Top 100 I Failed Quotes
#2. Is the button white or orange or green or yellow? Does it say 'sell', or 'sell now', or 'on sale' or 'for sale'? You test, you test, you test and most of the ideas you try fail and so I would argue I failed my way to success.
Fabrice Grinda
#3. I used to get really ticked about preachers who talked too much about grace, because they tempted me to not be disciplined. I figured what people needed was a kick in the butt, and if I failed at godliness it was because those around me weren't trying hard enough.
Donald Miller
#4. I've always been slightly embittered about computers because it was the only subject I failed at school.
Matt Frewer
#5. I did try to write in Iraq, and I failed. I think you just don't have the brain space for it.
Phil Klay
#6. 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.
Avi
#7. I was so blinded by her talent that I didn't recognize the tremendous pain behind her work. She gave me hundreds of images, so many chances to see that she was in trouble. I failed her.
Nina LaCour
#8. I failed, I think, seven [or] eight times before I finally got my first [championship]. It was just, you know, just about me growing up. Now that I'm an old, old veteran-age 29-I do things a lot differently. I don't go to the gentlemen's clubs anymore. I had to slow that down.
Shaquille O'Neal
#9. I failed her. And she's out of my life. I don't even know where she's living. What she's doing to get through the days. And I miss her. Every single day, I miss her.
Val McDermid
#10. In reviewing my life, in tracing its course, I fill my cell with the pleasure of being what for want of a trifle I failed to be, recapturing, so that I may hurl myself into them as into dark pits, those moments when I strayed through the trap-ridden compartments of a subterranean sky
Jean Genet
#11. Love passed me by and I failed to get the plates.
Amanda Mosher
#12. I failed to fulfill what should have been an interesting role. I couldn't take their formula and bring what I had, my humor, my ideas, and make it my own.
Dianne Wiest
#13. I failed angst in high school. They let me graduate anyway.
John Scalzi
#15. What if there are children who will suffer somehow because I failed to obey God? What if my cowardice costs even one child somewhere in the world his or her life?
Richard Stearns
#16. In my film "Benny's Video," I depicted violence but I failed to say all that I had to say, so I wanted to continue the dialog and that's why I did "Funny Games." The irony is that after I shot "Funny Games," but it hadn't been released at all anywhere.
Michael Haneke
#17. I failed first grade, which is my biggest problem. You always feel like a failure, like you're stupid.
Amy Sedaris
#18. I failed math; Einstein passed it. But he couldn't paint and sculpt like me. So we all have these specialties, these strengths.
Robert Toth
#19. I failed and faltered many times, but I can look back without regret because I was never burdened with the paralysis of fear and inaction.
Diana Nyad
#20. I think it's better to be overly ambitious and fail than to be underambitious and succeed in a mundane way. I have been very fortunate. I failed upward in my life!
Francis Ford Coppola
#21. Sometimes I was so busy being tuned in to outside ideas, expectations, and demands, I failed to hear the unique music in my soul. I forfeited my ability to listen creatively to my deepest self, to my own God within.
Sue Monk Kidd
#22. History was easy, but I don't know about the Calculus. It seemed like it was making sense, so that probably means I failed.
Stephenie Meyer
#23. How often I failed in my duty to God, because I was not leaning on the strong pillar of prayer.
Teresa Of Avila
#24. I failed miserably at trying not to fall in love with you.
...
I failed first.
Colleen Hoover
#25. You, my dear, are my drug. I'm so damn addicted. I can't quit you. I know, because I've tried, not for me, but for you. I failed miserably. The more I have of you, the more I need. I can never get enough.
Aleatha Romig
#26. I'm sorry, my lady," said Geric, rubbing his arm. "But I failed to force an apology out of the offending goose.
Shannon Hale
#27. I never wanted to kill, I am not naturally evil. Such things I do just to make myself more attractive to you -have I failed?
Morrissey
#28. The only reason I lost, the only reason I failed to get what I want, is because the monster is me, there's no difference between us. It makes all the moves, calls all the shots, while I'm just along for the ride, with no idea how to pull the brakes or get off.
Alyson Noel
#29. The day passed as it always did - in slow motion, with a thousand plaintive glances at the clock. But now it was even more unbearable, because every minute I wasted in school was another minute in which I failed to find her.
John Green
#30. I failed to communicate, that's why I chose to leave
Bob Dylan
#31. Resort to force in the Great War (I) failed to bring tranquillity. Victory and defeat alike were sterile. That lesson the world should have learned.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#32. Either way, I'm sure I failed. He fidgeted with
Kiera Cass
#33. If I make my window ten days for stand-up, the conclusion is that I failed and that I'm not good at stand-up. If I make it ten years - if I just wait - the conclusion might be something totally different. I think it's so cool to do things in which you discover the malleability of your own mind.
Demetri Martin
#34. I didn't quit football because I failed a drug test, I failed a test because I was ready to quite football.
Tom Arnold
#35. I failed public speaking in grade school, 'cause I was so nervous and scared.
Gary Clark Jr.
#36. I failed to make the chess team because of my height.
Woody Allen
#37. Never Say I Failed 99 Times, Say I Discovered 99 Ways Which Causes Failure!
Thomas A. Edison
#38. To her friends said the Bright one in chatter, "I have learned something new about matter: My speed was so great, Much increased was my weight, Yet I failed to become any fatter!"
Arthur Henry Reginald Buller
#39. What is there to be afraid of? The worst thing that can happen is you fail. So what? I failed at a lot of things. My first record was horrible.
John Mellencamp
#40. I failed in some subject but my friend pass in all,today he is an engineer in microsoft and iam is owner of microsoft.
-Bills Gate
Gangaji
#41. I failed eating, failed drinking, failed not cutting myself into shreds. Failed friendship. Failed sisterhood and daughterhood. Failed mirrors and scales and phone calls. Good thing I'm stable.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#42. Even when I was looking for a job, there was no urgency about it because I knew you'd be there if I failed. Maybe that's why I never figured out what I'm good at. I haven't failed enough.
Nina Lane
#43. The more times I was turned down, the more I believed I was getting closer to making it. A lot of people in Korea say that failure is the mother of success, so I believed that more times I failed, the more likely I was to succeed.
Rain
#44. It's important to celebrate your failures as much as your successes. If you celebrate your failures really well, and if you get to the motto and say, 'Wow, I failed, I tried, I was wrong, I learned something,' then you realize you have no fear, and when your fear goes away, you can move the world.
Sebastian Thrun
#45. 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
#46. I'm glad that I lost, I'm glad that I failed, I'm glad that I felt that way and decided to do something about it.I never wanted to feel that way again and it drove me.
Joe Manganiello
#47. Even if I failed at least I tried and for that I will always be a winner!
S.M.Brown
#48. I went to dance classes from 9 in the morning until 1, then to school from 3 to 10 at night, always under the threat that if I failed a single course I could forget about dancing.
Victoria Abril
#49. I failed over and over and over and that is why I succeed.
Michael Jordan
#50. 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 all right in English, history and music, which were the subjects that most interested me.
Kiki Dee
#51. The secret to my success is actually simple: I failed so many times that succeeding eventually became a mathematical certainty.
Max Hawthorne
#52. I wander cowboy sidewalks of wood, wearing a too-small hat, filled with remorse for the many lives I failed to lead.
George Saunders
#53. I failed the LSAT. Basically, if I had not failed, I'd have been a lawyer and there would be no Spanx. I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course. My attitude to failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. It is liberating.
Sara Blakely
#54. I was very fascinated with meteorology at a young age. I lived on the Gulf Coast and hurricanes blew through there. That is the class I failed in college: meteorology.
Jim Parsons
#55. I think that I failed by not studying more, and praying more, and spending more time with my family.
Billy Graham
#56. I knew that if I failed I wouldn't regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.
Jeff Bezos
#57. I made mistakes. My supporters and I failed to prevent a main like [Mikhail] Saakashvili from acquiring absolute power. I should have criticized him earlier on.
Irakli Okruashvili
#58. For most of that time, I've also been a keen gardener, but for many years I failed to make the connection between gardening and science.
Ken Thompson
#59. What if I failed and lost? I had been in a million fights on the streets
Mike Tyson
#60. Brian was the oldest, I was in the middle and Carl was the baby. I was the troublemaker. Brian got great grades and Carl got the kind of grades I did. I failed everything. I was too busy fighting and running wild.
Dennis Wilson
#61. I'm a military man, I did what I did only because my country had to be saved from tribalism and feudalism. If I failed, it was only because I was betrayed. The so-called genocide was nothing more than just a war in defence of the revolution and a system from which all have benefited.
Mengistu Haile Mariam
#62. I love marriage. I failed at marriage, but I'd rather go into anything with gusto and fail than go into it half-assed.
Kirstie Alley
#63. In the years that followed, I failed her so many times, each time asserting my own will, my right to fall short of expectations.
Amy Tan
#64. I failed the test. He's right. It wasn't justice. Justice is dispassionate; it is fair. I am the leader. I passed the sentence. I should have done it. Instead, I gave license to vengeance and vendetta. The cancer will not be cut away; I made it worse.
Pierce Brown
#65. I hate when someone keep on asking me to guess even after I failed to crack twice!
Nelson Jack
#66. 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
#68. I failed in some subjects in exam, but my friend passed in all. Now he is an engineer in Microsoft and I am the owner of Microsoft.
Bill Gates
#69. Imitating others, I failed to find myself. I looked inside and discovered I only knew my name. When I stepped outside I found my real Self. ~Rumi
Maryam Mafi
#70. The life around me was not meaningful. I always longed to be away from it, and always had done. So the life I led was not my own. I tried to make it mine, this was my struggle, because of course I wanted it, but I failed, the longing for something else undermined all my efforts.
Karl Ove Knausgard
#71. I feel like I failed," I said. "Don't beat yourself up," Jim said. "She might not have turned out like you planned, but that don't mean she turned out wrong.
Jeannette Walls
#72. I was hopeless at high school - I failed everything but Latin ...
Keanu Reeves
#73. If I failed in what I now designed to undertake, who, save myself, would suffer?
Charlotte Bronte
#74. For years, I had heard about the lack of interest in literature in the U.S. and I had complained about it. I failed to understand how people could fail to be moved by art.
Rita Dove
#75. And among academicians, and among spirits. I found folly everywhere, but there were grains of wisdom in every stream of it. No doubt there was much more wisdom that I failed to recognize. Life is hard, Mr. Scoresby, but we cling to it all the same.
Philip Pullman
#76. There's something about strength that I really admire, that I failed to see a lot of when I was growing up.
Michelle Rodriguez
#77. In my own humorless state I failed to see anything except what I construed as certain tragic similarities between Gatsby and myself.
Donna Tartt
#78. It's my job to lead you to success, and, if you fail, it's because I failed, not you.' (Spoken by Bracke, told by Eric)
Shannon A. Thompson
#79. I simply asked if I could have a go at adapting a screenplay. But I did not want any money, in case I failed because I did not want a script out there with my name on it that might be completely dysfunctional.
Ben Affleck
#80. I went to Jersey City State College to please a family member. I wasn't prepared for school. To say I failed out is putting it nicely.
Derek Luke
#81. I failed world geography, civics, Spanish and English. And when you fail Spanish and English, they do not consider you bilingual. They may call you bi-ignorant because you can't speak any language.
Tim Scott
#82. Actually, I failed drama in high school because of nerves. I wasn't able to memorize the words. I had complete stage fright.
Constance Marie
#83. I've been married for 49 years. Where have I failed?
Henny Youngman
#84. I failed to understand what was so enviable about having a position that a pack of phonies sucked up to. Dishwashing suited me because nice people were nice to me and assholes were assholes to me, yet no one ever sucked up to me.
Pete Jordan
#85. Nearly every night before I go to bed I ask myself, Have I vibrated in tune with the Infinite today, or have I failed?
Don Marquis
#86. With Metavoid, I wanted to move forward with the Lustmord sound, rather than recreating past works such as Heresy or Black Stars, I wanted to create a sound that was new, but which was also unmistakably Lustmord. It's for others to decide if I failed or succeeded.
Brian Williams
#87. Freedom is an abstract offshoot. You can't describe freedom. How can you describe it? I tried and I failed.
Neil Young
#88. Now, I was well aware that certain sports required certain modes of dress for protection, but I failed to see how wearing a sleeveless blouse on the course qualified as a safety hazard. God forbid the sight of my bare shoulders should send male golfers into a tizzy, knocking balls everywhere.
Kelley Armstrong
#89. And so, at the age of thirty, I had successively disgraced myself with three fine institutions, each of which had made me free of its full and rich resources, had trained me with skill and patience, and had shown me nothing but forbearance and charity when I failed in trust.
Simon Raven
#90. Yo, I failed ninth grade three times, but I don't think it was necessarily 'cause I'm stupid.
Eminem
#91. I failed the audition to get into drama school.
Peter Capaldi
#92. I don't know what a hard-ass feminist is. I'm a feminist, which only means that I think men and women deserve equal treatment. Hardly a groundbreaking concept. But I'm sure you're about to give an example of where I failed in that.
Kelley Armstrong
#93. But what bothers me is that I only accidentally noticed them. What else have I missed? How many times in my life have I been, so to speak, on the back porch, not the front porch? What would have been said to me that I failed to hear? What love might there have been that I didn't feel?
Lucia Berlin
#95. It doesn't matter if I failed. At least I passed the concept on to others. Even if I don't succeed, someone will succeed.
Jack Ma
#96. When I failed to move, Valek pushed me off the mat and curled in my place under the covers. "Ahh. Still warm."
"You're evil," I said, but he feigned sleep.
Maria V. Snyder
#97. I figured, if I failed, I'd tried something that I hadn't tried before and if one movie was going to destroy my career than I didn't have much of a career to start with. I just went for it. God willing I wasn't over the top and didn't embarrass myself.
Elizabeth Pena
#98. I thought being faithful was about becoming someone other than who I was ... it wasn't until I failed that I began to wonder if my human wholeness might be more useful to God than my exhausting goodness.
Barbara Brown Taylor
#99. My dad's a photographer. So I suppose he named me Ansel just in case I would take over the family business. I guess I failed him.
Ansel Elgort
#100. I failed many times, but I always found myself stronger and wiser.
Debasish Mridha
