Famous Fail Quotes

#1. You'll pardon me," said Beatrice, "if I fail to appreciate sarcasm and all the other brilliant nuances of your no doubt famous wit, Mr. Constant[ ... ]

Kurt Vonnegut

#2. Famous pivot stories are often failures but you don't need to fail before you pivot. All a pivot is is a change is strategy without a change in vision. Whenever entrepreneurs see a new way to achieve their vision - a way to be more successful - they have to remain nimble enough to take it.

Eric Ries

#3. I often put boiling water in the freezer. Then whenever I need boiling water,I simply defrost it.

Gracie Allen

#4. There's a famous quote by Benjamin Franklin that I always loved: "By failing to prepare, you're preparing to fail".

Argena Olivis

#5. Jesper could never tell how much of what Kaz got away with was smarts and planning and how much was dumb luck.

Leigh Bardugo

#6. The trouble is that when most people are apathetic ordinary people ... have to go too far, have to ruin their lives and be made an object of scorn just to get the point across. Did they really think I'd rather be camping by a polluted river than sitting in my own flat with my things about me?

Jeanette Winterson

#7. On the other hand, when I give it closer thought, I realize I'm not enough of a dictator to conduct an orchestra because it requires a pretty awful person. When you read these biographies of famous conductors, they are all awful people who fail in their private relationships.

Eberhard Weber

#8. My brief survey of stimulant aphrodisiacs would be incomplete were I to fail to include that most famous love drug of all time, chocolate or cacao, from the seeds of Theobroma cacao.

Rick Doblin

#9. Never lose faith in yourself, and never lose hope; remember, even when this world throws its worst and then turns its back, there is still always hope.

Pittacus Lore

#10. I am doomed or fortunate to stick to what I do best.

Jill Sobule

#11. Tragedy often gives birth to courage, it offers man a platform to change what will be.
Eli Storm, Emanuel Stone And The Phoenix Shadow

Isaac Solomon