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It was bewildering and humbling to keep discovering how many brave things people can fail to talk themselves out of doing.

It wasn't enough for Megadeth to do well; I wanted Metallica to fail.

It will make you powerful. But it will also make you weak. Your prowess in combat will be beyond any mortal's, but your weaknesses, your failings will increase as well." You mean I'll have a bad heel?" I said. "Couldn't I just, like, wear something besides sandals? No offense.

I've always thought tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But to refuse the test is to refuse the gift, and something worse, more irrevocable, than misfortune.

I've heard all my life that 'this is impossible, you can't make' it and 'you're going to fail' but I didn't listen to them and I made it.

I've permitted myself to learn and to fail with some regularity. And that is probably the one thing I was given, and that I'm still grateful for.

I wanted to find my limitations so I decided to do Shylock. And if I fail? I've never been afraid of that. I have other fears - doing bad work knowingly is the worst fear.

I wanted to stay hooked because it was the first time I've been part of the tradition where forgetting was just fine. You do it, you try, you forget, you fail.

I've always believed in my abilities. Nobody ever gave me anything in life. I had to work for everything I got. It may have gotten really rocky for a while, but I persevered, because I'm not afraid of failing.

I will never slide, never fall, never fail.

I want to be perfect. I don't want to fail. And you always fail.

I will not fail, I will not disappoint you, I will not let you down.

I was kind of scared of failing at acting.

I would always rather shoot for something unique and fail than do a script because I feel like they're hitting all the right mainstream beats.

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

I would rather fail trying than succeed at doing nothing.

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

Just don't let the human factor fail to be a factor at all

I wouldn't be where I am now if I didn't fail ... a lot. The good, the bad, it's all part of the success equation.

Jesus praised faith and trust – even more than love. It takes a foundational trust to fall, or to fail, and not to fall apart.

Justice lacking passion fails, betrays.

Kindness to children, love for children, goodness to children-- these are the only investments that never fail.

Keep your head up and smile, because someone somewhere wants to see you fail.

Laughter is a celebration of our failings. That's what clowns are for. And that's what I am.

Ladies and gentlemen, the economic disaster, the tailspin, the destruction of the greatest economic engine in the history of the world, these policies of Barack Obama's, which have led us to this point, are precisely why I fearlessly said and still say, I hope he fails.

Learn how to fail intelligently.

Learning takes us through many states of life, but it fails utterly in the hour of danger and temptation. Then faith alone saves.

Let none henceforth seek needless cause to approve The faith they owe; when earnestly they seek Such proof, conclude, they then begin to fail.

Knowing that you have working with you a force, which never yet has failed in anything it has undertaken, you can go ahead in the confident knowledge that it will not fail in your case, either.

Learning that you have stamina is an excellent thing to know. If a project fails, I know I can pick myself up.

Let every emotion be capable becoming an intoxication to you. If what you eat fails to make you drunk, it is because you are not hungry enough.

Let's all commit ourselves to the basic civility of minding our own business. Failing that, let's go back to a time when we were nasty and judgmental, but only behind one another's backs.

Let’s love ourselves, then we can’t fail, To make a better situation. Tomorrow, our seeds will grow, All we need is dedication!

Let us be very gentle with our neighbors' failings, and forgive our friends their debts as we hope ourselves to be forgiven.

Liberals get credit for good intentions, and that's about it, because everything they do fails.

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

Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.

Life is evanescent, but left to itself it rarely fails to offer some consolation.

Life insurance companies are failing to pay out death benefits when they know the person is dead, and they're claiming they don't know.

Let your motto then always be 'Excelsior', for by living up to it there is no such word as fail.

Likewise the leader of any state has to do the same, he has to enforce Shariah firmly, for he will be held in account later in the afterlife if he fails.

Lords of immortality will always fail in the material world.

Love and build, love and work, love and fight. Always love first. Anything placed before love will fail.

Love is not blind; it simply enables one to see things others fail to see.

Live in such a way that unless God shows up what you're attempting to do is bound to fail. This is the nature of the Gospel.

Love as a concrete foundation for an authentically functional civilization requires the around-the-clock labors of forgiveness. Without it, Love fails, Friendship fails, Intelligence fails, Humanity: fails.

Making an honest mistake is acceptable. Failing to fix it is not.

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

Man is certain of nothing but his ability to fail. It is the deepest faith we have, and the unbeliever- the blasphemer, the dissenter- will stimulate in us the most righteous of furies.

Many financial advisors recommend that you diversify for your own protection. What they fail to tell you is that it is also for their protection. Since most financial advisors cannot tell you exactly which stock or mutual fund is a great investment, they tell you to buy a bunch of them.