Failed Quotes

1604 Failed quotes by 1228 unique authors

I do play the guitar, but I do it for fun. And I am terrible at writing music as well. I have tried and failed,… — Jamie Blackley
I went to an audition for a Harry Belafonte Roaring Twenties special for choreographer Donald McKayle, but I failed. — Judith Jamison
My best friend in medical school was a magician. And we were shown an X-ray of a sword-swallower, and I tried it and failed. Then… — Hans Rosling
When the music business failed to embrace the Internet, I thought it was game, set and match for the industry, and I quit. — Tony Fernandes
I failed music when I was a teenager. — Buzz Aldrin
The bottom line is that the euro is a failed experiment. — Paul Singer
It was not that socialism failed, it was the lack of socialism. — Wojciech Jaruzelski
As long as humans have existed, we have always desired to live longer. Every society, every religion, every culture. Of course, they all failed at… — S. Jay Olshansky
I just did not get on at my school. It completely failed to inspire me. — Chris Toumazou
The Department of Energy made an investment that failed, and it got raked over the coals for that failed investment. This is ridiculous. The fact… — Peter Diamandis
All the teaching I had ever received had failed to make me apply such intelligence as I was possessed of, directly and vividly: there had… — Edward Frederic Benson
I think many of the companies that have tried to create social worlds have failed because they approached it strictly from an opportunistic perspective. — Craig Sherman
When something succeeds, we learn little more from it than that it did succeed. When something fails, however, we are driven to try to understand… — Henry Petroski
I was never particularly academic, so it was no great surprise when I failed my 11-plus and consequently went to Wibsey Secondary Modern. I did… — Kiki Dee
I have to try and uplift the standard of living for the people in Zambia. If I cannot do that, I will have failed. — Michael Sata
Young people all over the world are very frustrated. They are very disillusioned. Many of them are turning their backs on religion. They are walking… — Myles Munroe
In elementary school, I did well in science, but I was a poor writer. When I got to high school, I failed all my courses. — Unknown Author
The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to… — Dale Turner
The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure. — Laurence J. Peter
The first war plan has failed because of Iraqi resistance. Now they are trying to write another war plan. Clearly, the American war planners misjudged… — Peter Arnett
God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed - that is the meaning of evolution. — Graham Greene
It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are… — Lord Melbourne
The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that… — William Bennett
My success was due to good luck, hard work, and support and advice from friends and mentors. But most importantly, it depended on me to… — Mark Warner
For the saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished freedom is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch… — George Sutherland

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