A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy.
John Churton Collins

A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, if it produce nothing useful to the world, seldom fails of entertainment to itself.
George Berkeley

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
Winston Churchill

Aid can work where there is good governance, and usually fails where governments are unable or unwilling to commit aid to improve the lives of their people.
Lee H. Hamilton

All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.
James Lane Allen

All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!
T. E. Lawrence

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.
James A. Michener

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.
Charles Kettering

Any commander who fails to exceed his authority is not of much use to his subordinates.
Arleigh Burke

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
Wislawa Szymborska

As one gets older, it happens that in the morning one fails to remember the airplane trip to be taken in a few hours or the lecture scheduled for the afternoon.
Rudolf Arnheim

But our system of regulation must keep up with this. If it fails to keep up, it will hold back economic expansion. We need financial market regulation that works at national and European level.
John Bruton

Drilling in ANWR fails to lower energy prices today and sets no long term energy strategy for tomorrow.
Dan Lipinski

Forget all the bars and schmoozing and everybody checking out everybody else. My ideal date would be to park in a dark place, check out the stars, and have a great conversation. When all else fails, you can just make out.
Brooke Burke

Franklin Roosevelt said the test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance to those who have much; it is whether we provide enough to those who have too little. This reconciliation package fails that test as well.
Patrick J. Kennedy

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
Henry David Thoreau

Government loses its claim to legitimacy when it fails to fulfill its obligations.
Martin L. Gross

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
George Santayana

He 's ruthless only because of his ideals. Unfortunately he doesn't succeed. The thing fails and gets out of hand and takes charge of him. Idealism is the only excuse he could have and it's a great excuse.
Terence Fisher

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
Samuel Johnson