It is more of a disgrace to be robbed of what one has than to fail in some new undertaking. – Pericles
If an ad campaign is built around a weak idea – or as is so often the case, no idea at all – I don’t give a damn how good the execution is, it’s going to fail. – Morris Hite
It is better to fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than to succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail. – Peter Marshall
They will fight you, but they will fail. For I am with you, and I will take care of you. I, the Lord, have spoken! – The Bible Jeremiah 1:19
Basically, if reverse engineering is banned, then a lot of the open source community is doomed to fail. – Jon Johansen
The Home Guards are required to come in at once and deliver up their arms, those who fail to do so will be regarded as enemies of the Government and treated accordingly. – John Hunt Morgan
There are a few people who are, let’s say, personality-challenged, who would like to set up a cult, but in large part they fail due to the innate stroppiness and independence of their fellow pagans. – Liz Williams
Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing. – James Harvey Robinson
The Greek debt issue, for example, is such a threat because if that country ever defaulted, it might cause some bank that’s ‘too big to fail’ to actually fail. – Jerry A. Webman
Every word we speak calls on 37 muscles and thousands of nerves. It’s not surprising that sometimes these nerves and muscles fail us. – Kate Forsyth
Without equity, pandemic battles will fail. Viruses will simply recirculate, and perhaps undergo mutations or changes that render vaccines useless, passing through the unprotected populations of the planet. – Laurie Garrett
People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions. – Martin Luther
I love marriage. I failed at marriage, but I’d rather go into anything with gusto and fail than go into it half-assed. – Kirstie Alley
We all fail – I have failed so many times, but it never discourages me. I just pick up and go. – Jim Pattison
It is the stories we don’t get, the ones we miss, pass over, fail to recognize, don’t pick up on, that will send us to hell. – Molly Ivins