The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Fail, and your friends feel superior. Succeed, and they feel resentful.
Mason Cooley

Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.
Mike Murdock

Men do not fail; they give up trying.
Elihu Root

If you fail the first time that's just a chance to start over again.
Lenny Wilkens

To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.
Dorthea Brande

Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy.
Charles Caleb Colton

I'd rather try and fail than not try at all, as they say.
Bobby Rahal

To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us.
Charles Caleb Colton

I think a failed state is the responsibility of the people who have made that state fail, and those are generally the people of that country.
Lakhdar Brahimi

The only thing Google has failed to do, so far, is fail.
John Battelle

For years, I had heard about the lack of interest in literature in the U.S. and I had complained about it. I failed to understand how people could fail to be moved by art.
Rita Dove

I want to be perfect. I don't want to fail. And you always fail.
Robin Wright Penn

When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.
Natalie Gulbis

Under adversity, under oppression, the words begin to fail, the easy words begin to fail. In order to convey things accurately, the human being is almost forced to find the most precise words possible, which is a precondition for literature.
Rita Dove

If you're going to fail, you might as well fail at the big ones.
Dean Kamen

Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.
Jean Rostand

There is an element of luck, there is an element of trial and error, sometimes you fail, sometimes you succeed. It's not as beautifully simple as it may seem when we are talking about it.
Lakhdar Brahimi

A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail.
Paul Wellstone

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
Beverly Sills