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Failing Quotes - Page 50

You never want to fail because you didn't work hard enough.

USC Commencement Address, about.usc.edu. May 15, 2009.

The soul may ask God for anything, and never fail.

Annie Dillard (2016). “Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters”, p.65, Canongate Books

It is my experience that no one, in the course of conversation, can fail to give themselves away sooner or later. Everyone has an irresistible urge to talk about themselves.

Agatha Christie (1974). “Murder on board: including The mystery of the Blue Train, What Mrs. McGillicuddy saw! [and] Death in the air”, Dodd Mead

If all else fails, you can always be a pro.

Source: filmschoolrejects.com

I understood that I might fail, but I wouldn't let it happen because I changed my compass along the way.

Adam Braun (2014). “The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change”, p.160, Simon and Schuster

You can not fail in any laudable object, unless you allow your mind to be improperly directed.

Abraham Lincoln (2009). “Abraham Lincoln: Selected Speeches and Writings”, p.119, Library of America

There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.

"Clinging to the wreckage" by A. S. Byatt, www.theguardian.com. September 6, 2002.