The only way you would have failed," she said, "is if you…

I've always played it my way. I failed media training, for example.

— Charli XCX

“I have not failed,” said Thomas Edison. “I’ve just found ten thousand ways that won’t work.”

— Margaret Moore

I feel like I failed," I said. "Don't beat yourself up," Jim said. "She might not have turned out like you planned, but that…

— Anonymous

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

— Abraham Lincoln

“What was his name?” She pushed her lips together, shoving away the memory of how he’d looked the last time she’d seen him, broken…

— Sarah J. Maas

“As much as she wished she had brought a gun with her, she knew it wouldn't have helped as she could hardly have just…

— Jeremy Duns

“I've failed you," he said. "You just stopped the boy." "That's not what I meant." "I know what you meant, Oliver. You count too…

— Rachel Caine

Paradox: how do we know what we have failed to see because we have no language to express it, thus we cannot know that…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“Humility is what you strive for when you've failed at everything else.”

— Stephan Pastis

When the enemy is driven back, we have failed, and when he is cut off, encircled and dispersed, we have succeeded.

— Alexander Suvorov

I wanted to be a huge star and I have failed.

— John Otway

The very first company I started failed with a great bang. The second one failed a little bit less, but still failed. The third…

— Max Levchin

I recognize I am essentially a failed human being in the sense that I can't possibly live up to the expectations of an Almighty.

— George W. Bush

I failed, I think, seven [or] eight times before I finally got my first [championship]. It was just, you know, just about me growing…

— Shaquille O'Neal

Clarissa," he said, "here with the vampire, I see. When things have settled a bit, we really must discuss you choice in pets..

— Cassandra Clare