Failed Effort Quotes

#1. Ill-Success failed to crush us: the mere effort to succeed had given a wonderful zest to existence; it must be pursued.

Charlotte Bronte

#2. When I have tried and failed, I shall have failed.

Sophocles

#3. 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

#4. It would be hard to find a single instance of a direct assault by positive effort upon poverty, vice, and misery which has not either failed or, if it has not failed directly and entirely, has not entailed other evils greater than the one which it removed.

William Graham Sumner

#5. I'm following a real event and real people.

John Landis

#6. There was no indication of panic. The broken files marched back in steady step. The effort was nobly made and failed from the blows that could not be fended.

James Longstreet

#7. [I am] saddened, saddened, that this president [Bush] failed so miserably at diplomacy that we're now forced to go to war. Saddened that we have to give up one life because this president couldn't create the kind of diplomatic effort that was so critical for our country.

Tom Daschle

#8. To be alive was to be disappointed. You tried and failed and kept on trying, never knowing whether you'd ever get what you wanted. But sometimes we get what we need.

Joan D. Vinge

#9. As Henry Moore carved
or modelled his sculpture every day,
he strove to surpass Donatello
4. and failed, but woke the next morning
elated for another try.

Donald Hall

#10. Perhaps only when human effort had done it's best and failed, would God's power alone be free to work.

Corrie Ten Boom

#11. One might rationally argue that individual human beings should be free choose what moral behavior they approve of, and which they don't, subject to the constraints of the law.

Lawrence M. Krauss

#12. We cannot simply forgive and forget, nor should we.

Sharon Salzberg

#13. Our attitude to people determines their attitude to us.

Sunday Adelaja

#14. Read the Bible for the salvation of your soul, not the solution to your problem.

T. B. Joshua

#15. Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.

Dean Koontz

#16. I was determined that if I failed it wouldn't be due to lack of effort.

Heston Blumenthal

#17. The young girl inspected her flounces and smoothed her ribbons again; and Winterbourne presently risked an observation upon the beauty of the view. He was ceasing to be embarrassed, for he had begun to perceive that she was not in the least embarrassed herself.

Henry James

#18. Yet, most every corporate effort to graft this truly innovative practices into their culture has failed because, again and again, people reduce the living practice of AAR's to a sterile technique.

Peter Senge

#19. To recognize that the greatest error is not to have tried and failed, but that in trying, we did not give it our best effort

Gene Kranz

#20. I could have been a superstar in America - I was certainly taken out there. But I said, 'No way, Jose, I'm not staying here in this madhouse.'

Charlotte Rampling

#21. The land of possibility is a better place to make your home than the realm of expectation will ever be

Rasheed Ogunlaru

#22. You know, I never did music for money. I did music to hear myself in the club, and to hear my creation on the radio.

Swizz Beatz

#23. I think the low emotional moments happen for every author. This is the time to find a sturdy mental ballast & realize self-doubt storms pass--you know, the same way hurricanes do.

Rebecca Taylor

#24. I've had several work addiction cycles in my life. Those were situations when important tasks were assigned to me. I took into account that people should remember me based on what I did rather than based on what I failed to do.

Eraldo Banovac

#25. When you really want something, the whole universe conspires in helping you to achieve it

Paulo Coelho

#26. The East has failed because it tried meditation without love. The West has failed because it tried love without meditation. My whole effort is to give you a synthesis, the whole - which means meditation plus love.

Osho

#27. Marena," he said with an effort, "Marena ... " He did not recognize her. His voice failed.

Felix Salten

#28. Mankind has failed miserably in its effort to devise a rational system of government. [ ... ] The art of government is the exclusive possession of quacks and frauds. It has been so since the earliest days, and it will probably remain so until the end of time.

H.L. Mencken

#29. I don't care so much anymore about 'good photography'; I am gathering evidence for history.

Gilles Peress

#30. Failed efforts are there for you to examine and learn from.

Kelli Wilson

#31. You will always win if you make an effort, no matter how much. However, if you failed it means you were too lazy.

Albert Camus