Meanwhile after failing the bar twice, I knew some people in New York and moved here in August '71.

Without the assistance of that Divine Being...I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail.

People fail to understand that unless they are themselves willing to give, they will never receive.

You have to learn to take rejection not as an indication of personal failing but as a wrong address.

Sometimes paranoids have enemies, and conspiracies are only laughable when they fail to materialize.

You see, when medicine works, it is blessed science, and when it fails, it is witchcraft. - Polidori

The goodness you do might fail; but keep doing it, because the real failure is never doing goodness!

For all our failings, despite our limitations and fallibilities, we humans are capable of greatness.

there are many ways to fail. Some reject success. And others do not recognize it when success comes.

Though just biographical record will touch the failings of the good and the eminent with tenderness.

My first priority is my children, and when Brielle's grades were failing, I made it a big, big deal!

Every choice you make has a consequence, every one. It's mathematic. It cannot fail; it never fails.

Any time you try to create an Internet meme, automatic fail. That's like the worst thing you can do.

How could I pretend to be someone else when I was already failing at being the person I already was?

You do feel bad when things don't work. But you cannot succeed without failing. It goes hand-in-hand.

There have been times when I have failed. But there have never been times when I thought I would fail

Very few of the great leaders ever get through their careers without failing, sometimes dramatically.

Too many start up business fail simply because their owners continue to think and act like employees.

Liberalism is wrong because it doesn't work. If a company is too big to fail, it is too big to exist.

In show business the saying seems too often true: it isn't enough to succeed; someone else must fail.

I really do believe that if you don't challenge yourself and risk failing, that it's not interesting.

I simply don't believe in failure. In itself, it doesn't exist. We create it. We make ourselves fail.

I'm cool with failing so long as I know that there are people around me that love me unconditionally.

When you go to meetings or auditions and you fail to prepare, prepare to fail. It is simple but true.

The more you do stuff, the better you get at dealing with how you still fail at it a lot of the time.

Too many of us fail to fulfill our needs because we say no rather than yes, yes when we should say no.

Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.

It's bad policy to speculate on what you'll do if a plan fails when you're trying to make a plan work.

How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!

With 300 million people in America, you can fail to impress 299 million of them and still go platinum.

Sometimes it works, sometimes it fails, but that's what we face when we're dealing with improvisation.

As long as you gave it your best shot, even if in the opinion of others 'you failed,' you didn't fail.

The United Nations is our conscience. If it succeeds it is our success. If it fails it is our failure.

I fail every once in a while, but failing is your first attempt at learning. I'm not worried about it.

Basically, if reverse engineering is banned, then a lot of the open source community is doomed to fail.

In many cases for an actor it's a comfortable position to be in. But it's harder to fail as a director.

If you can get out there and say I'm going to...I'm willing to fail at what I feel is right, that's it.

When you find that it fails to respond adequately to your buying you don't need any better tip to sell.

Whether you prevail or fail depends more on what you do to yourself than on what the world does to you.

I would warn against holsters with devices for quick-draw. Devices always fail when you need them most.

Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.

To fail to pray, then, is not to merely break some religious rule- it is a failure to treat God as God.

The greatest success goes to the person who is not afraid to fail in front of even the largest audience.

The intellect has only one failing, which, to be sure, is a very considerable one. It has no conscience.

Failing doesn't have to mean not succeeding. It can be, 'Hey we tried that. We can go forward, smarter.'

Just as the hand that strikes the ground cannot fail, So is the ruin certain of him who cherishes anger.

You know what 'FAILING' stands for? It stands for 'Finding An Important Lesson, Inviting Needed Growth.'

I understood that I might fail, but I wouldn't let it happen because I changed my compass along the way.

I like what Abba Eban once said during the 1967 war. He said, "When all else fails, men turn to reason."

I have to do things for myself, and if those standards are set high, then it's up to me to pass or fail.

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