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Failing Quotes - Page 22

When we undertake the impossible, we often fail to do anything at all.

Theodore Roosevelt (2009). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”, p.146, Courier Corporation

Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.

Terry Pratchett (2009). “Maskerade: (Discworld Novel 18)”, p.81, Random House

We are, in the end, a sum of our parts, and when the body fails, all the virtues we hold dear go with it.

Susannah Cahalan (2012). “Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

Incuriosity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.

Stephen Fry (2012). “The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography”, p.54, The Overlook Press

The fearful are the failing.

Sarah Josepha Hale (1850). “Dictionary of poetical quotations”, p.450

Reproof should not exhaust its power upon petty failings.

Samuel Johnson, Hester Lynch Piozzi, James Boswell (1787). “The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous, to which are Now Added, Biographical Anecdotes of the Doctor, Selected from the Late Productions of Mrs. Piozzi, Mr. Boswell, ...”, p.245

Fail fast, fail hard, fail often.

"Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani". "This Week" with Martha Raddatz, abcnews.go.com. January 11, 2014.