It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.
Aristotle
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
Galileo Galilei
Test fast, fail fast, adjust fast.
Tom Peters
Trying is a part of failing. If you are afraid to fail then you're afraid to try.
Evelyn Cunningham
Me fail english? Thats unpossible.
Matt Groening
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
Theodore Roosevelt
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Benjamin Franklin
Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent.
William Cobbett
Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.
Lois McMaster Bujold
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
Gore Vidal
Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge to others.
Amelia Earhart
We will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail.
George W. Bush
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Men are born to succeed, not fail.
Henry David Thoreau
He who cherishes the values of culture cannot fail to be a pacifist.
Albert Einstein
In the long run you only hit what you aim at. Therefore, though you should fail immediately, you had better aim at something high.
Henry David Thoreau
We no longer have to worry about outdated equipment that may fail.
Daniel Kelly
They can fail to function properly, which can lead to a fire or explosion.
Jeff Berino
What would you do if you knew you could not fail?
Robert H. Schuller
You can't fail with linen. It gives the chair a European classic look of its own.
Amanda Pays
I decided to become an actor because I was failing in school and I needed the credits.
Dustin Hoffman
You almost can't fail with such great support.
Marcus Caudill
A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.
Michelangelo Buonarroti
I must have some sort of record in failing to get into the charts.
Anni frid Lyngstad
On current business assumptions, course and speed, we will surely fail unless we radically change the way we run our business.
Idris Jala
You can go on making the dikes higher and higher . . . but if they fail, the effect is going to be much worse.
Jos Kuijpers
The cure for capitalism's failing would require that a government would have to rise above the interests of one class alone.
Robert Heilbroner
Where words fail, music speaks.
Hans Christian Andersen
Wisconsin's kids shouldn't be allowed to fail just because Washington is failing them.
Democratic Govjim Doyle
If Mr. Shapiro is not released, Cobalt will fail.
Martin Leppo
I just fail to see who would be interested in buying Pilkington and I wouldn't be chasing it at this level.
Simon Brown
The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstances, whether created by others or by one's own human failing.
Ralph Ellison
Shortly after I came on, the district acquired the golf dome, which was a failing business. That has been a great boon for the community.
Dan Hovland
If you're afraid of it, then you're going to fail.
Brian Gionta
Without his insights, we would fail to appreciate the dangerous potentials of rapid evolution in the avian flu virus.
Michael Novacek
Batteries tend to last about three years and then fail suddenly.
Philip Reed
Your harness, you check your, you check everything, one little fall, it's only equipment, it can fail.
Greg Keller
They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Socialism failed because it couldn't tell the economic truth; capitalism may fail because it couldn't tell the ecological truth.
Lester Brown
People fail forward to success.
Mary Kay Ash
In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
Vince Lombardi
I can remember back in the 70s all you had to do, basically, was go to class and not be failing. Long as you were not on probation by your university, you were eligible.
Richard Giannini
Learn fast, fail fast, correct fast, and connect fast.
Linda Chandler
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
Beverly Sills
Communications is always where you fail in any disaster. It's something we need to really focus on.
Bonnie Reed
Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing.
James Harvey Robinson
I'm a perfectionist. I can't help it, I get really upset with myself if I fail in the least.
Justin Timberlake
When all these rationalizations fail, you can always turn to Red Klotz.
Pat Toomay
If you fail on either of these two counts, your case will disappear in front of your eyes.
Andrew Levy
There's only one way you can fail, and that's to quit.
Brian Hays
Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.
Anthony Robbins
Why did they fail? Because we set them up to fail.
Paul Royer
Whenever I fail as a father or husband... a toy and a diamond always works.
Shahrukh Khan
There's only two kinds of levees, ... Ones that have failed and those that will fail.
Jane Bullock
Many will try. Most will fail, and a few will succeed.
Paul Scheuring
We are very confident that those extremists will also fail to disrupt and derail voting day.
Jean Arnault
As a management team, if you give the college less money than your commitments, you doom it to fail.
Frank Stansberry
If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.
Ulysses S. Grant
Rain or snow, no fail, we'll be here.
Father Gregory Horton
To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.
Dorothea Brande
I'd rather fail and try than just make another racing game.
David Jaffe
You cannot stop to ponder. You just can't. If you do, you fail. You simply stop.
Viktor Sukhodrev
Communities that fail to provide that information are providing a disservice to their citizens.
Pam Wilmot
When they're not identified and they're thrown into school systems where they cannot cope, they fail.
James Reynolds
Cranes do fail because of deficiency on the equipment or operator error.
Luis Santiago
The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.
Lloyd Jones
I would rather lose in a cause that I know some day will triumph than to triumph in a cause that I know some day will fail.
Wendell L. Willkie
The status quo can't continue. It should be clear that Northwest isn't too big to fail.
Brian Leitch
It's not enough that I should succeed - others should fail.
David Merrick
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
Samuel Beckett
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Robert F. Kennedy
Why would they do that? They know he's failing.
Gale Kaufman
In today's world, where you have so much disconnect between the schools and the community ... that's why levies fail.
Suanne Sines
If anything fails, they fail the whole thing, and it gets pushed back to you.
John Montgomery
All systems fail. And it will fail at the least opportune time.
Jeff Becker
There are people who will try to kill candidates and who will try to stop the election, ... They will fail. They have absolutely no chance of stopping this election.
Ronald Neumann
If you try to do television on a PC you will fail, because television does television very well.
Lloyd Braun
Our children have already been told what it takes to fail, ... Our aim is to expose them to what it takes to succeed.
Keith Sanders
A good idea plus capable men cannot fail; it is better than money in the bank.
John Berry
We had 70 percent failing, now we have up to 70 percent proficiency.
Katie Decker
The most important failing is that they divorce the study of the Holocaust from the war.
Gerhard Weinberg
The penalty for failing to pay is much smaller than the penalty for failing to file.
Jesse Weller
There is no fail. We wouldn't have gotten where we are if our technology didn't work.
Chris Jeffery
For every community that survives and succeeds, there are probably five or 10 or more that fail. There are a lot of barriers.
Parke Burgess
It's not going to do anything. You're still going to fail.
Thomas Dobie
In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.
David Viscott
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
Alan Lakein
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
Herman Melville
Failures don't plan to fail; they fail to plan.
Harvey Mackay
We cannot fail to win unless we fail to try.
Tom Clancy
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?
Dr. Robert Schuller
The best way not to fail again is to be absolutely positive that when you do it this time, you're going to do it right.
Burt Reynolds
Shall I crack any of those old jokes, master,At which the audience never fail to laugh?
Aristophanes
I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.
Anne Baxter
We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.
David Gayson
PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.
Ambrose Bierce
Nonsense and noise will oft prevail, when honour and affection fail.
William Lloyd Garrison
If you don't have both water and sunlight adequately, you're almost positively going to fail.
Janet Cangemi
If they straight up asked Congress to amend the law, it would fail.
Duane Woerth
Either one or more of the carriers will fail. That will eliminate some capacity, and of course when supply goes down, price goes up.
George Hamlin
I don't think that the negotiations will fail.
Michael Glos
They fail to meet our major criteria, which was maximum access and preservation of that bedrock area.
Anthony Gardner
Quite frankly, I don't see any criminal intent. Businesses fail all the time.
David Larsen
If we fail to address America's number one cause of disease and death (smoking cigarettes), we don't stand a chance of controlling health care costs.
Oscar Lovelace
You fail only if you stop writing.
Ray Bradbury
It is failing the American people miserably.
Peter Defazio
We are failing the poor.
Duncan Hindle
They love the concept of commercial and we love the concept of commercial. But there is a dozen examples of commercial failing in Oakland.
Pat Keliher
We are not trying to set up people to fail.
Barbara Alterman
We feared he would fail to fulfill the December 1999 concert if we did not enter a contract for December 2000.
Gary Loveman
That's what you expect out of all-county kids. If they don't make plays, you don't win games like this. They're not afraid to fail.
Tom Nelligan
I think we were set up to fail.
Derek Delporto
Success is a prize given to those who try and fail willingly.
Jeffrey Bryant
No-one reading this report can fail to be shocked by the enormity of the crimes committed by Shipman.
Janet Smith
If listeners aren't carried away to Heaven,I'm failing.
La Monte Young
We have to look at all areas. I have to plan for a $218,000 deficit. The referendum could fail. If it does, I've got to have the budget balanced.
Ron Vaughn
The catch basin infrastructure appears to be failing.
Andrew Gilmore
We are aware of the complexity and the pain and the suffering, ... But we are determined to do what we can. We are determined to succeed, not to fail.
George J. Mitchell
It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.
Jerry Gillies
He tried to change at least one grade from failing to passing.
Melodie Rydalch
Human reproductive cloning should not now be practiced. It is dangerous and likely to fail.
Irving Weissman
If the Church of England were to fail, it would be found in my parish.
John Keble
God can do anything but fail.
African American Proverb
Any plan conceived in moderation must fail when the circumstances are set in extremes.
Klemens Von Metternich
I think you're going to see companies out-and-out failing this year.
Greg Ballard
These are the desperate acts of a desperate president who is going to try and drag this country through a cultural war to jump-start a failing campaign.
Cheryl Jacques
Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.
Napoleon Hill
This has never been attempted before. There is a very good chance that we will fail and that we will not be able to stop it.
Keiji Fukuda
Why do Greeks always open restaurants that fail?
George Chakiris
It isn't by size that you win or fail -- be the best of whatever you are.
Douglas Malloch
The (old type) jobs are hard to get. What do you do if they fail to get a proper education?
William Strauss
Meanwhile, we've got schools that are failing. Those computers are not going to help those children. Not one bit.
Jackie Wagstaff
Failing to keep my marriage together.
Harold Nicholson
These trials may be doomed to fail.
Jeffrey Schlom
Well, God has boxed me in, ... He said that even if I fail, I have no choice.
Janet Harris
I'm afraid that it will fail miserably. Somehow, we have to promote this.
Loui Antonucci
Add in dozens of suppliers tied to them that are failing, and it's pretty ugly.
Dennis Desrosiers
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
Dorothea Brande
The only people who never fail are those who never try.
Ilka Chase
If that's failing, I'm guilty.
Kevin Mcguire
Most people start a diet and know it's going to fail.
Matt Wiese
When you lose, you're more motivated. When you win, you fail to see your mistakes and probably no one can tell you anything.
Venus Williams
But to me the bottom line is the more education you can give yourself, and the more preparation you can do, the less chance of failing.
Stuart Pearce
That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.
A. Whitney Brown
The only thing Google has failed to do, so far, is fail.
John Battelle
I'm not afraid of failing. I don't like to fail. I hate to fail. But I'm not afraid of it.
Vince Mcmahon
Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey still fail to satisfy either of these... criteria.
Guenter Verheugen
To fail to love is not to exist at all.
Mark Van Doren
She doesn't have one kid failing, ... She doesn't accept failure.
Terry Thompson
After all he brought ABC to the table and it is failing.
Porter Bibb
If you know you are going to fail, then fail gloriously.
Cate Blanchett
Salesforce.com is becoming a victim of its own success and they are failing their customers. At what point will their customers decide they have had enough?
Jonathan Tang
If you fail to prepare, you're prepared to fail.
Mark Spitz
This is a big opportunity. I've got to try to go out there and do more, and I have no problem with that. I'm a person who refuses to fail.
Horace Jenkins
No more essential duty of government exists than the protection of the lives of its people. Fail in this, and we fail in everything.
Francis T. Murphy
I don't think you ever go into a marriage to fail.
Loni Anderson
Either we are all free, or we fail; democracy must belong to all of us.
Dennis Chavez
We are very confident that those extremists will also fail to disrupt and derail voting day. The Afghans will not let anyone stop them from participating in this election.
Jean Arnault
The job FEMA has done is terrible. I would give it a failing grade.
Jane Bullock
America: the only country in the world where failing to promote yourself is regarded as being arrogant.
Garry Trudeau
These good schools can be a major resource for schools that are failing.
Brandon Moore
When we fail a child, we take it personally.
Brandon Thomas
While my heart is a shield and I won't let it down, While I'm so afraid to fail so I won't even try, Well, how can I say I'm alive?
Andrew Didonato
The agreement is very clear. You fail to pay and we lock you out.
George Okungu
It's now in danger of failing. They're slowly emptying that one now. We're also now looking at every dam in the state and figuring out where the danger areas are.
Ray Lovell
They're all in different stages of critical. A couple of areas are failing and a couple more were not functioning as they should so they were put on the ticket to be fixed.
Eric Quinn
There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.
Erich Fromm
We are doing a poor job in addressing depression. We are failing these people.
Ellen Frank
I fail to understand what the real reason is for doing this.
Edward Hammond
Normally these things fail on either management issues or price.
Zafar Khan
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