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Failed the bright promise of your early day? -- Bill Vaughan
Failed relationships can be described as so much wasted make-up. -- Marian Keyes
Never Say I Failed 99 Times, Say I Discovered 99 Ways Which Causes Failure! -- Thomas A. Edison
It is observed that Failed people can give a successful talk on hardwork. -- Rahul Bodkhe
...but with my clamoring ego solidly in place, I considered the title, 'Memories of a Failed Nobody'. -- Huston Smith
I failed to make the chess team because of my height. -- Woody Allen
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. -- Thomas A. Edison
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better. -- Samuel Beckett
War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed. -- William McKinley
The worst... was what the Pakistani soldiers did to the Bengali women after their failed rebellion. -- Iris Chang
I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed. -- Michael Jordan
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure. -- Abraham Lincoln
It's time to bury the unreal, failed 'realism' of those who have long thought that dictators brought stability. -- Elliott Abrams
Free love? as if love is anything but free. Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love. -- Emma Goldman
I think I may have failed at a lot of things, but the one thing I can say, and that I'm proud of, is that I am a good parent. -- Naveen Andrews
A critic is a eunuch working in a harem. He watches it, but he knows he can't do it. Critics very often are failed writers and, like failed priests, they hate religion. -- Howard Fast
It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default. -- J. K. Rowling
I should have forfeited my own self-respect, and perhaps the good opinion of my countrymen, if I had failed to resent such an injury by calling the offender in question to a personal account. -- Preston Brooks
I must stress, basically, the very fact that we do have orangutan rehabilitation means that we have failed to do what is really important, and that is rescue the wild orangutan in its habitat. -- Willie Smits
And it seems to me important for a country, for a nation to certainly know about its glorious achievements but also to know where its ideals failed, in order to keep that from happening again. -- George Takei
Once you've changed who you are or who you've portrayed in your music, the fans, they'll catch it... Once I feel like the world knows me for anything else but my music, then I feel like I failed. -- The Weeknd
Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life. -- Arnold Bennett
Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don't change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped or adjusted as needed. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible with your plan. -- John C. Maxwell
I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. -- Michael Jordan
Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do. -- Pope John XXIII
I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I - if I'm not interested in something, I don't grasp it. -- Richard Branson
For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed. -- Ernest Hemingway
Women live lives of continual apology. They are born and raised to take the blame for other people's behavior. If they are treated without respect, they tell themselves that they have failed to earn respect. If their husbands do not fancy them, it is because they are unattractive. -- Germaine Greer
My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail. -- Sara Blakely
Television is the same as the telephone, and the same as the World Wide Web for that matter. People who become obsessed by the peculiarities of these communications media have simply failed to adjust to the shock of the old. People who bleat on about the 'artistic' potential of television qua television are equally deluded. -- Will Self
Fear can be good when you're walking past an alley at night or when you need to check the locks on your doors before you go to bed, but it's not good when you have a goal and you're fearful of obstacles. We often get trapped by our fears, but anyone who has had success has failed before. -- Queen Latifah
Environmentalism has failed. -- David Suzuki
Loneliness is failed solitude. -- Sherry Turkle
The Obama experiment has failed -- John Thune
Design cannot rescue failed content. -- Edward Tufte
I'm a failed newspaper man myself. -- Ernie Harwell
The death penalty experiment has failed. -- Harry A. Blackmun
A pear is a failed apple. -- George Carlin
I failed my way to success. -- Thomas A. Edison
I failed so therefore I succeed. -- Michael Jordan
Science has failed our mother Earth. -- Serj Tankian
This (multicultural) approach has failed, utterly failed, -- Angela Merkel
I've failed way more than I've succeeded. -- Daymond John
I certainly think the free-market has failed. -- Hillary Clinton
Poets are band leaders who have failed. -- Ayi Kwei Armah
I failed chemistry. I almost failed algebra. -- Taye Diggs
Technique is nothing more than failed style. -- John Waters
I never failed. It just didn't work 10,000 times. -- Thomas A. Edison
When all else failed, she tried being reasonable. -- Terry Pratchett
Feminism hasn't failed, it's just never been tried. -- Hilary Mantel
American culture at large has failed working mothers. -- Emily Matchar
Many reality shows have failed because everyone's acting. -- Nigel Barker
Social Security mess is another failed progressive policy. -- Jim DeMint
Data Science wisdom comes only through failed experimentation. -- Damian Mingle
People express their arrogance in their failed expectations. -- Travis Luedke
If you must masturbate, you have already failed -- Josh Becker
My past is everything I failed to be. -- Fernando Pessoa
I failed music when I was a teenager. -- Buzz Aldrin
If your vision dies with you, you failed. -- Myles Munroe
You have not failed until you quit trying. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
Finally, and most of all, words failed him. -- Albert Camus
If you have never failed you have never lived. -- Abraham Lincoln
If you're not polarizing, you failed, in my opinion. -- Miranda Lambert
When I started out I was a failed actor. -- David Mamet
Mental health courts exist because the system has failed. -- E. Fuller Torrey
If you've never failed, you've never tried anything new. -- Albert Einstein
The shoulder surgery was a success. The lobotomy failed. -- Mike Ditka
Fortunately, where reason failed, blind panic served well enough. -- N. K. Jemisin
If you haven't failed yet, you haven't tried anything. -- Reshma Saujani
A failed personal experience is just fear and anxiety. -- Bethenny Frankel
If you haven't failed, you're not trying hard enough. -- Jennifer Crusie
I've been married for 49 years. Where have I failed? -- Henny Youngman
If you haven't failed, you haven't tried very hard.... -- Shirley Hufstedler
Almost every dot-com idea from 1999 that failed will succeed. -- Marc Andreessen
For every citizen that was robbed, I had failed. -- Babatunde Fashola
Sometimes love worked out, but more often it failed -- M.J. Rose
I failed the audition to get into drama school. -- Peter Capaldi
One failed experiment is one step closer to Success -- Denzel Washington
A careful first draft is a failed first draft -- Patricia Hampl
You can't measure success if you have never failed. -- Steffi Graf
Who struggles can fail. Who doesn't struggle has already failed! -- Bertolt Brecht
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. -- T. S. Eliot
It's harder to get out of bed when you've failed. -- Annie Lennox
When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed. -- Marva Collins
When Netscape failed, it didn't mean the Internet was over. -- Lynn Jurich
I originally wanted to be F. Scott Fitzgerald, but failed. -- Whit Stillman
I have an enormous sense of having failed in life. -- Jonathan Kozol
I think fiction is about small ambition, small failed ambition. -- Ethan Canin
At this high moment, ability failed my capacity to describe. -- Dante Alighieri
Every generation loses the Messiah it has failed to deserve. -- Michael Chabon
Never having failed, I could not picture what failure meant. -- Nellie Bly
I have failed at times, but I never stopped trying. -- Rahul Dravid
Many have tried to kill us. All have failed. -Valek -- Maria V. Snyder
My main income came from failed movie and TV options. -- W. P. Kinsella
My life failed on the very day I was born. -- Robert Bly
All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. -- William Faulkner
Critics are those who have failed in literature and art. -- Benjamin Disraeli
There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage. -- Alexander Theroux
Compensatory education has been tried and it apparently has failed -- Arthur Jensen
Vote for war allowed war only after all else failed. -- Joe Biden
She blinded me with science and failed me in geometry. -- Thomas Dolby
A test that reveals a bug has succeeded, not failed. -- Boris Beizer
No wonder this circuit failed. It says 'Made in Japan'. -- Doc Brown
When I have tried and failed, I shall have failed. -- Sophocles
You cannot succeed if at some point you haven't failed. -- Maria Ressa
I failed to communicate, that's why I chose to leave -- Bob Dylan
No one has failed who keeps trying and keeps praying. -- Jeffrey R. Holland
Tomorrow could not get better if one failed to survive today. -- C.S. Friedman
Every Warrior of the Light has failed in his spiritual duties. -- Paulo Coelho
If you never failed, then you're probably not doing very much. -- Charles Koch
We'd failed, maybe, but some mysteries aren't meant to be solved. -- John Green
one sank into the ancient sin of anomie when challenges failed. -- Carolyn Heilbrun
The person who failed often knows how to avoid future failures. -- Randy Pausch
A failed experiment can be more important than a trivial design -- Verner Panton
When all else failed, you had to rely on eyeball intrumentation. -- Arthur C. Clarke
Socialism and Communism have failed, but now Capitalism is failing us. -- Jo M. Sekimonyo
Ninety nine failed solutions equals a gain of 99 pieces of information. -- Albert Einstein
They thought that the bullets would silence us, but they failed. -- Malala Yousafzai
All failed companies are the same: they failed to escape competition. -- Peter Thiel
Reason has seldom failed us because it has seldom been tried. -- Edward Abbey

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