We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it. — Robert Baden-Powell
Maybe you will be afraid and maybe you will fail, but the courage to take risks in any part of your life is, I feel, a very worthwhile way to live. — Emile Hirsch
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you. — Frank Lloyd Wright
I'm not afraid to fail...I'm scared to death of dying and having the Lord say to me, 'Angelica, this is what you might have done had you trusted more. — Mother Angelica
If plan A fails, remember there are 25 more letters.
First Attempt Failure Quotes
I don’t understand the concept of failure. If you don’t succeed at everything you do on your first attempt, does that mean you ‘failed’? Isn’t it a good thing that you keep coming back and working at it until you succeed? How can that be a failure? — Tim Grover
Exactly 5,126 attempts to make the first bagless vacuum cleaner were failures-some catastrophic disappointments, some minor defects. It took 15 years. Prototype 5,127 was the success ... Failure is painful, but it spurs on improvement like nothing else. — James Dyson
It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the master work. Now, I'm beginning what I could have started ten years ago. But I'm happy at least that I didn't wait twenty years. — Paulo Coelho
Don't fear the failure... in great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
I must have no fear of failure. It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the Master Work. — Paulo Coelho
When I was about 15... I made my first attempt as a leading lady, and was, of course, a complete failure. — Maude Adams
When I was about 15... I made my first attempt as a leading lady, and was, of course, a complete failure. — Maud Adams
Failed Date Quotes
When relationships fail it is usually because someone chooses not to show up for the battle. — Shannon Alder
Age is just a number, and your talent will never fail you. It has no expiry date. — Madhuri Dixit
Forget all the bars and schmoozing and everybody checking out everybody else. My ideal date would be to park in a dark place, check out the stars, and have a great conversation. When all else fails, you can just make out. — Brooke Burke
Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.
So if I was dating somebody now and the relationship didn't work out, I'd take that as failing. — Gavin DeGraw
I have no-fail chemistry. A guy turns me on, he's the wrong one for me. — Linda Barnes
What organized dating sites fail to understand is that the people are far more interesting in what they don't say about themselves. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
Cabel smiles and hangs up. "Guess what." What," Janie says. We can go out on our first date." Woo hoo!" And guess what else- You're buying." Me? Why?" Because you lost the bet." Janie thinks for a moment. Punches Cabel in the arm. "You did not fail five quizzes or tests!" I did. I have proof. — Lisa McMann
Can't Fail Quotes
You can't measure success if you have never failed. My father has taught me that if you really do want to reach your goals, you can't spend any time worrying about whether you're going to win or lose. Focus only on getting better. — Steffi Graf
Failure is an option. It's what you do with the failure that makes you who you are. Our failures mold us. I have failed at several things in my life. What sets some of us apart, is that when we fail, we can't sleep at night. It haunts us until we have our time at redemption. — David Goggins
A man can fail, but he isn't a failure until he blames someone else. — J. Paul Getty
The MASTER has failed more times than beginner has even TRIED.
A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. — John Burroughs
Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know. I truly believe what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Even if you fail, learning and moving on is sometimes the best thing. — Danica Patrick
Decide what you want, and then act as if it were impossible to fail.
So many groups fail because they spend all their time in the clubs. Work pours in and they can't handle it because of late-night drinking. — Maurice Gibb
In order to succeed greatly, you have to be prepared to fail greatly. If you can't do both of them, you've got a problem. — Mike Tyson
I wish I could've lived my life without making any wrong turns. But that's impossible. A path like that doesn't exist. We fail. We trip. We get lost. We make mistakes. And little by little, one step at a time, we push forward. It's all we can do. On our own two feet. — Natsuki Takaya
Without your involvement you can't succeed. With your involvement you can't fail. — Abdul Kalam
When Things Fail Quotes
The hardest thing is to forgive, but God does, even if you murdered or robbed, ya it's wrong, but God loves, take one step toward him he'll take two toward you, even when all else fails, God'll support you — Nas
You fail, and then what? Life goes on. It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. — Lupita Nyong'o
Progress is the product of human agency. Things get better because we make them better. Things go wrong when we get too comfortable, when we fail to take risks or seize opportunities. — Susan Rice
You only fail when you stop trying.
It's not about how you are when things go well, what defines you is how you are when you fail from an obstacle. — Georges St-Pierre
When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome. Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment. What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail? — Robert H. Schuller
Once you're on stage you can't go back, even when things go wrong people expect you to stay there and entertain them. When all else fails, you've got to try tap dancing. — Angus Young
Everyone must fail once or twice, before they learn how to get back up.
When things go bad, it's easy to point fingers. People who attempt to switch the blame are afraid to fail. We've all been afraid to fail before a game, but it shouldn't stop us from continuing, and from doing what we have to do to get the job done. — John Elway
When you recognize that failing doesn't make you a failure, you give yourself permission to try all sorts of things. — Lauren Fleshman
When each day is the same as the next, it’s because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises. — Paulo Coelho
But when I lose my temper, I find it difficult to forgive myself. I feel I've failed. I can be calm in a crisis, in the face of death or things that hurt badly. I don't get hysterical, which may be masochistic of me. — Emma Thompson
New Attempt Quotes
No new creation or destruction of matter is within the reach of chemical agency. We might as well attempt to introduce a new planet into the solar system, or to annihilate one already in existence, as to create or destroy a particle of hydrogen. — John Dalton
The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it? — H. G. Wells
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
The reality is that a consumer culture which chucks out its iPhones for a new version every nine months is completely unsustainable, because Earth has already reached the tipping point. 'The General Strike' attempts to personalize these issues and encourage listeners to look for a new model. — Justin Sane
Of course we all have our limits, but how can you possibly find your boundaries unless you explore as far and as wide as you possibly can? I would rather fail in an attempt at something new and uncharted than safely succeed in a repeat of something I have done. — A.E. Hotchner
Of course we all have our limits, but how can you possibly find your boundaries unless you explore as far and as wide as you possibly can? I would rather fail in an attempt at something new and uncharted than safely succeed in a repeat of something I have done. — A. E. Hotchner
I later spent... five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release. — John Forbes Nash, Jr.
The person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere. — Xunzi
Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian. — Emma Goldman
The fact is that the mind is only a bundle of thoughts. The mind is fattened by new thoughts rising up. Therefore it is foolish to attempt to kill the mind by means of the mind. The only way of doing it is to find its source and hold on to it. The mind will then fade away of its own accord. — Ramana Maharshi
Make An Attempt Quotes
That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen. — Charles Bukowski
The attempt to divide art and politics is a bourgeois which says good poetry, art, cannot be political, but since everything is … political, even an artist or work that claims not to have any politics is making a political statement by that act. — Amiri Baraka
I don't watch the movies I make, so I haven't seen 'Footloose' since it came out. You see this young, hungry actor, it's pretty fun. I was the only one they screen tested. It was an attempt by the director and producer to talk the head of the studio into hiring me because they didn't want me. — Kevin Bacon
The social disease of political correctness has entered daily life, inverting good to bad and attempting to rewrite proud histories as an imposition of white supremacy for which we all should make contrition. — Robert Agostinelli
Here, then, is what I wanted to tell you of my architecture. I created it with courage and idealism, but also with an awareness of the fact that what is important is life, friends and attempting to make this unjust world a better place in which to live. — Oscar Niemeyer
If you want something badly enough, make an attempt. If you want to paint, get a brush and do it. If you want to sing, sing. A lot of people get scared. They're afraid to fail. Take that word out of your vocabulary. You don't "fail." You've "tried your best." — Jane Seymour
One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations. . . is that in political, military, moral, and spiritual confrontations, there should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat — Jimmy Carter
The space shuttle was often used as an example of why you shouldn't even attempt to make something reusable. But one failed experiment does not invalidate the greater goal. If that was the case, we'd never have had the light bulb. — Elon Musk
Today a thousand doors of enterprise are open to you, inviting you to useful work. To live at this time is an inestimable privilege, and a sacred obligation devolves upon you to make right use of your opportunities. Today is the day in which to attempt and achieve something worthwhile. — Grenville Kleiser
Failed To Accomplish Quotes
You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing. — Richard P. Feynman
Everyone has the ability to accomplish unique feats, everyone. You choose this. Become someone great in one other life. Forget about failing to many. Who cares? Doesn't matter when you start or finish, just start, no deviations, no excuses. — Tom Platz
When a child makes a mistake or fails to accomplish a certain goal, we must avoid any word or action which indicates that we consider him a failure. 'Too bad that didn't work.' 'I'm sorry it didn't work out for you.' We need to separate the deed from the doer. — Rudolf Dreikurs
With each failure you move one step closer to success. It’s when you give up that you truly fail. — Pat Flynn
All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts. — James Allen
Enthusiastic partisans of the idea of progress are in danger of failing to recognize the immense riches accumulated by the human race. By underrating the achievements of the past, they devalue all those which still remain to be accomplished. — Claude Levi-Strauss
Enthusiastic partisans of the idea of progress are in danger of failing to recognize... the immense riches accumulated by the human race. By underrating the achievements of the past, they devalue all those which still remain to be accomplished. — Claude LeviStrauss
Economy, prudence, and a simple life are the sure masters of need, and will often accomplish that which, their opposites, with a fortune at hand, will fail to do. — Clara Barton
In Japan, mothers insist on achievement and accomplishment as a sign of love and respect. Thus to fail places children in a highly shamed situation. — Michael Lewis
The revolution in Nicaragua was the first of its kind to be accomplished with the mass support of Christians, a fact that cannot fail to influence the further development of revolutionary movements in the whole of Latin America, whose inhabitants are predominantly Christian. — Ernesto Cardenal
First Attempt Quotes
The Kiss scene was attempted three times. The first was in a peculiar spot of the fort on the ground level. It felt forced to me, and I knew right away that, in spite of what others were saying, it was dead wrong. — Madeleine Stowe
Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism. — Hermann Hesse
The Popular Unity government represented the first attempt anywhere to build a genuinely democratic transition to socialism - a socialism that, owing to its origins, might be guided not by authoritarian bureaucracy, but by democratic self-rule. — Salvador Allende
The first step in learning to love others is the attempt to understand them. — Adrienne von Speyr
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome. — Samuel Johnson
Well, I see I am not designed to the finding out the Philosophers Stone, I have been so unlucky in my first attempts in chemistry. — Robert Boyle
Entropy theory is indeed a first attempt to deal with global form; but it has not been dealing with structure. All it says is that a large sum of elements may have properties not found in a smaller sample of them. — Rudolf Arnheim
It doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it's important to realize that whatever you're doing, it's your first attempt at it. — Wally Amos
It is safest to grasp the concept of the postmodern as an attempt to think the present historically in an age that has forgotten how to think historically in the first place. — Fredric Jameson
If the United Nations does not attempt to chart a course for the world's people in the first decades of the new millennium, who will? — Kofi Annan
Unsuccessful Quotes
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, What's in it for me? — Brian Tracy
If successful and unsuccessful people share the same goals, then the goal cannot be what differentiates the winners from the losers. — James Clear
Try to remember that being unsuccessful in school doesn't automatically mean you'll be unsuccessful in life. Lots of people who didn't excel in school still went on to have successful lives. — Dav Pilkey
Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. — Brian Tracy
Our challenge in life is to use the abilities we have, and to compensate for the abilities we don’t have. Successful people compensate for what they don’t have. Unsuccessful people make excuses, blame everyone else and never get past the deficiencies. — Tim Grover
Nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. — Calvin Coolidge
The difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is the willingness to do what others won’t. — Andrew Tate
Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly. — Napoleon Hill
The Llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat, with an indolent expression and an undulating throat; like an unsuccessful literary man. — Hilaire Belloc
The crushing, pitiful, and frequently just plain risible pathos of an unsuccessful actor/performer's life is well charted. — Arabella Weir
Last Attempt Quotes
The Durham report gives us more information about what was already clear: The last President was framed for treason by his own intelligence agencies, in an attempted coup. Truly one of the craziest stories in US history. — Dave Smith
The problem is, is that President Bush and the Republican leadership in the Congress have resisted attempts to increase dramatically our fuel economy standards over the last five years. — Ed Markey
You can't go to the bathroom alone... you might not come back. Cause no girl's ever been to the bathroom alone and survived. It's true. The last woman that attempted it, it was 1937 and her name was Amelia Earhart. — Iliza Shlesinger
The Cape Town is considerably increased within the last eight years. Its respectability with regard to strength has kept pace with its other enlargements and rendered it very secure against any attempt which is not made with considerable force. — William Bligh
Each way to suicide is its own: intensely private, unknowable, and terrible. Suicide will have seemed to its perpetrator the last and best of bad possibilities, and any attempt by the living to chart this final terrain of life can be only a sketch, maddeningly incomplete — Kay Redfield Jamison
Stopping before you reach the goal does not make the discouragement go away. All it does is make the discouragement permanent. Instead, keep going, keep making the attempt, until you make that last, fulfilling attempt that brings the success you desire. — Ralph Marston
True success is always the last of a string of failed attempts to get it right. — Walter Inglis Anderson
The last ever dolphin message was misinterpreted as a surprisingly sophisticated attempt to do a double-backwards-somersault through a hoop whilst whistling the 'Star Spangled Banner', but in fact the message was this: So long and thanks for all the fish. — Douglas Adams
Al Gore has made no serious attempt to level the playing field for U.S. agriculture exports, which have fallen 16 percent in the last three years. And Al Gore has opposed every serious proposal to provide American farmers with meaningful tax relief. — Dan Quayle
For starters, let's dispense with the cheap jokes about cannibalism. That means cracks about giving an arm and a leg - sorry - for a good book on the subject, or similar tasteless - sorry, again - attempts to make the subject more palatable - last one. — Mitchell Zuckoff
I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. — Michael Jordan
Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. Failing for Success — Thomas A. Edison
Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do. — Pope John XXIII
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