Failed Quotes

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I therefore believe that our system does not have a word for failed trial, and that is where the American public does not realize that… — Sam Sheppard
I've probably failed more often than anybody else in Silicon Valley. Those don't matter. I don't remember the failures. You remember the big successes. — Vinod Khosla
We werenâ€™t trying to strike it rich with Firefox. Itâ€™s open source and itâ€™s free. We werenâ€™t trying to take over the world; we had… — Blake Ross
But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave… — Seneca the Younger
There is an old song which asserts 'the best things in life are free.' Not true! Utterly false! This was the tragic fallacy which brought… — Robert A. Heinlein
Feminism hasn't failed, it's just never been tried. — Hilary Mantel
The way I feel about every book is this: you don't finish it, you abandon it. All of my books have in some sense failed,… — Russell Banks
Don't act so callous to blank out good friends who failed on their way to success, just because something unusual hindered them, but you meandered… — Michael Bassey
When he lived on earth, [Jesus] surrounded himself with ordinary people who misunderstood him, failed to exercise much spiritual power, and sometimes behaved like churlish… — Philip Yancey
Obviously if you want to get good at something which is competitive, you have to think about it and practice a lot. You have to… — Charlie Munger
What if there are children who will suffer somehow because I failed to obey God? What if my cowardice costs even one child somewhere in… — Richard Stearns
Beloved, God has never failed to act but in goodness and love. When all means fail-his love prevails. Hold fast to your faith. Stand fast… — David Wilkerson
In college, I was always disappointed by lectures that covered social problems but failed to identify what I could do to change them. Part of… — Ben Rattray
No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted… — Frederic Farrar
Pointing out that countless great mathematicians had tried to solve the problem and failed before you came along is in particularly bad taste and should… — Terence Tao
I don't intend to spend my morning being lectured to by a president whose failed policies have put our children and grandchildren in a huge… — Jeff Landry
EMILY's List members are deeply committed to electing pro-choice Democratic women whom we trust to stand up for our rights, treat us honestly, and make… — Ellen Malcolm
True as this is, it is also true that for one who won through there were many who gained nothing, and it was, and is,… — Ralph Adams Cram
Democracy has not failed; the intelligence of the race has failed before the problems the race has raised — Robert M. Hutchins
I think that the war on drugs is domestic Vietnam. And didn't we learn from Vietnam that, at a certain point in the war, we… — Kurt Schmoke

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