Epigrams succeed where epics fail.
My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying. Don't be afrai...
Because in a small dark room, a broken child lies on a filthy bed and stares up at a high window. He waits for me, too. And I—I who have failed at everything and have failed everyone—I must not, I cannot, I will not fail him.
We will not overcome world poverty unless we manage climate change successfully. I've spent my life as a development economist, and it's crystal clear that we succeed or fail on winning the battle against world poverty and managing climate change tog...
Having written both comedy and drama, comedy's harder because the fear of failure's so much stronger. When you write a scene and you see it cut together, and it doesn't make you laugh, it hurts in a way that failed drama doesn't. Failed drama, it's a...
John McClane: Listen, you fail I cover your ass. I fail you cover my ass! Zeus Carver: And if we both fail? John McClane: Then we're both fucked!
Learning to fail is a virtue. Failing to learn is a sin.
If I fail, I should not fail for lack of trying, but in spite.
It's more successful to try and fail, than fail to try
Kyoami: The failed mind sees the heart's failings...
If all else fails, sleep with your mother.
That failure serves a purpose!
You will only fail to learn if you do not learn from failing.
When I have and failed, I shall have failed.
If I fail to succeed, I have succeeded in failing.
It is better to fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than to succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.
Creatives fail and the really good ones fail often.
To fail, try to please your critics. To please your critics, try to fail.
The reason that so many fail to find happiness is that they fail to find gratitude.
Those who try may not fail; but those who fail will not try.
If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail!
