Top 62 I Have Failed Myself Quotes

#1. If you don't learn how to be alone, you'll always be lonely, loneliness is failed solitude.

Sherry Turkle

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#2. If the people are foolish, he said, it is because their leader has failed them.

Brian Staveley

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#3. Every time you use a coffeemaker for your morning cappuccino, you are benefiting from the fragility of the coffeemaking entrepreneur who failed. He failed in order to help put the superior merchandise on your kitchen counter.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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#4. I was raised on John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee series. Something about this genre - hard-boiled-private-eye-with-heart-of-gold - never failed to take me away from whatever difficulties haunted my daily world to a wonderful land where I was no more than an enthralled spectator.

Alan Furst

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#5. The frightful engines of ecclesiastical councils, of diabolical malice, and Calvinistical good-nature never failed to terrify me exceedingly whenever I thought of preaching.

John Adams

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#6. I don't believe in the so-called Olympic spirit. I speak from personal experience. When China hosted the Games, it failed to include the people. The event was constructed without regard for their joy.

Ai Weiwei

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#7. ... unpacked her books, her sweet delight in happier days, and her soothing resource in the hours of moderate sorrow: but there were hours when even these failed of their effect; when the genius, the taste, the enthusiasm of the sublimest writers were felt no longer.

Ann Radcliffe

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#8. The great enemy of communication, we find, is the illusion of it. We have talked enough; but we have not listened. And by not listening we have failed to concede the immense complexity of our society - and thus the great gaps between ourselves and those with whom we seek understanding.

William H. Whyte

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#9. To have failed is to have striven, to have striven is to have grown.

Maltbie Davenport Babcock

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#10. Like waves, men and women exist only in motion, in change. Put them on the page, and you have already failed. And

Brian Staveley

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#11. My scars tell a story. They are a reminder of times when life tried to break me, but failed. They are markings of where the structure of my character was welded.

Steve Maraboli

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#12. In spite of her vapourish airs (as the housewives of Yonville called them), Emma, all the same, never seemed gay, and usually she had at the corners of her mouth that immobile contraction that puckers the faces of old maids, and those of men whose ambition has failed.

Gustave Flaubert

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#13. Have we failed to slow global warming pollution in part because climate and environmental activists have been too polite and well behaved?

Jeff Goodell

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#14. You should know, I tried for many years not to be in love with you, but I failed. And I really did try very hard. But it was not possible, and it never has been, because I have actually loved you from very early in our relationship. Possibly as early as our first meeting.

Augusten Burroughs

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#15. Originality and creativity are nothing but the result of the wise management of combinations. The creative genius combines more rapidly, and with a greater critical sense of what gets tossed out and what gets saved, the same material that the failed genius has to work with.

Umberto Eco

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#16. That we have collectively failed to halt and repudiate the war in Iraq makes us even worse than the Germans.

Scott Ritter

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#17. Most governments in Latin America have failed to recognize the rights of indigenous people and their right to their own traditional territories.

Bianca Jagger

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#18. I was supposed to be powerless, and as a result they failed to see that I possessed claws.

Nenia Campbell

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#19. Until a person has failed significantly or missed the boat, they will not know how to hold the tension until the right moment or how to test the waters before pushing on.

Michael Meade

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#20. Rarely do you regret what you have done nearly as much as what you have failed to do.

Jeffrey Fry

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#21. I wanted to be a huge star and I have failed.

John Otway

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#22. I failed music when I was a teenager.

Buzz Aldrin

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#23. Me: Don't thank me, Sydney. You shouldn't thank me, because I failed miserably at trying not to fall in love with you.

Colleen Hoover

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#24. There's an exception to every rule, Nora. And you've never failed at being the exception before.

Marilyn Grey

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#25. I failed math twice, never fully grasping probability theory. I mean, first off, who cares if you pick a black ball or a white ball out of the bag? And second, if you're bent over about the color, don't leave it to chance. Look in the damn bag and pick the color you want.

Janet Evanovich

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#26. Mom also hinted a couple of times that it was good I was going to college, since with one failed marriage behind me, I 'd have trouble landing a good husband and would need something to fall back on. "A package that's been opened once doesn't have the same appeal".

Jeannette Walls

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#27. The U.N. can be very frustrating and at times impotent, but it can also be a valuable forum for discussion and resolution of world problems. We should not walk away from it just because it's failed to live up to its promise.

Robert Foster Bennett

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#28. My mother tried to teach me when I was a small child to sing but failed because of my inability to carry a tune.

Heber J. Grant

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#29. It's not natural disasters that are to blame for the deprivation of the North Korean people, but the failed policies of Kim Jong Il.

John Bolton

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#30. If I don't cry while writing a key emotional scene, my gut feeling is it's failed.

Jojo Moyes

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#31. When I began writing songs, there was a pretty direct line between what was happening in my life and what I wrote about. So my first album was really all about my failed attempts to make a particular relationship work.

Erin McKeown

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#32. Let's cut to the chase, the sharia controversy. I don't think I, or my colleagues, predicted just how enormous the reaction would be. I failed to find the right words. I succeeded in confusing people. I've made mistakes - that's probably one of them.

Rowan Williams

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#33. I think if the average person that uses AOL can't physically see the changes in the company, we've failed.

Tim Armstrong

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#34. So the cluviel dor was a test of Eric's sincerity, in Niall's eyes. And the cluviel dor was a test of my love for Eric, in Eric's eyes," I said. "And we both failed the test.

Charlaine Harris

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#35. 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

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#36. Yeah. I failed R&R in school. I was too busy studying for my anal retention classes.

Rosanna Leo

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#37. Christian researcher George Barna concludes, "American Christianity has largely failed since the middle of the twentieth century because Jesus' modern-day disciples do not act like Jesus.

Skye Jethani

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#38. In every business I had ever started, even ones that had totally failed, I had kept good relations with the investors.

James Altucher

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#39. Who had he been? A failed father, a runaway husband. A son. A packet of unopened letters. He was dead; he was dead.

Anthony Doerr

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#40. I completely failed to see the value in memorizing the stupid periodic table of elements.

Inara Scott

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#41. [May] understood people and she let them be whatever way they needed to be. She had faith in every single person she ever met, and this never failed her, for nobody ever disappointed May. Seems people knew she saw the very best of them, and they'd turn that side to her to give her a better look.

Cynthia Rylant

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#42. If someone would have asked him to describe that moment, he would have failed miserably. The only thing he knew was this is how it felt to love and be loved in return. Till now love as a feeling was alien to him but tonight he had witnessed its definitions in the most profound manner ever possible.

Namrata

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#43. The surface causes of Adams's anxieties are not difficult to discern. Every activist knew the penalty for treason. Every congressman knew that prison, perhaps death, would be his reward if the American rebellion failed.

John Ferling

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#44. Let's be honest about this; the liberal agenda with failed stimulus plans and government entitlement programs is crippling our economy and our quality of life.

Alveda King

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#45. Sarah Palin has managed to use her failed vice presidential run to put herself in a position of power and influence. Joe Biden won the race and he hasn't been able to put himself in a position of power and influence.

Craig Ferguson

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#46. The mathematician who is without value to mathematicians, the thinker who is obscure or meaningless to thinkers, the dramatist who fails to move the pit, may be wise, may be eminent, but as an author he has failed.

George Henry Lewes

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#47. I have disappointed and failed to live up to the standard I expected of myself.

Eliot Spitzer

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#48. 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

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#49. I think teaching keeps me honest because if I'm up in front of a class talking about what I think is important about fiction while knowing I myself have just failed to do that hours earlier at my computer - it's a good and humbling reminder.

Aimee Bender

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#50. There is a time in every life when paths are chosen, character is forged. I could have chosen a different path. But I didn't. I failed myself.

Libba Bray

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#51. For me, this is old. I probably know what is happening better than he does because I've tried over and over to wreck myself on another human, and always failed. I fail now. For it seems that my sorrow is deep in my bones and I'd have to break every single one to let it out.

Louise Erdrich

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#52. I have failed many times, but I have never gone into a game expecting myself to fail.

Michael Jordan

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#53. I could never kill myself. What if it doesn't work. Then I'll have failed at the only thing that could save me from my failures. Where do you go from there?

Tucker Max

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#54. I failed you that night, Cassie. I'll never forgive myself for not making sure you were safe and protected. That should have never happened to you. And it won't ever happen again. I promised you I'd never let anyone hurt you like that. Just let me keep my fucking promise to you

J. Sterling

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#55. I went into Andie's bathroom, took a piss, looked at myself in the mirror, and made myself say it: You are a cheater. You have failed one of the most basic male tests. You are not a good man. And when that didn't bother me, I thought: You're really not a good man.

Gillian Flynn

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#56. 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

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#57. When people say, "I know God forgives me, but I can't forgive myself," they mean that they have failed an idol, whose approval is more important than God's.

Timothy Keller

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#58. I have asked myself once or twice lately what was my natural bent. I have no doubt at all: It is to look at each day for the evil of that day and have a go at it, and that is why I have never failed to have an acute interest in each morning's letters.

Geoffrey Fisher

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#59. My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself.

George Bernard Shaw

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#60. And as a filmmaker, I'm trying to unhook myself from this idea that unless you have a brilliant, long, enormously lucrative theatrical run, that your movie somehow failed. And I don't believe that.

Josh Radnor

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#61. 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

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#62. For a long time all I wanted for Christmas were books about outdoor survival. I was convinced that the woods were calling me. I camped a lot, I took classes. At 18, I told myself if I don't live in the woods by myself by the time I'm 25, I have failed.

Chris Evans

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