If you make comedy, if you try and make comedy where no one gets upset or offended, you're going to fail.
Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.
For the lessons one fails to learn during peacetime, one pays a high price in war.
It was a big decision to leave the system because many people said I would fail.
I have failed a lot in my philanthropy, where I will make philanthropic contributions and they just won't be effective.
I routinely failed to understand that 'simple and straightforward' would have been a much better product strategy for Lotus.
The mystique associated with the bomb, the role that scientists played in it, and its general importance could not fail to impress even a six-year old.
A dream doesn't die because it has no truth. It dies because you fail to nurture it.
Our poems will have failed if our readers are not brought by them beyond the poems.
I brought one big question with me to Harvard. Why do smart companies fail?
Customers want high-quality food, good service, and good store experience, and most retailers fail to deliver on those.
I failed first grade, which is my biggest problem. You always feel like a failure, like you're stupid.
I think you have to try and fail, because failure gets you closer to what you're good at.
I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.
Never be afraid to fail. Failure is only a stepping stone to improvement. Never be overconfident because that will block your improvement.
I went to Jersey City State College to please a family member. I wasn't prepared for school. To say I failed out is putting it nicely.
I have failed to continue to set an example for a secure, loving family unit as an example for our children. That is the reality of it. There is no way of getting around it.
Negro banks, as a rule, have failed because the people, taught that their own pioneers in business cannot function in this sphere, withdrew their deposits.
Whether it was turning around failing companies, rescuing the Olympics, or improving the business climate in Massachusetts, Mitt Romney has proven that he is ready to be president on Day One.
Maybe you will be afraid and maybe you will fail, but the courage to take risks in any part of your life is, I feel, a very worthwhile way to live.
Now it is evident that a little insight into the customs of every people is necessary to insure a kindly communication; this, joined with patience and kindness, will seldom fail with the natives of the interior.
