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there are risks you'll take for yourself because you know that if your plan goes wrong, it'll be too late for regrets. but if you risk the lives of others and fail, you'll have a lifetime to regret it.

The reason so many people fail to achieve success is because they fail to fail enough times.

There are some persons who never succeed from being too indolent to undertake anything; and others who regularly fail, because the instant they find success in their power, they grow indifferent, and give over the attempt.

There can be no freedom without freedom to fail.

The reason that so many fail to find happiness is that they fail to find gratitude.

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

There is a limit where the intellect fails and breaks down, and this limit is where the questions concerning God and freewill and immortality arise.

There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.

There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail

There are two sources of error: Either you lack sufficient data, or you fail to take advantage of the data that you have.

There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.

There is a glaring FEE in FrEEbie that most of the people, more often than not, fail to see.

There is no struggle too vast, no odds too overwhelming, for even should we fail - should we fall - we will know that we have lived.

There is a shabby nobility in failing all by yourself.

There's a moment in Sarah Manguso's The Guardians when she writes, "I try not to make anything up, and I fail every time." I get giddy when I come across lines like that - when the writer is not only making a meta-move, but one that troubles truth and fiction, the nature of genre itself.

There is the expectation that a younger generation has the opportunity to redeem the crimes and failings of their elders and would have the strength and idealism to do so.

There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.

There's no disgrace in failing, lad, Though friends and foes deride; In fact, a failure's not so bad As never having tried.

There's not a conspiracy to prevent really good writing from being found You have to have the humility to fail over and over and over.

There's nothing wrong with failing if you learn from it, and I've failed out here plenty.

There's no shame in failing. The only shame is not giving things your best shot.

There's something to be said for failing. It's not the failure you feel, it's the failure that people project when something disappoints. You're back to ground zero, where there's no expectations, and that's where I like to be.

The risk that is involved in trusting is stepping forth with willingness with a knowing that you can lose something or fail, and doing it anyways

The root of a nation's misfortunes has to be sought in the moral failings of the government.

There's nothing as exciting as a comeback - seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance.

There's nothing quite like the idea of failing spectacularly to excite a film maker

The saddest things we fail at are fun things we never get to do, so in your busy day be sure to plan fun things too.

The sage does not act and therefore does not fail, does not seize and therefore does not lose.

There's something about being a comedian that means you have to not be scared of failing because failing is part of the process.

The same feeling you get from succeeding is the same feeling I get from failing, now imagine what happens when I win.

These days I have to be extra nice in stores. It never fails that whenever I look as bad as I can possibly look or I am sort of cranky because the store is out of something, that is precisely the time when someone one will recognize me and say: 'I really like your show.'

The shadow disguises itself in our projections, when we react intensely to a trait in others that we fail to see in ourselves.

The shame in life is not to fail to reach your dream, but to fail to have a dream to reach.

The scary truth is 96 percent of mutual funds fail to match the market, and the 4 percent that do, they're always changing.

The Savior warns that if we start along the path and go far enough and then fail and deny Him, it would have been better if we had never begun.

The soul may ask God for anything, and never fail.

The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.

The studios still had development programs for young people. Because you weren't talking about the budgets of small nations the way you are now when you make a movie. There was a lot more freedom to fail.

The story of Americans is the story of arrested metamorphoses. Those who achieve success come to a halt and accept themselves as they are. Those who fail become resigned and accept themselves as they are.

The thing that has made the so-called Negro in America fail, more than any other thing, is your, my, lack of knowledge concerning history. We know less about history than anything else.

The things that'll make you fail I'll love always.

The trouble with a great many men is that they spread themselves out over too much ground. They fail in everything. If they would only put their life into one channel, and keep it in, they would accomplish something. They make no impression because they do a little work here and a little work there....Lay yourselves on the altar of God, and then concentrate on some one work.

The single biggest reason companies fail is they overinvest in what is, as opposed to what might be.

The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not its growth and development.

The term "too big to fail" must be excised from our vocabulary.

The thing about being a writer is that you never have to ask, 'Am I doing something that's worthwhile?' Because even if you fail at it, you know that it's worth doing.

The true test of relationships is not only how loyal someone is when we fail, but how thrilled they are when we succeed.

The truth is - most things are probably gonna fail. But my failures bring me to the next thing. So in that regard, nothing's a failure, it's a continuation.

The thing about taking risks is, if it’s really a risk, you really can fail. It’s only a pretend risk if you really can’t fail.

The True Church can never fail. For it is based upon a rock.