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The only thing worse than a Mexican Stand Off is a Peace Pact that Fails! -- Stanley Victor Paskavich
One fails forward toward success. -- Charles Kettering
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Goodness is the only investment that never fails. -- Henry David Thoreau
If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all. -- Elizabeth I
It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails. -- Romain Rolland
I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying. -- Michael Jordan
If the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory. -- Jefferson Davis
The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit. -- Samuel Gompers
Any commander who fails to exceed his authority is not of much use to his subordinates. -- Arleigh Burke
Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success. -- C. S. Lewis
You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one. -- Rush Limbaugh
It would seem that the ant works its way tentatively, and, observing where it fails, tries another place and succeeds. -- Richard Jefferies
Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life. -- Wislawa Szymborska
We will fail God, we will fail our family, and our family might fail us at times, but God never fails us. -- Nick Vujicic
When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point. -- Maria Callas
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Nothing lifts me out of a bad mood better than a hard workout on my treadmill. It never fails. Exercise is nothing short of a miracle. -- Cher
If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus. -- Emma Goldman
If you look at suicides, most of them are connected to depression. And the mental health system just fails them. It's so sad. We know what to do. We just don't do it. -- Rosalynn Carter
Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No doubt, in certain instances this deterrence actually works. But generally speaking it fails conspicuously. -- Barbara Deming
The earth is bountiful, and where her bounty fails, nitrogen drawn from the air will refertilize her womb. I developed a process for this purpose in 1900. It was perfected fourteen years later under the stress of war by German chemists. -- Nikola Tesla
In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence. -- Thomas Merton
The Declaration of Independence says when government fails, the people have the right to replace it. Well, New York State government has failed and the people have the right, indeed the people have the the people have the obligation, to act. -- Andrew Cuomo
As international support for Obama's decision to attack Syria has collapsed, along with the credibility of government claims, the administration has fallen back on a standard pretext for war crimes when all else fails: the credibility of the threats of the self-designated policeman of the world. -- Noam Chomsky
I think one of the lessons of the Depression - and this is something that Franklin Roosevelt demonstrated - was that when orthodoxy fails, then you need to try new things. And he was very willing to try unorthodox approaches when the orthodox approach had shown that it was not adequate. -- Ben Bernanke
When an attacker fails with one person, they often go to another person. The key is to report the attack to other departments. Workers should know to act like they are going along with what the hacker wants and take copious notes so the company will know what the hacker is trying to find. -- Kevin Mitnick
Real love never fails. -- Karen Kingsbury
Nothing fails like failure -- Margaret Drabble
Nothing fails like success. -- Richard Pascale
Simple works, complex fails. -- Timothy Ferriss
When all else fails, philosophize. -- J. M. Coetzee
Violence begins when imagination fails. -- Stephen Evans
Justice lacking passion fails, betrays. -- Jane Hirshfield
Gold--the picklock that never fails. -- Philip Massinger
If faith fails, prayer perishes. -- Saint Augustine
Everything fails, all the time. -- Werner Vogels
Sometimes one succeeds, sometimes one fails. -- Harold Bloom
When levitation fails, a ladder prevails. -- Becky Stark
When all else fails, complicate matters. -- Aaron Allston
Gentle persuasion succeeds where force fails. -- Aesop
When all else fails, complicate matters -- Aaron Allston
Where instinct fails, intellect must venture. -- Jim Butcher
Everything seems stupid when it fails. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Death haunts everyone and never fails. -- David Gemmell
When all else fails, fresh tactics! -- John Travolta
When all else fails, dream bigger. -- Ellen Hopkins
When all else fails, look cute. -- Jim Davis
When reason fails, the devil helps! -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Prayer succeeds when all else fails -- Edward McKendree Bounds
When all else fails, start running! -- Dean Karnazes
When all else fails, tell the truth. -- Donald T. Regan
When all else fails...be a rockstar -- Billie Joe Armstrong
Memory doesn't erase. The recall ability fails. -- James Cook
Rashness succeeds often, still more often fails. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never. -- Theodore Parker
No man fails who does his best. -- Orison Swett Marden
Everyone makes mistakes. Everyone fails at something. -- David Gemmell
The proverb answers where the sermon fails. -- William Gilmore Simms
When strict with oneself, one rarely fails. -- Confucius
When all else fails, read the instructions. -- Agnes Allen
It is the empiric who never fails. -- Robert Aris Willmott
Belief fuels passion, and passion rarely fails. -- Mac Anderson
War is what happens when language fails. -- Margaret Atwood
When all else fails, throw a party! -- Eugene Walter
Where love fails we espy all faults. -- John Ray
The person who fails the most wins. -- Seth Godin
When all else fails, God never fails. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
When all else fails, take a vacation. -- Betty Williams
When talent fails, indignation writes the verse. -- Juvenal
When your art fails, make better art. -- Seth Godin
If all else fails, birdie the last. -- Adam Derek Scott
Hate will keep you alive where love fails -- Mark Lawrence
Ridicule often cuts the knot, where severity fails. -- Horace
A bad cause seldom fails to betray itself. -- James Madison
If all else fails, a few deep breaths. -- Amber Valletta
Love will heal What language fails to know -- Eavan Boland
When all else fails, men turn to reason. -- E. O. Wilson
He who fails to prepare, prepares to fail -- Confucius
Love only fails when we fail to love. -- Tyler Edwards
When courtesy fails, be nasty, brutish, and short. -- Mason Cooley
He who fails to plan, plans to fail. -- Emily Giffin
When all else fails, go for the ego. -- Val McDermid
Everything that fails brings you closer to what works. -- J. K. Rowling
Everybody I know fails the acid test of friendship. -- Bill Watterson
Every one excels in something in which another fails. -- Publilius Syrus
When comedy fails, seriousness begins to leak back in. -- Susan Sontag
Sometimes, even the very best course of action fails. -- Bernard Beckett
If plan A fails, remember there are 25 more letters. -- Chris Guillebeau
When sincerity fails, the offer of money usually works. -- Mark Fuhrman
Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure. -- Seneca the Younger
Ray Garton never fails to go for the throat! -- Richard Laymon
Many a man never fails because he never tries. -- Norman MacEwen
A father is a man who fails every day. -- Michael Chabon
God fails not to sow blessings in the furrows. -- Jeremy Taylor
He who fails to plan is planning to fail. -- Winston Churchill
He alone fails who gives up and lies down. -- Ralph Waldo Trine
God's love never quits or fails or walks away. -- Jennifer Rothschild
No one fails alone and no one succeeds alone. -- Eric Thomas
When the effort fails, is it worth the cost? -- Maria V. Snyder
The human spirit fails, except when the Holy Spirit fills. -- Corrie Ten Boom
When all else fails to organize the people, conditions will. -- Marcus Garvey
Telling stories never fails to produce good in the universe. -- Mary Pipher
If all else fails, you can always be a pro. -- Adam McKay
My faith is the only thing that never fails me. -- Hayley Williams
If all else fails, there's always print or web zines. -- Rudy Rucker
When all else fails, dress beautifully and throw your food. -- Gail Carriger
Organized Christianity that fails to make a disturbance is dead. -- G. Campbell Morgan
The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails. -- William Shakespeare
For most of us, design is invisible. Until it fails -- Bruce Mau
Either one fails in one's art or in one's life. -- Anais Nin
A person who refuses to risk change fails to grow. -- John C. Maxwell
The one who fails to prepare is preparing to fail. -- Benjamin Franklin
Every Messiah fails, the moment he tries to redeem himself. -- Michael Chabon
A vote is "wasted" when someone fails to vote their conscience. -- Jesse Ventura
If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick. -- William James
Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn. -- George Bernard Shaw
All art is failure. How one fails is a different matter. -- Luc Tuymans
If the student fails to learn, the teacher fails to teach. -- Sidney Sugarman
Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are. -- William Barclay

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