Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Sometimes it works, sometimes it fails, but that's what we face when we're dealing with improvisation.

- Jan Garbarek

No individual has a vested right to a job when that individual fails to perform adequately.

- James E. Rogers

High-level, big-deal publicity has a way of getting old for me, but what never fails to thrill me is when I make personal appearances.

- Joseph Barbera

If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.

- John Kenneth Galbraith

If the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory.

- Jefferson Davis

Sometimes one succeeds, sometimes one fails.

- Harold Bloom

Television is ultimately a business of failure. You try a lot of things, and most of it fails.

- Greg Berlanti

If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.

- Georg C. Lichtenberg

We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely.

- Frank McCourt

If the euro fails, Europe fails.

- Angela Merkel

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

When all else fails there's always delusion.

- Conan O'Brien

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

- Charles Kettering

One fails forward toward success.

- Charles Kettering

I mean it shouldn't hang you up emotionally if your record fails.

- Bruce Johnston

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

- Arleigh Burke

If all else fails, birdie the last.

- Adam Derek Scott

When all else fails, complicate matters.

- Aaron Allston

I feel like you can't get an audience to like your character if she's actually cool, but you can if she's trying to be cool and sometimes fails.

- Anna Kendrick