Failed Quotes

• I have tried 99 times and have failed, but on the 100th time came success.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Time
  • Success
  • Tried

• Those who have failed to work toward the truth have missed the purpose of living.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Truth
  • Purpose
  • Failed

• I knew that if I failed I wouldn't regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.

  

  Jeff Bezos
  • Regret
  • Failed

• Where Napoleon failed, I shall succeed, I shall land on the shores of Britain.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Napoleon
  • Britain
  • Shores

• Ninety nine failed solutions equals a gain of 99 pieces of information.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Information
  • Solutions
  • Equals

• I don't think many people want to say to themselves that they've quit. At the same time, we've all failed in our lives, we've all failed at different things in different ways and I think there's a lot to be said about facing that failure squarely.

  

  Eric Greitens
  • Failed
  • Facing
  • Different Ways

• Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Most
  • Failed
  • Some

• People say, 'I failed out of college! My life is over!' Well, it's not over. It depends on what you do with it.

  

  Rainer Weiss
  • People
  • College
  • Depends

• You tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is 'never try'.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Lesson
  • Tried
  • Failed

• It was not that socialism failed , it was the lack of socialism.

  

  Wojciech Jaruzelski
  • Socialism
  • Failed

• My paternal grandfather was a failed novelist. He stacked boxes of rejected manuscripts in a closet.

  

  Laird Barron
  • Grandfather
  • Boxes
  • Failed

• A lot of artists start out as failed poets, then move on to being failed short-story writers before they finally break through to the big time and become failed novelists.

  

  Gary Reilly
  • Artists
  • Failed
  • Novelists

• A basic truth that the history of the creation of the transistor reveals is that the foundations of transistor electronics were created by making errors and following hunches that failed to give what was expected.

  

  William Bradford Shockley Jr.
  • History
  • Created
  • Errors

• She failed her drivers test. She couldn't get used to the front seat. It took her four lessons to learn to sit up.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Up
  • She
  • Lessons

• Sometimes I wish I could go back in time, sit down with myself and explain that things were going to be okay, that everybody loses ground sometimes and it doesn’t mean anything. It’s the way life works. This is hard to understand in the moment. You get to thinking about the girl who rejected you, the job you got fired from, the test you failed, and you lose sight of the big picture — the fact that life has a beautiful way of remaking itself every few weeks.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Life
  • Time
  • Thinking

• Lasting harmony with a woman was an undertaking in which I twice failed rather disgracefully.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Woman
  • Harmony
  • Lasting

• Everything has added up to a load that I'm getting tired of carrying. It's gotten so complicated. It's the three failed marriages, and having kids that grew up without me, and it's the personal criticism, of being Mr. Nice Guy, or of divorcing my wife by fax, all that stuff, the journalism, some of which I find insulting.

  

  Phil Collins Genesis
  • Failed
  • Marriages
  • Personal Criticism

• I never failed in mathematics. Before I was fifteen I had mastered differential and integral calculus.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Mathematics
  • Calculus
  • Mastered

• I find quite as much material for a lecture in those points wherein I have failed, as in those wherein I have been moderately successful.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Successful
  • Failed
  • Lecture

• I failed, I failed, and that is about all that can be said about it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • About
  • Failed
  • Can Be

• Historical theology has too often failed to interpret repentance as a positive creative force. ... Essentially, if Christianity is to succeed in the next millennium, it must cease to be a negative religion and must become positive.

  

  Robert H. Schuller
  • Force
  • Theology
  • Repentance

• I absolutely cannot see how one can later make up for having failed to go to a good school at the proper time. For this is what distinguishes the hard school as a good school from all others: that much is demanded; and sternly demanded; that the good, even the exceptional, is demanded as the norm; that praise is rare, that indulgence is nonexistent; that blame is apportioned sharply, objectively, without regard for talent or antecedents. What does one learn in a hard school? Obeying and commanding.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • School
  • Talent
  • Commanding

• My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Teach
  • Failed
  • Schooling

• I was horribly depressed, and I felt like I had failed as a band leader, a professional, as a person.

  

  Ben Moody Evanescence
  • Professional
  • Depressed
  • Band Leader

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