Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jessica Simpson

How can I be my best if I never fail, and how can I ever find peace if I never yell.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We own up to minor failings, but only so as to convince others that we have no major ones.

Horace Mann

If temperance prevails, then education can prevail; if temperance fails, then education must fail.

Keith Teare

I feel like 'Just.me' is not successful, but it is not a failure.

David Jaffe

I'd rather fail and try than just make another racing game.

Mahela Jayawardene

I am not happy at all. Our star batsmen failed to play big innings.

Ruth Rendell

I always write about subjects which attract me because if I didn't, it would be awful, a failure.

Nick Harkaway

I do public appearances. I'm bluff, hearty, goofy. I wear loud clothes, and I read the funny bits. I occasionally get taken to task for one thing or another, and I acknowledge my fault, my flaw, my failure, and I move on.

I don't think the secretary-general wants another failed effort.

Dave Eggers

I am myself a failed cartoonist, There are a million reasons to ruin things.

Hudson Taylor

In nothing do we fail more, as a Mission, than in lack of tact and politeness.

Honore de Balzac

Discouragement is of all ages: In youth it is a presentiment, in old age a remembrance.

Irving Babbitt

To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it.

He sucks. I think he's a failure as a food critic,

Neale Donald Walsch

If you fail to go within, you will go without.

Jose Bergamin

To be ready to fail is to be prepared for success.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

For precisely when concepts fail one, Words are found at the right time.

Jo Coudert

There is no way of steering successfully between a failed situation and a failed self except by stopping and taking our bearings.

Jimmy Carter

Failure is a reality; we all fail at times, and it's painful when we do. But it's better to fail while striving for something wonderful, challenging, adventurous, and uncertain than to say, " I don't want to try because I may not succeed completely.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

The low was a lot lower than the high. When you fail with such high aspirations, the low is very low. We still haven't accomplished anything yet so we need to keep something in reserve.

The list of failures and shortcomings is long.

The job FEMA has done is terrible. I would give it a failing grade.

James Patterson

you plan to fail if you fail to plan

James Macdonald

I will not fail: God is always victorious.

Norman Vincent Peale

The man who lives for himself is a failure. Even if he gains much wealth, position or fortune, he is still a failure. The man who lives for others has achieved true success. A rich man who consecrates his wealth and his position to the good of humanity is a success.

Eric Ries

If you cannot fail, you cannot learn.

Ellis Hobbs

On the New England Patriots losing the Super Bowl after going 18-0: We set high expectations, now we go down as 18-1, and that is one big zit. It is one big blemish. We choked.

Oliver Goldsmith

And e'en his failings leaned to Virtue's side.

Hermann Hesse

How could I fail to be a lone wolf, and an uncouth hermit, as I did not share one of its aims nor understand one of its pleasures?

Hermann Hesse

All men of goodwill have this in common - that our works put us to shame.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Every man is in some sort a failure to himself. No one ever reaches the heights to which he aspires.