A Quote by Eleanor Roosevelt

What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?

Eleanor Roosevelt

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Eleanor Roosevelt
American - First lady
October 11, 1884 - November 7, 1962

I remember everyone telling me I had to think positive when I was writing my first book. If I believed I could do it, then I could! If I pictured myself published, then it was going to happen! Which sounded great, except...could I do it? If I didn't think I could, was I doomed to fail? What if I was almost totally sure I would fail? I am here to tell you-what matters is sticking with it.

Holly Black

What would you do if you knew you could not fail?

Robert H. Schuller

No blame can be attached to the army for its failure to accomplish what was projected by me... I alone am to blame, in perhaps expecting too much of its prowess and valor... could I have foreseen that the attack on the last day would fail, I should certainly have tried some other course... but I do not know what better course I could have pursued.

Robert E. Lee

We knew we could fail; we just didn't think we would.

Phil Knight

I knew I was in good hands [with Didier Dubot] and we could accomplish whatever I had in mind.

Julia Restoin Roitfeld

To be taken seriously about doing something creative and probably travel a lot. That was my motivation. I knew I was good, I knew I could write. I also knew you could get laid really easily.

David Bowie

What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?

Robert H. Schuller

I grieved, but a part of me felt a lightening of a burden that I had carried all my life: that I could never be worthy of them, that I would always disappoint or fail them. As an unknown slave in the fields of the baron, I knew the worst was over. I had failed them. At least I could not do so again

Megan Whalen Turner

After my dad died, all I wanted to do was work as hard as I possibly could to accomplish all the things that I knew would have made him proud.

Caris LeVert

I knew that if I worked hard, I could have both - I could have a family, because that was important to me, and I could have a career.

Judy Sheindlin

I knew who I was coming into the NBA, so I knew what I could contribute to a team, and I just had a high level of confidence in myself and what I could do.

Malcolm Brogdon

The question for me was, could TV actually teach? I knew it could, because I knew 3-year-olds who sang beer commercials!

Joan Ganz Cooney

We must not fail, individually, for if we fail, we fail twice - for ourselves and for those who could have been helped, if we had done our duty.

Neal A. Maxwell

Until you came along, I never knew how much I’d been missing. I never knew that a touch could be so meaningful or an expression so eloquent; I never knew that a kiss could literally take my breath awa