Failed Quotes
1604 quotes by 1228 authors
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I have tried 99 times and have failed, but on the 100th time came success.
— Albert Einstein
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As I presided over Massie's execution, I thought about the abuse and neglect he endured as a child in the foster care system. We failed…
— Jeanne Woodford
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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,…
— Robert H. Schuller
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The failed stimulus, along with Obamacare's long list of failures, show what happens when Congress passes laws in a rush.
— John Barrasso
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A patchwork solution of provincial targets is an admission of defeat and a statement that we have failed our children and grandchildren.
— Elizabeth May
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Many of my biggest business endeavors were failures before they became a success. Some failed for as long as six years before they hit. Everyone…
— Russell Simmons
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Research, in nature’s laboratory, never stops. It explores every possibility. It never lacks funding. It is never demoralized by failed experiments. It cannot be lobbied.
— Verlyn Klinkenborg
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Failure is an option. It's what you do with the failure that makes you who you are. Our failures mold us. I have failed at…
— David Goggins
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Most small businesses failed because the owner was under skilled, not under capitalized.
— Robert Kiyosaki
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The intellectual and moral satisfaction that I failed to gain from the utilitarianism of Bentham and Mill, the revolutionary methods of Marx and Lenin, the…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Socialism failed because it couldn't tell the economic truth. Capitalism may fail because it couldn't tell the ecological truth.
— Lester R. Brown
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Barack Obama's failed us. But look, it's understandable. A lot of people fail at their first job.
— Tim Pawlenty
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Answering a letter from a church asking what else they should try after having failed to raise enough money on bake sales, bazaars, suppers, etc.…
— Horace Greeley
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If you believe you have a foolproof system, you've failed to take into consideration the creativity of fools.
— Frank Abagnale
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I don't consider my marriages as failures! It's idiotic to assume that because a marriage ends, it's failed.
— Margaret Mead
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I take great solace that Einstein failed math. I failed math. I also failed English and home economics. Einstein was an underachiever.
— Danny Bonaduce
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You need to learn what people have done, but you need to learn where they have failed... Usually when they fail it is in the…
— Colin Powell
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If he did not succeed, he at least failed in a glorious undertaking.
— Unknown Author
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There has been plenty to criticize about President Obama’s handling of the economy. Yet the overriding story of the past few years is not Mr.…
— Paul Krugman
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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…
— Barbara Brown Taylor
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