(710 quotes found)
“You tried your best and failed miserably. The lesson is: never try.”
Homer Simpson
“Being convinced one knows the whole story is the surest way to fail.”
Philip Crosby
“Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn't have what it takes"; They will say, "Women don't have what it takes";”
Clare Boothe Luce
“it's better to get something worthwhile done using deception than to fail to get something worthwhile done using truth.”
Carlos Castaneda
“War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed”
William McKinley
“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
“The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.”
William Shakespeare
“There is no such thing as a failed experiment, only experiments with unexpected outcomes”
Richard Buckminster Fuller
“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
“But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.”
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