A Quote by Theodore Roosevelt

When we undertake the impossible, we often fail to do anything at all.

Theodore Roosevelt

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Theodore Roosevelt
American - President
October 27, 1858 - January 6, 1919

If you attempt certain things at the right time, they are easy to accomplish - in fact, they almost get done by themselves. If you undertake them before the time is right, not only will they fail, but they will often become impossible to accomplish even when the time would have been right.

Francesco Guicciardini

The object isn't to be perfect. The goal isn't to hold back until you've created something beyond reproach. I believe the opposite is true. Our birthright is to fail and to fail often, but to fail in search of something bigger than we can imagine. To do anything else is to waste it all.

Seth Godin

There are some persons who never succeed from being too indolent to undertake anything; and others who regularly fail, because the instant they find success in their power, they grow indifferent, and give over the attempt.

William Hazlitt

My motto is very personal and may not fit anyone else or any other company. It is: Don't do anything that someone else can do. Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.

Edwin Land

Faith does the impossible because it brings God to undertake for us, and nothing is impossible with God.

Edward McKendree Bounds

Maybe we don't put our young people in situations often enough where they're allowed to fail. When you fail you gain experience, and with enough experience, you don't fail as often.

Colin Powell

'Fail hard, fail fast, fail often. It's the key to success.' This one I learned from experience!

Reshma Saujani

There's no checklist of how democracies fail because they fail in different ways. Some of them fail because they break up and civil war breaks out... Often they fail because someone is elected to power who doesn't respect the rules of the democracy.

Anne Applebaum

Look, you didn't fail me. Because you can't fail at the impossible." -Zsadist to Phury

J.R. Ward

Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.

Edwin Land

Fail early, fail often, but always fail forward.

John C. Maxwell

It's impossible to fail completely and it's impossible to succeed perfectly.

Robert H. Schuller

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.' You won't believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better.

Samuel Beckett

Fail fast, fail hard, fail often.

Reshma Saujani

One purpose of CRC cards [a design tool] is to fail early, to fail often, and to fail inexpensively. It is a lot cheaper to tear up a bunch of cards that it would be to reorganize a large amount of source code.