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I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.


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MICHAEL JORDAN I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.
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JOSH PECK Every day is a perfect day to love, I rather you have love-hate relations than hate to love.
SEAN CROSBY I'd rather stay out of the limelight until I've done something I feel proud of.
RACHEL STEVENS I'd rather be nauseous than tired, I think.
SAM SIMON I'd rather be lucky than good.
LEFTY GOMEZ I'd rather be a lady of the evening than a feminist.
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ELENA DELLE DONNE I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God's will.
JOAN OF ARC I'd rather live on my own than live with a face that looks at me with the wrong eyes.
JANE BIRKIN I had rather attempt something great and fail, than to attempt nothing at all and succeed
ROBERT H. SCHULLER I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.
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JACKIE EVANCHO You have to be careful not to make music something you don't want to do. Which happens. I've...
SHAWN MENDES I'd much rather have sat there and just been a fly on the wall, instead of having to smile at pe...
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ERIC SCHLOSSER I'd rather be a creature of the night than an old dude.
GERARD WAY The way I look at it, I'd rather make my own mistakes than have people make them for me.
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K. FLAY Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.
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IRIS APFEL I'd rather have a broken arm than a broken heart.
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ROBERT BURNS I pick my favorite quotation and store them in my mind as ready armor, offensive or defensive, amid ...
ROBERT BURNS There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
ROBERT BURNS Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised th...
ROBERT BURNS Ae fond kiss, and then we sever!
A farewell, and then forever!
Deep in heart-wrung tears I'll ...
ROBERT BURNS The great Creator to revere
Must sure become the creature;
But still the preaching cant forbea...
ROBERT BURNS His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.
ROBERT BURNS Gars auld claes look amaist as weel's the new.
ROBERT BURNS The daisy's for simplicity and unaffected air.
ROBERT BURNS Even thou who mournst the daisy's fate, That fate is thine--no distant date; Stern Ruin's plou...
ROBERT BURNS Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn!
ROBERT BURNS It is cruelty to be humane to rebels, and humanity is cruelty. [Fr., Contre les rebelles c'est cru...
ROBERT BURNS Ilk cowslip cup shall kep a tear.
ROBERT BURNS And wild-scatter'd cowslips bedeck the green dale.
ROBERT BURNS Contented wi' little, and cantie wi' mair.
ROBERT BURNS I'll be merry and free, I'll be sad for nae-body; If nae-body cares for me, I'll care fo...
ROBERT BURNS To liken them to your auld-warld squad, I must needs say comparisons are odd.
ROBERT BURNS Without discipline the Army would just be a bunch of guys wearing the same color clothing.
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