Failed Quotes
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I have tried 99 times and have failed, but on the 100th time came success.
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Where Napoleon failed, I shall succeed, I shall land on the shores of Britain.
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Those who have failed to work toward the truth have missed the purpose of living.
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Ninety nine failed solutions equals a gain of 99 pieces of information.
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Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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You tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is 'never try'.
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I knew that if I failed I wouldn't regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.
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My paternal grandfather was a failed novelist. He stacked boxes of rejected manuscripts in a closet.
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She failed her drivers test. She couldn't get used to the front seat. It took her four lessons to learn to sit up.
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I never failed in mathematics. Before I was fifteen I had mastered differential and integral calculus.
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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.
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I failed, I failed, and that is about all that can be said about it.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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People say, 'I failed out of college! My life is over!' Well, it's not over. It depends on what you do with it.
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This was a time when I intentionally failed to drop bread crumbs for my return journey; instead, I ate them.
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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.
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Lasting harmony with a woman was an undertaking in which I twice failed rather disgracefully.
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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.
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That laid out where we felt they failed to abide by statutory deadlines.
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I was horribly depressed, and I felt like I had failed as a band leader, a professional, as a person.
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I failed my way to success.
