I would rather lose in a cause that I know some day will triumph than to triumph in a cause that I know some day will fail.

If you try to follow everyone else's mold, you'll probably fail at some point because God created us uniquely for a reason.

Trust yourself in tight situations, but you need to have a plan. You might fail once, twice, but you will get better at it.

Normally, in the presence of radiation, communication links fail. But with autonomous robots, you don't need communications.

It is the stories we don't get, the ones we miss, pass over, fail to recognize, don't pick up on, that will send us to hell.

When you lose, you're more motivated. When you win, you fail to see your mistakes and probably no one can tell you anything.

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

A zombie film is not fun without a bunch of stupid people running around and observing how they fail to handle the situation.

You always think, no matter how many times you fail, that the next time you will succeed. Otherwise you wouldn't keep trying.

We need to think deeply about whether we can sustain banks that are not only too big to fail, but potentially too big to bail.

Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.

The amazing thing is that the more money it takes for a movie to get made, the more you feel like everybody wants you to fail.

We can scale the heights of mountains and see the world rayed out before us, but we fail to recognize that which is before us.

The experiments show quite clearly that, as you resist more and more temptation, you're actually more and more likely to fail.

Although one may fail to find happiness in theatrical life, one never wishes to give it up after having once tasted its fruits.

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.

I've never thought I wanted to quit in my research. I would always fail in experiments, which I did at least three times a day.

It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.

Too many of us fail to fulfill our needs because we say no rather than yes, or perhaps later in life, yes when we should say no.

The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.

Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the dead.

Forget about banks that are too big to fail; the focus should be on cities, municipalities and countries that are too big to fail.

In fact, my New Year's resolution every year, and I'm Jewish so I get two New Years a year, is to meditate, and I fail every time.

I think that the Occupy movement is, in one sense, the public saying that they should be the ones to decide who's too big to fail.

Whenever I've had success, I never learn from it. Success usually breeds a degree of hubris. When you fail, that's when you learn.

The overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests.

Those who make happiness the chief objective of life are bound to fail, for happiness is a by-product rather than an end in itself.

I think any time people behave in a way that's truly them, then they'll never fail. You get in trouble when you try to copy others.

The price of being close to the President is delivering bad news. You fail him if you don't tell him the truth. Others won't do it.

We talk about institutions that are too big to fail - I think the story is as much about people who think they are too big to fail.

When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.

I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.

Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing to fail are the dangers and splendors of life.

I don't understand why some people get access to the universe and other people feel like they're meant to just be stagnant and fail.

Generally speaking, the more money that's involved in anything, the more people are expecting and hoping that it's not going to fail.

Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Leaders of organisations, political parties and large businesses frequently fail to talk in a straight and entirely truthful fashion.

The Obama administration's plan is to have the Federal Reserve regulate banks that might pose a 'systemic risk' if they were to fail.

Artists have a responsibility to speak and to act when governments fail, and if we don't do that, we really deserve the world we get.

What do we know to be true about gang violence? We know we will fail if we fixate on the symptoms and not address what undergirds it.

We're giving our freedoms away. The American experiment was about freedom. Freedom to be stupid, freedom to fail, freedom to succeed.

We fail to see that we can control our destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become whatever we long to be.

Writing is frustration - it's daily frustration, not to mention humiliation. It's just like baseball: you fail two-thirds of the time.

It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.

I have always tried to make profitable films because people's offices shut down if films fail, and I will do everything to avoid that.

For this is the journey that men and women make, to find themselves. If they fail in this, it doesn't matter much else what they find.

Every child matters. If we fail our children, we are bound to fail our present, our future, faith, cultures, and civilisations as well.

It's one thing to fail with something you utterly believe in, but to fail with something you don't believe in? You just feel so sordid.

I'm not saying I look cool, but every single time I go onstage, it is a fail if I don't feel like I'm going to pass out at least twice.

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

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