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“Most people do not ever pick up the phone. They never ask, and that is what separates the people that do things from the people that just dream about them. You have to act, and you have to be willing to fail. You have to be willing to crash and burn, because if you are afraid of failing, you will not get very far.”

People Ifs Dream Asks Failing Willing Picks Phones Crash

Author:Steve Jobs

“People often ask themselves the right questions. Where they fail is in answering the questions they ask themselves, and even there they do not fail by much...But it takes time, it takes humility and a serious reason for searching.”

People Reason Asks Failing Humility Serious Take Time It Takes Time Right Questions

Author:William Maxwell

“When private industry makes a mistake, it gets corrected and goes away. As governments make mistakes, it gets bigger, bigger and bigger and they make more, more and more because as they run out of money, they just ask for more and so they get rewarded for making mistakes. In the meantime that is exactly what we are doing by subsidizing companies which are failing, we have a reverse Darwinism, we've got survival of the unfittest, the companies and people that have made terrible mistakes are being rewarded and other people are being punished and being taxed.”

People Made Government Running Asks Mistake Company Failing Industry Terrible Survival Bigger Making Mistakes Reverse Darwinism

Author:Peter Schiff

“If men do their best endeavours to free themselves from all errors, and yet fail of it through human frailty, so well I am persuaded of the goodness of God, that if in me alone should meet a confluence of all such errors of all the Protestants in the world that were thus qualified, I should not be so much afraid of them all, as I should be to ask pardon for them.”

Source: The works of William Chillingworth, 1: in three volumes

“God is ready to give more quickly, and to give more than you ask; yea, he offers his treasures if we only take them. It is truly a great shame and a severe chastisement for us Christians that God should still upbraid us for our slothfulness in prayer, and that we fail to let such a rich and excellent promise incite us to pray.”

Source: Through the Year with Martin Luther: A Selection of Sermons Celebrating the Feasts and Seasons of the Christian Year

“By some fluke, my folks forgot to ask me the question most crucial to ensuring a lifetime of self-doubt: 'What if you fail?”

Ifs Self Asks Doubt Failing Confidence Lifetime Folks Ask Me What If Crucial Self-doubt Flukes

Book:Lizz Free or Die: Essays

Source: Lizz Free or Die: Essays

“I ask to become a faery because I love a faery queen, and because she deserves to have someone who loves her for who she is, not what she is. She needs me. There are people-good people-I love and I'm a liability to them because I'm a mortal. I'm fragile. I'm fine. I am in this world. People I care about, the woman I love, friends in all three of the courts This is where I belong. I just need you to give me what it takes to stay with them and be strong enough not to fail them.”

People World Needs Giving Enough Care Three Asks Strong Failing This World Fine Deserve Give Me Court Mortals Queens Good People Fragile I Care Strong Enough Need You Liability

Author:Melissa M

“When you are solving a difficult problem re-ask the problem so that your solution helps you learn faster. Find a faster way to fail, recover, and try again. If the problem you are trying to solve involves creating a magnum opus, you are solving the wrong problem.”

Ifs Way Trying Helping Problem Asks Difficult Failing Creating Solutions Solve Faster Try Again Difficult Problems

Author:Aza Raskin

“Leaving love behind is never easy, for it also asks that we leave behind the part of ourselves that did the loving. And yet for all but the very fortunate and the very foolish, this difficult transition is an inevitable part of the human experience, of the ceaseless learning journey that is life - because, after all, anything worth pursuing is worth failing at, and fail we do as we pursue.”

Humans Asks Easy Difficult Love Is Behinds Failing Journey Leaving Foolish Pursue Inevitable Fortunate Transition Human Experience

Author:Maria Popova

“If you ask what's been my secret of success, most might say it's my God-given athletic ability to throw a football. While talent is important, it's not necessarily the most important thing. Thousands of talented people fail every day. My strength has been my will to win-that competitive fire inside.”

People Ifs Has Beens Important Might Asks Winning Given Ability Secret Fire Failing Talent Football Important Things Nfl Athletic Secret To Success Will To Win Fire Inside Athletic Ability

Book:Comeback Kid

Source: Comeback Kid

“The thing about being a writer is that you never have to ask, 'Am I doing something that's worthwhile?' Because even if you fail at it, you know that it's worth doing.”

Ifs Knows Asks Failing Worthwhile

Author:Richard Ford

“I've failed a million times on stage. I've listened to notes that I knew weren't right. I've pitched ideas and let other people change them, knowing that it was the wrong choice. The question you have to ask yourself is: How do you want to fail? Do you want to fail in a way that feels like it respects your tastes and value system?”

People Way Want Feels Ideas Values Choices Asks Millions Knowing Failing Stage Taste Notes Wrong Choices Value Systems

Author:Amy Poehler