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I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

Michael Jordan

Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.

Thomas Jefferson

Oft expectation fails, and most oft where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest; and despair most sits.

William Shakespeare

Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.

Seneca

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

Henry David Thoreau

Everyone excels in something in which another fails.

Latin Proverb

Eventually, the waves get big enough and the Jell-O fails.

Jim Hooper

If it all fails, we can always go home, find a job and do what everyone else does. Why not? If you think you could do it better, why not try?

David Filepp

If the Senate fails to act and move forward on those nominees.

Scott Mcclellan

If he fails to deliver on this issue, he'll have to deliver on some significant other issue.

Derek Rogusky

The more it fails, the more money it seems Congress and the president are willing to throw at it.

Brian Hughes

If this fails, we'll move on again.

Jay Yule

He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.

Paul Tillich

All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.

James Allen

Even the dogs in the street know that there will be no decommission, no possibility of decommission ... if this process fails.

George J. Mitchell

We are using this action as an example of how self-regulation fails.

Sarah Andrews

If one has made a mistake, and fails to correct it, one has made a greater mistake.

Plato

No man fails who does his best.

Orison Swett Marden

If the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory.

Jefferson Davis

War is what happens when language fails.

Margaret Atwood

The wolf is a hot-button species. It never fails to ignite passions, either for or against.

Rolf Peterson

If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.

John Kenneth Galbraith

The discipline of power is what this is all about: to keep the extremists at bay. If he fails at doing that, his government will fall.

Michael Behiels

Vaccines and drugs are important, but that's your back-up if all else fails.

William Karesh

If all else fails, they can call me.

Charles Mcdonald

If he fails to come to see the police after another two more summons, we could issue an arrest warrant.

Ajirawid Subarnbhesaj

We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely.

Frank Mccourt

If anything fails, they fail the whole thing, and it gets pushed back to you.

John Montgomery

A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy.

John Churton Collins

Basically, the battalion commander of any unit is responsible for anything that unit does or fails to do.

Andy Yakulis

This will ensure the district will maintain its balanced budget if the referendum fails March 21.

Tom Hay

The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.

Lloyd Jones

If AOL fails to comply with the agreement, the deal is off and they are in a world of trouble.

James Comey

We will do our best to make sure this draft fails at the referendum.

Adnan Dulaimi

The president will try to get the nationalists on board but if that fails, he may go for a quick election.

Sunanda Deshapriya

Hey, we're 3-0 in the coin toss. Tails never fails.

Daryn Colledge

More can be learned from what works than from what fails.

Rene Dubois

Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

We have a zero-tolerance policy for any facility that fails to conduct the sampling.

Fred Mumford

The idea is that someone is watching that child. Layers of protection are for when that fails.

Nancy Baker

There's a certain stigma attached to anybody who becomes a National Merit and 'fails.' It's not really from the administration, but personal.

Levi Rowland

It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.

Romain Rolland

Explaining something sensible to Lord Killanin is akin to explaining something to a cauliflower. The advantage of the cauliflower is that if all else fails, you can always cover it with melted cheese and eat it.

William E. Simon

When this initiative fails, the legislature which is controlled by liberals will revoke it.

Cliff Nellis

The time to hide behind the finger when one fails to deliver is over.

Cde Chombo

This is the year when we will see what works and what fails.

Anita Frazier

If the bond fails, facility conditions in the district will continue to worsen, they won't get any better.

Dan Hollar

Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Norman Macewan

Brush Park has always been the poster child of how Detroit fails at what it tries to do.

Bill Atwood

You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.

Norman Douglas