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“We have less than 12 years from now to take immediate action on the climate crisis. If we fail to do so by 2050, we are heading to a path of no return – our species are in danger, food production will decline and it can result in famine. Climate change is like a time-bomb”
Adenike Oladosu (born 1994) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You’ve got to tune out your self-doubts and understand that it’s okay to fail”
Kara Swisher (born 1962) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They fail to see that the attacks against some of us will later be extended to them and their unions. They have forgotten the story of Germany, the story of Spain, the story of France. They have forgotten that united we stand — that all the bona fide union in other civilized countries were crushed, and the labor leaders of the right and left shook hands in concentration camps!”
Luisa Moreno (1907–1992) said by 1992 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Let us not fail to take advantage of the present opportunity, and let us become familiar with the thought that we may yet be destined to bury this old society, whose history was written with the blood and tears of the wretched poor, to build over its ruins a world of freedom on the unshakable foundations of communal labor and mutual solidarity.”
Milly Witkop (1877–1955) said by 1955 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Should there be a case where people are interested in paying for homes earlier, an account will be opened and the money will be used as collateral to indicate to banks that there is demand but that money cannot be withdrawn. Should the project fail, those who failed would be refunded to those who paid. This does not change how banks do their business of studying projects before investing in them.”
Cécile Murumunawabo (born 1968) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Cécile Murumunawabo said, The New Times (02 October 2017)
“Without innovation and entrepreneurship, various components of our food system would fail short to deliver to the growing demand of population growth and urbanization.”
Gérardine Mukeshimana (born 1970) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Today, no one can fail to see the role of Madame Jeannette Kagame in Rwanda's development.”
Mignone Alice Kabera first seen 2026 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Welcoming Mrs. Jeannette Kagame to 'All Women Together' was like a child seeing his mother come - Apostle Mignonne KaberaKigaliToday(August 7, 2026)
“It will no longer be the case that residents receive monophase electricity. It is not good that a citizen wants to have an activity and then fail because lack of electricity.”
Patricie Uwase (born 1989) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Providing electricity to the citizens The source post (9 July 2022)
“In all our efforts in the widest fields we must aim at the elevation of the home, that bulwark of society, remembering the standard established by our fore-fathers. We must train the children to love the higher things of life — the treasures that cannot be bought and sold — thus securing for them the consolations of thought-life that never fail.”
Hannah G. Solomon (1858–1942) said by 1942 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“At the end of the day, you may as well try and fail than not try at all.”
Temi Otedola (born 1996) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you are a black person in entertainment or a black person in sport, and you ‘fail’, you are reminded that you cannot do both.”
Lashana Lynch (born 1987) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Too often, it is preceded by repeated warning signs that fail to receive a strong and early international response.”
Esther Mujawayo (born 1958) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Calling for urgent attention to prevent the ultimate crime. ohchr. (April 2014)
“You will fail miserably! If you’ve not been reading, you can’t write well.”
Eugenia Abu (born 1962) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“How long does it take to ask for permission to conduct an emergency tender and how can you fail to give a report to the procurement authority even if the tender was an emergent one?”
Christine Bakundufite (born 1970) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: https://www.ktpress.rw/2020/10/karongi-district-borrowing-projects-from-neighboring-districts-pac/ ( KT Press, October 3, 2020 )
“Most times the best way to handle annoying comments on social media is simply to ignore them but if not, then give the person a dose of his/her medicine because they fail to realise we are equally humans.”
Luchy Donalds (born 1991) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If, as an administrator, you don't have the passion to do the right thing at the right time, then we will continue to fail.”
Blessing Okagbare (born 1988) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Do not focus entirely on sport, because there will be a day when your body will fail you. When that day comes, and you do not have the educational background to face the real life after sport, something will fall off you.”
Mary Onyali-Omagbemi (born 1968) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I shall leave the Editor unrestricted control unless he should—which is quite incredible—fail to warn the British people of the coming German peril. I insist upon that duty being discharged. Apart from Germany the Editor is free to take any line of policy which commends itself to him.”
Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe (1865–1922) first seen 1908 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Remarks after his purchase of The Times (1908), quoted in Frederick Harcourt Kitchin, The London 'Times' Under the Managership of Moberly Bell: An Unofficial Narrative (1925), p. 238
“Anyone who declares himself/herself to be a feminist cannot fail to recognize the connection between women's rights and the right to land.”
Dzodzi Tsikata (born 1962) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There are no policies that consider women as farmers. Then women are left aside and a cycle of disadvantages is perpetuated. It is not an economic question, but a matter of citizenship and rights. Anyone who declares themselves feminist cannot fail to recognize the connection between the rights of women and the right to the land.”
Dzodzi Tsikata (born 1962) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you don’t train and retrain teachers, education will continue to be comatose; students will continue to fail woefully and development may not be possible.”
Oluwayemisi Oluremi Obilade (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you fail to get the job you are qualified to do, take up any job available. I have always met masters’ graduates in developed countries working in hotels as waiters and some with PhDs but working as drivers. The trend in Uganda is totally different and students need to change their mindset,”
Gordon Wavamunno (born 1943) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Dr.Gordon Wavamunno's tips for university students , article written by Philimon Badagawa, on 24 July 2014,Campus Times.
“Midway in life, as at its outset, you do not trust your body not to fail or disappoint you.”
Shulamith Hareven (1930–2003) said by 2003 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“His death affected my academic performance that semester. I pulled myself together after his burial, and told myself – I will not fail.”
Afua Adwo Jectey Hesse (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When oppressed people fail to recognize that we are targeted on a systematic level, and instead only understand our lives and the choices we make through a personal lens, finding belonging and demanding better for our communities becomes impossible.”
Devon Price (born 1988) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I’d rather fail in originality than become a clone of another! I didn’t get here as a carbon copy of anyone yet I made a name as one of the most revered in the space!”
MzGee first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Retrieved 2023-10-06
“In this man is the uncompromising will to win, and the character and integrity to lead his country to victory on the battlefields of the world. The respect of the world is his. Men and nations know that when others may fail they can always turn to him for leadership and victory.”
Frazier Hunt (1885–1967) said by 1967 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I would never show one side of me because that’s setting myself up to fail”
Florence Pugh (born 1996) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If I want something, I go after it no matter how many times I fail and knock myself against the wall.”
Jenni Hermoso (born 1990) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I know that on my day I can be unstoppable. But it’s important to do that every single week without fail.”
Lauren Hemp (born 2000) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“That is why I am urging these traditional leaders to stop being political, the must stop because they will fail to take charge of their chiefdoms. It is important for chiefs or any other traditional leader to basically embrace all players. The message here is clear, Lets respect the choice of the people,” .”
Sarah Sayifwanda (1963–2020) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sayifwanda retains her Zambezi seat, Year: 07 Feb 2013, Daily Nation
“We can't end poverty if we fail to save the lives of our world's mothers.”
Liya Kebede (born 1978) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You will make mistakes in life. You will even fail. It happens to all of us, no matter how qualified or capable we are — take it from me.”
Onyeche Tifase wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If the goods or services offered by a business are not wanted, the business will fail unless it adapts to what the market is demanding. They will do well and produce more if they make a good quality product at an attractive price. So the market is a discovery process in which the capitalists will find the right path as they move forward.”
Javier Milei (born 1970) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The classics and class have always been uncomfortably linked. In this country's education system, knowledge of the classics was traditionally the gatekeeper of privilege. If you acquired the classics (even as a humble stonemason's son, like Thomas Hardy) you gained a passport to the establishment. Fail (like Hardy's character Jude) and the corridors of power remained out of reach.”
Charlotte Higgins (born 1972) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: By academia or tweet, the classics for all", The Guardian (29 April 2009)
“Find what you are good at, practice every day, fail at it many times until you are good at it.”
“Of course you also fail a lot more, because you pursue crazy ideas. But in the process of failing, you find new directions that enhance your research.”
Oluwatoyin Asojo (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You can kill our human bodies but not our souls made of iron. O Britishers! Whatever measures you adopt to stop us will fail. We shall continue to proceed. None can stop us from hoisting our national flag at the police post.”
Kanaklata Barua (1924–1942) said by 1942 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What we really need is a massive effort from people of goodwill across the United States to come together and make sure that we have a functioning, effective and strong democracy. If we fail to do it, the consequences are quite dire.”
Diana Aviv wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You need to know that if you do not treat it like a job, then you will set yourself up to fail.”
Laila St. Matthew-Daniel (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Being mutally open to one another allows us to understand and appreciate one another, because authentic love, inspired by God, cannot fail to generate in the hearts of all of us the desire for mutual help, despite the differences that can characterize us.”
Giovanni d'Aniello (born 1955) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Moscow, Islamic publisher releases encyclical 'Fratelli tutti (3 March 2021) Asia News
“Harvard students need to understand it’s OK to fail. That’s really a sign that you’re challenging yourself and growing.”
Sarah Hurwitz (born 1981) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sarah Hurwitz, former White House wordsmith, says the best remarks echo the person delivering them Harvard Law School (March 17, 2017)
“The hardest thing is always getting to the starting line and having the courage to do it. Most adventures fail because they are never done.”
Jonas Deichmann (born 1987) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Source: Interview with Wilder Magazine, (March 11, 2021).
“Truth will eventually triumph one day, the light of freedom will doubtlessly and without fail illuminate the whole family and bestow its blessings upon all.”
Uchiyama Gudō (1874–1911) said by 1911 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am often confused by people who fail to understand the importance of the city centre. The reason you build a city centre is for the rest of the city, and you want the rest of the city to reflect the state or the province”
Vusi Thembekwayo (born 1985) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Vusi Thembekwayo Slams Durban CBD Decay: ‘No Reason for This Mess’ as eThekwini Defends Major Revamp Efforts,10 October 2025
“The clique of the 14th Dalai Lama has never ceased its attempts to split China. Such activities run counter to the constitution, state system and the interests of all people in Tibet, and are doomed to fail.”
Losang Jamcan (born 1957) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: China Focus: Tibet renews anti-separatism pledge on Serfs' Emancipation Day" (29 March 2016)
“We cannot mediate without preliminary formation, otherwise it is guaranteed to fail. Mediators need to stay united if they wish to do their job properly.”
Odon Marie Arsène Razanakolona (born 1946) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: - H. Exc. Mons. Odon Marie Arsène RAZANAKOLONA, Archbishop of Tananarive (MADAGASCAR) (13 October 2009) Press Office of the Holy See
“Our community still mourns those brutally murdered during the Hamas terrorist attack in Israel on October 7. Words fail in the face of such depravity, the deadliest single day for the Jewish community since the horrors of the Holocaust.”
Claudine Gay (born 1970) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Liberia is owned by Jesus no matter what they say or who says what, Jesus owns Liberia. Despite what we have gone through, we must forgive if we want to achieve durable peace. Though it is difficult to forgive, but we must do so in the interest of peace and our Nation. This nation belongs to God. Any government who does not know Jesus is bound to fail.”
Wesley Momo Johnson (1944–2021) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Liberian Christians gather for national rededication to Jesus (19 April 2004) Christian Today
“The impact of NRC in Assam was more on non-Muslims than on Muslims. The population law will also have the same fate. I fail to understand why the Yogi Adityanath government, which has barely seven months left in the office, is talking of a population control law?”
Iqbal Mehmood (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source