"You never want to fail because you didn't work hard enough."
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"I will not fail, I will not disappoint you, I will not let you down."
"Calamities that are not the result of purely natural phenomena usually have their origins, distant and obscure though they may be, in common human failings."
"Men prosper or fail, survive or perish in proportion to the degree of their rationality."
"One must never fail to pronounce moral judgment."
"You cannot fail, you can only produce results."
"If wishes would prevail with me, my purpose should not fail with me."
"If you aren't failing, you aren't trying."
"If you are not failing now and again, its a sign you are not doing anything very innovative"
"If you aren't failing every now and then, you're probably playing it too safe."
"If faith fails, prayer perishes."
"How can you fail a test you aren't allowed to prepare for?"
"I try. I fail. I try again. I fail better."
"A fallible being will fail somewhere."
"Either dragons should exist completely or fail to exist at all, he felt. A dragon only half-existing was worse than the extremes."
"Solitude is so necessary both for society and for the individual that when society fails to provide sufficient solitude to develop the inner life of the persons who compose it, they rebel and seek false solitudes."
"The scary truth is 96 percent of mutual funds fail to match the market, and the 4 percent that do, they're always changing."
"The difference between those who succeed and those who fail isn't what they have'it's what they choose to see and do with their resources and their expertise of life."
"I will do this. Nothing in my life matters except this. No moment of my life exists except this moment. I am born in this moment, and if I fail, I will die in this moment."
"If you feel like you're in control of everything, and then things aren't going well, you feel like you're failing."