Failed Quotes
1604 Failed quotes by 1228 unique authors
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The melting pot failed to function in one crucial area. Religions and nationalities, however different, generally learned to live together, even to grow together, in…
— Theodore Hesburgh
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Then we can help these failed states turn around and give their people a better life. This, too, is a critical part of this global…
— Paul Cellucci
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Results? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results! If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because…
— Thomas A. Edison
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Who struggles can fail. Who doesn't struggle has already failed!
— Bertolt Brecht
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None of you has ever failed. School may have failed you. Goodbye to failure, children. Welcome to success.
— Marva Collins
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With typical arrogance, the Anglos claimed to cherish freedom of speech but failed to recognize this right for anyone but themselves. Where did the Constitution…
— Unknown Author
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We haven't failed. We now know a thousand things that won't work, so we are much closer to finding what will.
— Thomas A. Edison
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Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead…
— George Horace Lorimer
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The essence of intercultural education is the acquisition of empathy-the ability to see the world as others see it, and to allow for the possibility…
— J. William Fulbright
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When you're buying a pair of TOMS, if you don't feel like you're part of a community, then I've failed.
— Blake Mycoskie
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This president failed so miserably in diplomacy that we are now forced to war.
— Tom Daschle
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Old men declare war because they have failed to solve complex political and economic problems.
— Art Hoppe
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I never failed once. It just happened to be a 2000-step process.
— Thomas A. Edison
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When everything else failed, we can still become immortal by making an enormous blunder...
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.
— Lewis E. Lawes
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If you want to succeed in your life, remember this phrase: That past does not equal the future. Because you failed yesterday; or all day…
— Tony Robbins
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A pear is a failed apple.
— George Carlin
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(The) chain of command has failed over the years, obviously, for a lot of reasons.
— Chuck Hagel
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I'm fortunate now that I coach at Duke University and we've won a lot. I have some kids who haven't failed that much. But when…
— Mike Krzyzewski
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Knowing that you have working with you a force, which never yet has failed in anything it has undertaken, you can go ahead in the…
— Robert Collier
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Keep these concepts in mind: You've failed many times, although you don't remember. You fell down the first time you tried to walk. You almost…
— Sherman Glenn Finesilver
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Even in Europe a change has sensibly taken place in the mind of man. Science has liberated the ideas of those who read and reflect,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Live for today. Multitudes of people have failed to live for today.... What they have had within their grasp today they have missed entirely, because…
— William Allen White
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I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
— Thomas Love Peacock
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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am…
— S I Hayakawa
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