„Dare to fail. If you never fail, you're never taken risks and that's no way to take on this life.“

„Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice. Goodness is the only investment that never fails.“

—  Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist 1817 - 1862

„If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.“

—  Pearl S. Buck American writer 1892 - 1973

„How do you get up in the morning?
Another wasted life it's so boring
The system never failed you
You failed yourself and all of your friends
Now your heart is failing too
A total system failure they pronounce you“

—  Juliana Hatfield American guitarist/singer-songwriter and author 1967

"Total System Failure"
Juliana's Pony: Total System Failure (2000)

„Above all, never think you're not good enough. Never think that. In life people will take you at your own reckoning.“

—  Isaac Asimov American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction and popular … 1920 - 1992

„[Alex] "I never knew how many ways there were to fail until I moved here."“

—  Michael Nava American writer 1954

Quelle: The Burning Plain (1997), p.41 (Chapter 4) [page numbers as per the Alyson Publications Paperback Edition, April 2004]

„Have confidence in the Providence that so far has never failed us. The way is not yet clear. Grope along slowly.“

—  Théodore Guérin Catholic saint and nun from France 1798 - 1856

Letter to the Sisters at Jasper 1842-03-20.
Kontext: You may have to wait longer than you would like, you may have to bear privations; but, bear and forebear. Have confidence in the Providence that so far has never failed us. The way is not yet clear. Grope along slowly. Do not press matters; be patient, be trustful.

„I never fail to toss a stone on the pile, Hannes. In my own way it is a small offering to those lonesome gods.“

—  Louis L'Amour Novelist, short story writer 1908 - 1988

Quelle: The Lonesome Gods (1983), Ch. 8
Kontext: Sometimes, when crossing a pass in the mountains, one will see a pile of loose stones, even several piles. Foolish people have dug into them, thinking treasure is buried there. It is a stupid idea, to think a treasure would be marked so obviously.
It is an old custom of these people to pick up a stone and toss it on the pile.  Perhaps it is a symbolical lightening of the load they carry, perhaps a small offering to the gods of the trails. I never fail to toss a stone on the pile, Hannes. In my own way it is a small offering to those lonesome gods. 
A man once told me they do the same thing in Tibet, and some of our ancient people may have come from there, or near there. Regardless of that, I like to think those ancient gods are out there waiting, and that they are, because of my offerings, a little less lonely.

„The desire for high status is never stronger than in situations where "ordinary" life fails to answer a median need for dignity and comfort.“

—  Alain de Botton, buch Status Anxiety

Quelle: Status Anxiety

„In business you wind up trying a lot of things, most of which won’t work. The way you become a good business person is to fail, fail, fail and fail.“

—  Bob Parsons United States Marine 1950

Forbes: GoDaddy Billionaire Bob Parsons' 7 Tips for Entrepreneurs https://www.forbes.com/sites/luisakroll/2015/10/18/godaddy-billionaire-bob-parsons-7-tips-for-entrepreneurs/ (18 October 2015)

„if you don’t try at anything, you can’t fail… it takes back bone to lead the life you want“

—  Richard Yates, buch Revolutionary Road

Quelle: Revolutionary Road

„Making art, any art, you are in some way trying to imitate life, and the ways in which that succeeds or fails is fascinating to me…“

—  Naomi Iizuka American dramatist 1965

On art versus life in “Berkeley world premiere for Naomi Iizuka play” https://www.sfgate.com/performance/article/Berkeley-world-premiere-for-Naomi-Iizuka-play-3271229.php in SF Gate (2010 Mar 4)

„I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.“

—  Ransom Riggs, buch Miss Peregrine's Home of Peculiar Children

Quelle: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2011), Chapter 11, Page 351

„All the gifts which fortune bestows she can easily take away; but education, when combined with intelligence, never fails, but abides steadily on to the very end of life.“

—  Vitruvius, buch De architectura

Introduction, Sec. 3
De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book VI

„Never risking anything meant never having or doing or being anything either. Life is risk, it turned out.“

—  Lev Grossman, buch The Magician's Land

Quelle: The Magician's Land

„There comes a time in the life of every human when he or she must decide to risk "his life, his fortune, and his sacred honor" on an outcome dubious. Those who fail the challenge are merely overgrown children, can never be anything else.“

—  Robert A. Heinlein, buch Stranger in a Strange Land

Stranger in a Strange Land (1961; 1991)

„And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way.“

—  John Steinbeck American writer 1902 - 1968

„…I realized that once people are broken in certain ways they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one.“

—  Douglas Coupland, buch Life After God

Quelle: Life After God (1994)

„The only way you would have failed," she said, "is if you had.“

—  Cassandra Clare, buch City of Bones

Quelle: City of Bones

„Life is full of screwups. You're supposed to fail sometimes. It's a required part of the human existance.“

—  Sarah Dessen, buch Along for the Ride

Variante: You're supposed to fail sometimes. It's a required part of the human existence
-Eli
Quelle: Along for the Ride