Failed Quotes
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I was horribly depressed, and I felt like I had failed as a band leader, a professional, as a person.
Ben Moody Evanescence -
What if you have failed in the past? So, at one time did every man we recognize as a towering success. They called it "temporary defeat.
Napoleon Hill
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That laid out where we felt they failed to abide by statutory deadlines.
Eliot Spitzer -
The possible has been tried and failed. Now it's time to try the impossible.
Sun Ra -
I failed my way to success.
Thomas A. Edison -
Those who failed to oppose me, who readily agreed with me, accepted all my views, and yielded easily to my opinions, were those who did me the most injury, and were my worst enemies, because, by surrendering to me so easily, they encouraged me to go too far... I was then too powerful for any man, except myself, to injure me.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
I thought being faithful was about becoming someone other than who I was...it wasn't until I failed that I began to wonder if my human wholeness might be more useful to God than my exhausting goodness.
Barbara Brown Taylor -
When I have tried and failed, I shall have failed.
Sophocles
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I have disappointed and failed to live up to the standard I expected of myself.
Eliot Spitzer -
We carry in our worlds that flourish, our worlds that have failed.
Christopher Okigbo -
I failed at the biggest things there are in life. I failed in my health, I failed in my marriage, I failed in everything, and I've picked myself up and gone on.
Sharon Stone -
If I'm not moved by what happens at the end of this play, then I've completely failed, and so has the play, and so has our production. And if that's the case then there really isn't any reason to want to do it.
Judd Hirsch -
I never failed. It just didn't work 10,000 times.
Thomas A. Edison -
I daily examine myself on three points: In planning for others, have I failed in conscientiousness? In intercourse with friends, have I been insincere? And have I failed to practice what I have been taught?
Confucius
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Europe's experiment with multiculturalism, or the side-by-side existence of different cultures, has failed throughout the continent. Integration requires a minimum basis of shared values, that is, a culture of mutual tolerance and respect - in other words, what constitutes the heart of European culture.
Walter Kasper -
I never once failed at making a light bulb. I just found out 99 ways not to make one.
Thomas A. Edison -
I never failed once. It just happened to be a 2000-step process.
Thomas A. Edison -
I cannot face the idea of life without work. What would one do when ideas failed or words refused to come? It is impossible not to shudder at the thought.
Sigmund Freud -
It's better to have tried and failed than to live life wondering what would've happened if I had tried.
Alfred Lord Tennyson -
You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.
Michael Johnson
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None of us need one more person bashing or pointing out where we have failed or fallen short. Most of us are already well aware of the areas in which we are weak. What each of us does need is family, friends, employers, and brothers and sisters who support us, who have the patience to teach us, who believe in us, and who believe we’re trying to do the best we can, in spite of our weaknesses. What ever happened to giving each other the benefit of the doubt? What ever happened to hoping that another person would succeed or achieve? What ever happened to rooting for each other?
Marvin J. Ashton -
A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.
Georges Clemenceau -
If we achieve our sustainability targets and no one else follows, we will have failed.
Paul Polman -
Genius? Nothing! Sticking to it is the genius! ... I've failed my way to success.
Thomas A. Edison