ Mick Cornett
The sad thing is, when it comes to diet, is that even when well-intentioned Feds try to do right by us, they fail. Either they're outvoted by puppets of agribusiness, or they are puppets of agribusiness.
~ Mark Bittman
We need a romantic illusion to embark on relationships in the first place. After that, they survive or fail for other, more practical reasons.
~ Nick Hornby
I think if you try to force a personality on a world then I think you're destined to fail.
~ Peter Molyneux
We know that families and kids are going to be an important part of our audience, so we've always made sure that we've picked subject matter that was appropriate for kids. But I think if you try to target a movie to kids, you're going to fail.
~ Lee Unkrich
I know not how to aid you, save in the assurance of one of mature age, and much severe experience, that you can not fail, if you resolutely determine, that you will not.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Antifeminists are the only ones who benefit from their version of working on women's behalf; in reality, they put other women at risk and fail to solve any larger problems.
~ Jessica Valenti
In Louisiana, you can drive when you're 15 - you could get your driving permit. I remember, during driver's ed, I fell asleep at the wheel one day. I was tired. The guy shook me and switched and said he was getting into the driver's seat. I didn't fail, so I guess you can fall asleep occasionally. It's Louisiana.
~ Theo Von
I resolve to work with my colleagues to succeed in producing the good rather than failing to produce the perfect.
~ Thom Tillis
Writing a comedy script is a difficult thing. I think if someone is attempting a comedy and then they fail then it's understood.
~ Paresh Rawal
If we get to the design sensitivity and make no detections, then there are a lot of things that will have to go back to the drawing board theoretically. If we fail, we're not expecting that the NSF will help bail it out somehow.
~ Barry Barish
It was a big decision to leave the system because many people said I would fail.
~ Li Na
I think artists need the freedom to fail and I gave myself that freedom.
~ Lucy Alibar
I am very fussy; I am very detailed; I nag a lot. So in a sense, I am like Mr. Ping. I am temperamental, I am emotional, I'm fussy, and I'm very exact. And I want people to not fail; I want them to execute - all those things Mr. Ping wants in other people. Or animals.
~ James Hong
I had rather attempt something great and fail, than to attempt nothing at all and succeed
~ Robert H. Schuller
I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.
~ Robert H. Schuller
What does one prefer? An art that struggles to change the social contract, but fails? Or one that seeks to please and amuse, and succeeds?
~ Robert Hughes
Before reaching Grassy Butte, though, Dad spied a farmhouse with two pumps in the drive and a red-and-white sign out front saying DALE'S OIL COMPANY. Another sign said CLOSED, but a light was on in the house and Dad pulled in, saying, I believe we might prevail on Dale. What do you think? Prevail on Dale, I repeated to Swede. To make a sale, she added. And if we fail, we'll whale on Dale-- Till he needs braille! Will you guys desist? Dad asked.
~ Leif Enger
Those who are still slaves to dreams, to the Will to Fail, are made uncomfortable by the sight of anyone who is breaking free.
~ Dorothea Brande
My egotistical concern was less that I would fail to relate to my classmates than that they would know nothing of my uniquely tortured life's course and, thus, me.
~ John Thorn
This is what I think the world is showing me. We are souls at a common cause. We are only here to love. That was my great story all along. We are here to take chances, and fail, and keep trying.
~ Jodi Lynn Anderson
Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope: Because of the LORD's great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.1
~ Anne Graham Lotz