Failed Quotes · Page 17

The essential meaning of perestroika for Gorbachev and his supporters was creating and acting on alternatives to failed and dangerous policies at…

— Stephen Cohen

It doesn't matter how many times you have failed… What matters is the successful attempt.

— Maxwell Maltz

Giving up doesn't always mean you failed, sometimes it means you needed to move forward to something else and grow stronger.

— Anonymous

Basically, I thought I had nothing to lose so I'd try my luck as a stand-up comedian. So even if it all…

— Alan Carr

I decided to put my money where my mouth was and make films that I believe in. So even if I failed,…

— Pooja Bhatt

“An entrepreneur is a man who knows he can fail, but he does not accept to fail before he actually fails, and…

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

I went to an audition for a Harry Belafonte Roaring Twenties special for choreographer Donald McKayle, but I failed.

— Judith Jamison

I became a cartoonist because I'd sort of failed at everything else, really. I mean, it was by default.

— Michael Leunig

People are much more complicated in real life, but my characters are as subtle and nuanced as I can make them. But…

— Ken Follett

We spend a lot of time training and retraining. It's heartbreaking because our education system has failed all of us. And again…

— Douglas R. Oberhelman

Texans deserve better than failed leaders who dole out favors to friends and cronies behind closed doors. It's time for a governor…

— Wendy Davis

Throughout my teenage years, I read 'A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens every December. It was a story that never failed to…

— John Boyne

I will say - and not to sound arrogant - people would have been upset if I failed my cash-in. Yeah, it…

— Big E

I guess my biggest failure was not getting reelected. [The loss taught me] not to ever let American hostages be held for…

— Jimmy Carter

With respect to sticking accelerator pedals, we failed to connect the dots between problems in Europe and problems in the United States…

— Akio Toyoda

As long as humans have existed, we have always desired to live longer. Every society, every religion, every culture. Of course, they…

— S. Jay Olshansky

“You see, there is no such thing as a failed entrepreneur. You are a failed entrepreneur only when you quit. Until then,…

— Anonymous

I didn't want to be known as the reality-show star trying to be an actress, so I kept a lot of the…

— Jamie Chung

The deficit only became a big problem in the Reagan-Bush years. For 12 years, Republican presidents talked about balancing the budget, but…

— Dick Gephardt

If you can't come clean and tell investors how and why you failed, that raises a red flag. They need to see…

— Daymond John

You have to convince your players that the only reason a play failed was that they didn't execute properly.

— Bill McCartney

I strongly believe that whenever there's failure or you feel like you've failed, it's only just the beginning, and you can only…

— Laura Ramsey

I think if the average person that uses AOL can't physically see the changes in the company, we've failed.

— Tim Armstrong

All your heroes have failed you. Yet you try and prevail. Face your torment and dismantle your doubt.

— Hatebreed

Suffering is a corrective to point out a lesson which by other means we have failed to grasp, and never can it…

— Edward Bach

As writers, we all have an agenda, but if you recognize that agenda in a book, then you've failed.

— Janet Evanovich

The dissolution of the Oslo Accords would serve as the official act validating what we already know - that this failed framework…

— Danny Danon

To be alive was to be disappointed. You tried and failed and kept on trying, never knowing whether you'd ever get what…

— Joan D. Vinge

“Or maybe everyone feels this way-like they've failed or been failed. Families: letting each other down since the beginning of time.”

— Alexis Bass

“Of course, I failed in several of the areas I invaded, but it is true that one learns more from a failure…

— Truman Capote

The reason this resolution was delayed had nothing to do with anything Karl did or failed to do.

— Robert Luskin

My life has been a series of successes and failures. As much as I have succeeded, I have also failed.

— Nancy Mace

Actually,I am a failed anorexic. I have anorexic thinking, but I can't seem to muster the behavoir

— Carrie Fisher

In my head, if I don't get a shot at Chelsea, personally, I think I will have failed.

— Patrick Bamford

The fact that you tried something and failed does not make you a failure; the only time you become a failure is…

— Anonymous

“If someone is better than you at something, then it’s likely because she has failed at it more than you have.”

— Mark Manson

Egypt under Hosni Mubarak had deteriorated to the status of a failed state. We must wipe the slate clean and start again.

— Mohamed ElBaradei

I personally feel I will have failed if I do not make progress toward making us the most inclusive and diverse workforce…

— Julie Sweet

“Complicated. And yet—simple. They were like two pieces of a failed star, drawn together by a shared history and a memory of…

— Cinda Williams Chima

There's at least one goal of your life that you just imagine then you feel you'll have already failed

— Tivea