My mantra is: Realize you're going to fail all the time, and accept it. That doesn't mean I'm not frightened of it.

Most phenomenal startup teams create businesses that ultimately fail. Why? They built something that nobody wanted.

Waves are inspiring not because they rise and fail, but because each time they fall. They never fail to rise again.

Charter schools in particular have proven a lifeline for millions of children stuck in chronically failing schools.

If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.

There is no sorrow I have thought more about than that-to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to fail.

The Business story is designed to trigger the listener to take an effective action. If it doesn't, the story fails.

The success or failing in one competition doesn't define you, and that is one thing that any sports would teach you.

We teach children how to measure and how to weigh. We fail to teach them how to revere, how to sense wonder and awe.

It is an axiom nowadays that no bank fails for lack of capital; unprofitable lending is always the underlying cause.

Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails.

Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.

If something doesnt feel normal to me, it must be wrong. Failing to have a shred of imaginative empathy is a virtue!

The saddest things we fail at are fun things we never get to do, so in your busy day be sure to plan fun things too.

When you recognize that failing doesn't make you a failure, you give yourself permission to try all sorts of things.

In both religion and science, some people are dishonest, exploitative, incompetent and exhibit other human failings.

The midterms are a chance for people to vote out those they believe are failing to address the concerns of citizens.

The day the audience feel they are watching Parvathy instead of the character, that would be me failing as an actor.

Despite claims that there are good and bad cops, we know that the system is failing everyone - including the police.

To Kill A Mockingbird is one of my favourite novels, my mum brought me up reading it, and it never fails to move me.

One cannot withdraw from the life of the community. Injury to one member of it cannot fail to be the concern of all.

When we fail we are merely joining the great parade of humanity that has walked ahead of us and will follow after us.

Most businesses fail because they want the right things but measure the wrong things, and they get the wrong results.

The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates.

Beauty (was)a gift which, in the eyes of New York, justified every success, and excused a certain number of failings.

When lack of structure fails, it fails all at once. What works totally fine from 0-20 employees, is disastrous at 30.

Baseball is the ideal forum for teachiing the art of failure; the very best fail to get a hit seven out of ten times.

Do believe that if we fail to act in time, it will be the single biggest regret any of us has at the end of our lives.

The Lord is a Father, the most tender and best of fathers. He cannot fail to be moved when His children appeal to Him.

The movie industry is failing women. And until the industry starts making serious changes, nothing is going to change.

How beautiful it is to learn that Grace isn't fragile, and that in the family of God we can fail and not be a failure.

It is commonly the case with technologies that you can get the best insight about how they work by watching them fail.

If you surround yourself with talented people and you give them the freedom to achieve, then the work will never fail.

Blind is not the situation when people cannot see others but when people fail to feel or sense the existence of others

We're still under the weight of this impression that the ocean is too big to fail, that the planet is too big to fail.

Many innovations fail because consumers irrationally overvalue the old while companies irrationally overvalue the new.

... I never will allow myself to form an ideal of any person I desire to see, for disappointment never fails to ensue.

Failing to continue to support the public higher-ed system in California will have devastating long-term consequences.

I think there are really serious problems in this country and I think politics in a lot of ways is failing the country.

The best way not to fail again is to be absolutely positive that when you do it this time, you're going to do it right.

Only this is true, that beauty is very beautiful, and softens, and inspires, and rouses, and lifts up, and never fails.

We are more likely to fail as craftsmen due to our inability to organize obsession than because of our lack of ability.

Startups don’t fail because they lack a product; they fail because they lack customers and a profitable business model.

Those who succeed can't forgive a fellow for being a failure, and those who fail can't forgive him for being a success.

A writer's job is to cultivate what can go wrong. You're always looking for that dramatic arc of where things can fail.

The boldest stroke and best act of friendship is not to disclose our own failings to a friend, but to show him his own.

Despite failing to get bin Laden, the U.S. government and media portrayed the early Afghanistan war as a great victory.

Expose not the secret failings of mankind, otherwise you must verily bring scandal upon them and distrust upon yourself.

Revolutionary products don't fail because they are shipped too early. They fail because they aren't revised fast enough.

When a show fails to destroy the competition-and it can fail while attracting 20 million viewers-it is itself destroyed.

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