“ But screw your courage to the sticking-place, and we'll not fail. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 3.9K
“ So many fail because they don't get started — they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin. ”
- W. Clement Stone- Copy
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“ I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail. ”
- Woodrow T. Wilson- Copy
- 1.9K
“ That is why you fail. (in response to Luke saying, "I don't believe it."). ”
- Yoda- Copy
- 1.8K
“ The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed. ”
- Lloyd Jones- Copy
- 2.5K
“ If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays. ”
- Ezra- Copy
- 1.9K
“ To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail. ”
- Dorothea Brande- Copy
- 1.1K
“ No matter how hard you try to teach your cat general relativity, you're going to fail. ”
- Brian Greene- Copy
- 2.5K
“ Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure. ”
- Margaret Drabble- Copy
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“ The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head. ”
- Kurt Cobain- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. The only time you don't want to fail is the last time you try something… One fails forward toward success. ”
- Charles F. Kettering- Copy
- 2.6K
“ They never fail who dieIn a great cause: the block may soak their gore:Their heads may sodden in the sun; their limbsBe strung to city gates and castle walls — But still their Spirit walks abroad. Though yearsElapse, and others share as dark a doom,They but augment the deep and sweeping thoughtsWhich overpower all others, and conductThe world at last to Freedom. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
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“ The best years are the forties; after fifty a man begins to deteriorate, but in the forties he is at the maximum of his villainy. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
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“ Rule of Defactualization: Information deteriorates upward through bureaucracies. ”
- Unknown- Copy
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“ A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall. ”
- Vince Lombardi- Copy
- 2.8K
“ Each venture is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate with shabby equipment always deteriorating in the general mess of imprecision of feeling. ”
- T. S. Eliot- Copy
- 2.5K
“ Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 1.9K
“ I believe for example that the character of the people has deteriorated in the east of the County Leitrim and in the County Lonford, where Irish died out a generation ago. ”
- Douglas Hyde- Copy
- 2.3K
“ Intellect deteriorates after every surrender to folly unless we consciously resist, the nonsense does not pass by but into us. ”
- Jacques Barzun- Copy
- 2K
“ It doesn't make sense to talk about successful corporations in a society whose schools, hospitals, churches, symphonies, or libraries are deteriorating or closing. ”
- Clifton C. Garvin Jr.- Copy
- 747
“ There can be no real individual freedom in the presence of economic insecurity. ”
- Chester Bowles- Copy
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