(774 quotes found)
“War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed”
William McKinley
“Live for today. Multitudes of people have failed to live for today. . . . What they have had within their grasp today they have missed entirely, because only the future has intrigued them.”
William Allen White
“People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of them. This is what people have come to expect. It's not viewed as a serious continent. It's a place of strange, bizarre and illogical things, where people don't do what common sense demands.”
Chinua Achebe
“Test fast, fail fast, adjust fast.”
Tom Peters
“Who misses, or who wins the prize?Go, lose and conquer as you can:But if you fail, or if you rise,Be each, pray God, a gentleman.”
William Makepeace Thackeray
“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.”
Samuel Beckett
“The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.”
William Shakespeare
“I did what my conscience told me to do, and you can't fail if you do that”
Anita Hill
“I cannot sing the old songs I sang long years ago, For heart and voice would fail me, And foolish tears would flow”
Charlotte Alington Barnard
“Nothing lifts me out of a bad mood better than a hard workout on my treadmill. It never fails. To us, exercise is nothing short of a miracle.”
Cher
