“If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.”
Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973) American writer
“Armenag Saroyan was the failed poet, the failed Presbyterian preacher, the failed American, the failed theological student.”
Of his father
Sons Come and Go, Mothers Hang in Forever (1976)
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“Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style.”
Tom Robbins Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1976)
Context: So you think that you're a failure, do you? Well, you probably are. What's wrong with that? In the first place, if you've any sense at all you must have learned by now that we pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success.
“We may fail, do fail continually, but He never fails.”
James Hudson Taylor (1832–1905) Missionary in China
(A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Five: Refiner’s Fire. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1985, 175).
“Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.”
John Wooden (1910–2010) American basketball coach
Wooden only repeated a common aphorism (e.g. Interview on Charlie Rose, reported by Bill Walton), which was already in circulation as early as the 1920s, when he was a youth. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbs=bks%3A1%2Ccdr%3A1%2Ccd_min%3AJan+1_2+1900%2Ccd_max%3ADec+31_2+1930&q=%22fail+to+prepare%22+%22prepare+to+fail%22 <br class="br">Misattributed
“Failing to plan is planning to fail”
Alan Lakein (1973) American writer
“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
Samuel Beckett book Worstward Ho
Worstward Ho (1983)
Variant: Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
Context: All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
“Try and fail, but don't fail to try.”
John Quincy Adams (1767–1848) American politician, 6th president of the United States (in office from 1825 to 1829)
“If you fail to plan, then you plan to fail.”
Harvey Mackay (1932) American businessman and journalist
“If we fail to prepare, we prepare to fail.”
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …
Fail to prepare; prepare to fail. <br class="br">By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. <br class="br">Attributed to Franklin in Julita Agustin-Israel, Lakas ng Loob, 1996, p. 53 https://books.google.com/books?id=2Z59AAAAMAAJ&q=prepare; there is no evidence that he coined any forms of this quote. <br class="br">Misattributed