He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
Paul Tillich

High-level, big-deal publicity has a way of getting old for me, but what never fails to thrill me is when I make personal appearances.
Joseph Barbera

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.
Michael Jordan

I know why most people never get rich. They put the money ahead of the job. If you just think of the job, the money will automatically follow. This never fails.
Hedy Lamarr

I like to feel that all my best photographs had strong personal visions and that a photograph that doesn't have a personal vision or doesn't communicate emotion fails.
Galen Rowell

I mean it shouldn't hang you up emotionally if your record fails.
Bruce Johnston

I still feel that a movie has to attempt to say something - even if it fails miserably. But I've sort of given up on believing that I'm going to change the world with every film I choose to act in.
Sarah Polley

I think today that it is essential that the Rwandan tribunal continues to prosecute efficiently. And if the U.N. fails to do that, it is sending entirely the wrong message to people who are in the position to complete these atrocities again.
Tony Greig

I think when you're doing a lead role, there is so much more pressure. If you fail, not only do you fail, but everybody else fails, too. As opposed to when it's a supporting role and it's only you that sucked.
Leelee Sobieski

If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
John Kenneth Galbraith

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

If all else fails, there's always print or web zines.
Rudy Rucker

If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.
William James

If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.
Emma Goldman

If Obama fails to win reelection, let the blame be first laid at the door of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who at a pivotal point threw gasoline on the flames by comparing angry American citizens to Nazis.
Camille Paglia

If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.
Pearl S. Buck

If Plan A fails, they could always revert to Plan A.
Mark Lawrenson

If the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory.
Jefferson Davis

If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all.
Elizabeth I

If you hype something and it succeeds, you're a genius - it wasn't a hype. If you hype it and it fails, then it was just a hype.
Neil Bogart