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"When it comes down to it, at the end of the day, I need more out of my life and I need to push myself harder. And if at the end of the day I don't have it, then I don't have it, but at least I'm going to put myself out there. If I fail, I'm going to fail terrifically."
"Show me a completely contented person and I'll show you a failure."
". . . I fail to find a trace [in Protestantism] of any desire to set reason free. The most that can be discovered is a proposal to change masters. From being a slave of the papacy, the intellect was to become the serf of the Bible."
"If you are going to succeed, you must deal with what caused you to fail"
"We fail when we give up too soon."
"If I fail more than you do, I win."
"If you fail, learn, and move on, you're growing."
"You need to have the courage to fail."
"If you never quit, youll never fail."
"Quacks pretend to cure other men's disorders, but fail to find a remedy for their own."
"The European single currency is bound to fail, economically, politically and indeed socially, though the timing, occasion and full consequences are all necessarily still unclear."
"Liberalism is wrong because it doesn't work. If a company is too big to fail, it is too big to exist."
"Now he must not go the wrong way round the circuit, and unless he can spin himself stationary through 360 degrees I fail to see how he can avoid doing so."
"Someday, without fail, everyone will disappear, scattered into the blackness of time."
"What can be said, lacks reality. Only what fails to make its way into words exists and counts."
"I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish."
"Don't be afraid to fail big, to dream big."
"It is better to fail at your own life than to succeed at someone else's."
"Failure isn't an option. I've erased the word fear from my vocabulary and I think when you erase fear you can't fail."
"Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail."
