Nature lies, disheveled, pale, With her feverish lips apart,- Day by day the pulses fail, Nearer to her bounding heart.
I don't understand how any good art could fail to be political.
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.
I don't care whether I succeed or whether I fail as long as I am trying. I hope that I succeed.
I have never judged myself by other people’s standards. I have always expected a great deal of myself, and if I fail, I fail myself.
That's the whole key to anything: Don't be afraid to fail. And is not afraid to fail.
We must make democracy the popular creed. . . If we should fail to do this, our people are bound to suffer. . . That is what my father said. It is the reason why I am participating in this struggle.
. . . Too often we fail to recognize and pay tribute to the creative spirit. It is that spirit that creates our jobs.
When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.
You can get defeated, just as long as you don't fail.
When we enter into any relationship with the premise that we are empty and the other person will fill us in, we are sure to fail. We can only win when we proceed from wholeness.
If you must fail. . . fail spectacularly!
If you can't build relationships from nothing, you will fail. You must have that drive.
Attempt something so great for God that it is doomed to fail unless God is in it, and you're in it as well.
It is up to the leader to create a healthy environment where people are not afraid to fail. Mistakes should be seen as an integral part of the organizational process. They are a normal part of striving for excellence.
No-one wants to see anybody fail in life.
If I fail, I try again, and again, and again. If YOU fail, are you going to try again? The human spirit can handle much worse than we realize. It matters HOW you are going to FINISH. Are you going to finish strong?
Morning comes every day; the sunrise does not fail, nor the sunset. Give it time. That is all that may be required. Just give it time. Do not try to push the river. The cycles of life present themselves, play themselves out, and make smooth every passage and terrain. Try not to get caught up in your story of the moment. Look, rather, to the Long Story. Therein will be found your peace. The cycles will redeem this moment, if you let them, and even this shall pass.
For market discipline to constrain risk effectively, financial institutions must be allowed to fail. Under optimal financial regulatory and financial system infrastructures, such a failure would not threaten the overall system.
Try not to change the world. You will fail. Try to love the world. Lo, the world is changed. Changed forever.