Top 100 I Have Failed Quotes
#1. I wanted to be a huge star and I have failed.
John Otway
#2. There have been times when I have failed. But there have never been times when I thought I would fail
Michael Jordan
#3. I've been called a funny person, for a long time. I don't know that I know anything about comedic acting. I'm not a good improver, which is what a lot of comedic actors are really good at. I have failed miserably when I've been asked to improvise.
John Cho
#4. My job is to call attention to the things that I think are the difference between winning and losing. If I can't do that then I have failed as a coach.
Bill Parcells
#5. I have failed, and failed, and failed again,' he said. 'But no amount of failure can move Elyon's hand of affection away from me. It's inescapable. To live boldly for that kind of love is the least I can do.
Patrick Carman
#6. Until the sky rolls back like a scroll, I have failed nothing." --Satan
James Garcia Jr.
#7. Can it be that I have overlooked something, that there is something which I have failed to understand? Is it not possible that this state of despair is common to everyone?
Leo Tolstoy
#8. If it must be so, let's not weep nor complain If I have failed, or you, or life turned sullen. We have had these things, they do not come again, But the flag still flies and the city has not fallen." Humbert Wolfe
Daphne Du Maurier
#9. A work of art doesn't have to be explained. If you do not have any feeling about this, I cannot explain it to you. If this doesn't touch you, I have failed.
Louise Bourgeois
#10. I have failed to continue to set an example for a secure, loving family unit as an example for our children. That is the reality of it. There is no way of getting around it.
Seal
#12. So I have failed you?" "Not at all. Your human frailties are not your fault.
Brian Herbert
#13. My life has been filled with countless mistakes, but also success. I have been a coward at some points but brave at others. I have loved and been loved; I have failed to love and to accept love. Above all else I have tried my best, every step of the way.
Carolyn Lee Adams
#14. If I am building a mountain and stop before the last basketful of earth is placed on the summit, I have failed.
Confucius
#15. I find quite as much material for a lecture in those points wherein I have failed, as in those wherein I have been moderately successful.
Abraham Lincoln
#16. I have failed many times, but I have never gone into a game expecting myself to fail.
Michael Jordan
#17. Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.
S.I. Hayakawa
#18. I feel shame, not for the wrong things I have done, but for the right things that I have failed to do.
Marcel Duchamp
#19. I have failed many times, and that's why I am a success.
Michael Jordan
#20. When I do things my way, I exhaust pleasure very quickly. It is not that Christianity has failed to teach me how to delight in God's presence; it is that I have failed by seeking pleasure through godless ways or by resisting God's provision for me because it is not what I want.
Ravi Zacharias
#21. To discover the meaning of what is called "social justice" has been one of my chief preoccupations for more than 10 years. I have failed in this endeavour or rather, have reached the conclusion that, with reference to society of free men, the phrase has no meaning whatever.
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#22. At every Christmas, I fail to remember the daughters' shoe sizes, and they are not growing, but grown. After ostensible hard thought about who needs what, I have failed to give good gifts; I have failed to receive good gifts.
Padgett Powell
#23. I have missed more than nine thousand shots in my career. I have lost almost three hundred games. On twenty-six occasions, I have been entrusted to take the game-winning shot ... and missed. And I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. - MICHAEL JORDAN
Frank Luntz
#24. No matter how true I believe what I am writing to be, if the reader cannot also participate in that truth, then I have failed.
Madeleine L'Engle
#25. You may be saying: 'I have failed in life and shall always be a failure.' That is because you are ever looking back, living in your failure and thereby bringing to you more failure. Reverse this attitude of mind; work it the other way and live in future success.
Prentice Mulford
#26. I have served Almighty God as best as I can. I have failed at times, but "Perfection is the palace in which God alone lives.
Saladin Ahmed
#27. We all fail - I have failed so many times, but it never discourages me. I just pick up and go.
Jim Pattison
#28. I was born with a stain. A mark. Like the mark of Cain. But is the mark of my father, my family. The mark of Borgia. I have tried to be other than I am. And I have failed. And If I have failed you in the process, I am truly sorry.
Cesare Borgia
#29. Failure is an option. It's what you do with the failure that makes you who you are. Our failures mold us. I have failed at several things in my life. What sets some of us apart, is that when we fail, we can't sleep at night. It haunts us until we have our time at redemption.
David Goggins
#30. O my Lord Jesus, answer no desire of mine if it be not according to thy judgment; and if in aught that I have asked I have failed to seek for what I want, amend my pleading, for thou art infinitely wiser than I.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#31. I have failed 'Star Wars' trivia tests. People come up to me at conventions and use terms that I've never heard of.
Mark Hamill
#32. I have spent my career trying to get Congressmen to spend the people's money as if it were their own. But I have failed.
William Proxmire
#33. Without money and without connections- I have failed you!
Jude Morgan
#34. I have tried to write about politics in an allusive manner that draws upon other interests and to approach literature and criticism without ignoring the political dimension. Even if I have failed in this synthesis, I have found the attempt worth making.
Christopher Hitchens
#35. Farewell Aragorn. Go to Minas Tirith and save my people! I have failed.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#36. No matter what I have done, no matter how I have failed, no matter how week I have been, no matter how inadequate I am, God has not changed. He has not failed.
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
#37. I have failed a lot in my philanthropy, where I will make philanthropic contributions and they just won't be effective.
Marc Benioff
#38. I would like to outsmart the role that is destined for me. But I can't. I have failed to destroy my category.
Ben Marcus
#39. If I never returned-if you never see me again-it will mean that everything is alright. That I have ended her. But if I return, it will mean I have failed. That there is still danger. And then I will find you
Samantha Shannon
#40. I have failed once again to fulfill the expectations of others, which have become my own.
Margaret Atwood
#41. I have failed so much, but I have learned so much more in life from my failures than my successes.
Bethenny Frankel
#43. I have failed at times, but I never stopped trying.
Rahul Dravid
#44. 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
#45. Today we're dumping 70 million tons of global-warming pollution into the environment, and tomorrow we will dump more, and there is no effective worldwide response. Until we start sharply reducing global-warming pollution, I will feel that I have failed.
Al Gore
#46. I have failed in finding parasites in mosquitoes fed on malaria patients, but perhaps I am not using the proper kind of mosquito.
Ronald Ross
#47. I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
Nadine Gordimer
#48. It seems to me, that if people only knew how hard it was for me to endure life, they would find it easier to forgive me for all the wrong things I've done and all the good things that I have failed to do. And they would still find a little compassion within them to pity me.
Ivo Andric
#49. 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
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. sometimes we have to face the unwilling part of our live. i'm failed to facing the unbreakable fact that i falling in love with the one who just passed my life...
Li Huang
#53. I have not failed 700 times. I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.
Thomas A. Edison
#54. I think that when we're talking about youth violence, we're talking about kids who don't have opportunities, so they're engaged in a certain degree of lawlessness, because we as a society have failed them.
Matt Gonzalez
#55. The hope and change the Democrats had in mind was nothing more than a retread of the failed and discredited socialist policies that have been the enemy of freedom for centuries all over the world. I fear America is teetering towards tyranny.
Jim DeMint
#56. It has been said that if you aim at nothing in life, you are likely to hit nothing! I have never had anyone come to me and say, 'Venita, I plan to fail.' Yet I have observed many who failed to plan and who unfortunately met with the same dismal results.
Venita VanCaspel
#57. I have sometimes done cartoons that are hurtful to people - immature, spiteful stuff. Some are so self-indulgent, and some have just failed. I look back and sometimes cringe. But one regret as I get older is that I haven't been radical and wild enough.
Michael Leunig
#58. I think I've failed every test I've ever taken. If there was a failure I would have been it.
Lisa Marie Presley
#59. I'm such a failed politician that all of my rivals have disappeared, on both sides.
Ehud Barak
#60. Whenever I have tried to write for other people, that's when my writing has failed, when nobody wanted to read it or buy it. But it's only when I've been able to write a story that makes me excited, only then have other people wanted to read it.
Patrick Ness
#61. When I have tried and failed, I shall have failed.
Sophocles
#62. You'll have to fall in love at least once in your life, or Paris has failed to rub off on you.
E.A. Bucchianeri
#63. Ah, that 'if.' But it's of no use to despond. I can but do that, when I have tried everything and failed, and even then it won't serve me much.
Charles Dickens
#64. I have tried 99 times and have failed, but on the 100th time came success.
Albert Einstein
#65. You believe you have failed. But you - created from dust - cannot see as I see.
R.J. Larson
#66. I think failing is the best way to keep you grounded, curious, and humble. Success is dangerous because often you don't understand why you succeeded. You almost always know why you've failed. You have a lot of time to think about it.
Mark Pincus
#67. My life changed four months ago, and I utterly failed to understand that until just recently, and therefore ... I may have omitted to tell you that I love you." He took a breath. "That's all.
K.J. Charles
#68. People in the news media after I got caught said how could you have not caught this guy? He had 50 corrections in four years. That's a lot of corrections. Well what they failed to look at is how many stories there were and out of 700 plus stories, 50 corrections is not a high amount.
Jayson Blair
#69. Didn't i tell you they were only windmills? And someone with windmills on the brain could have failed to see that!
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#70. I have disappointed and failed to live up to the standard I expected of myself.
Eliot Spitzer
#71. There are so many bad songs that have incredible videos. It's pretty amazing, actually. The power of putting images to music is hypnotizing. It's a real power. That's a realm that I've failed at completely.
Devendra Banhart
#72. Everyone who feels stuck in the Obama economy is right to focus on the here and now. And I hope you understand this too, if you're feeling left out or passed by: You have not failed, your leaders have failed you.
Paul Ryan
#73. Better to have tried and failed than to have never tried at all. Whoever came up with that phrase I wanted his greasy head on a silver platt
Sean Paul
#74. There is a song from this old movie called Arth where a man asks a
woman, "You are smiling so much, there must be a deep pain that you're
hiding." I wonder what your deep pains are and I wonder how I have
failed you.
Amulya Malladi
#75. Because in a small dark room, a broken child lies on a filthy bed and stares up at a high window.
He waits for me, too.
And I - I who have failed at everything and have failed everyone - I must not, I cannot, I will not fail him.
Jennifer Donnelly
#76. The book has to give the idea of another kind of newspaper, has to show how I labored away for a year to create a model of journalism independent of all pressure, implying that the venture failed because it was impossible to have a free voice
Umberto Eco
#77. The student asked the master,
"Teacher, what should I do to become great?"
the master replied:
Succeed where others have failed.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#78. 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
#79. My personal take on politics is I deal with social situations and cultural situations in my music and in my life. I have said on record many times that I haven't voted. I'm not the type of person who says, 'I'm never going to vote.' I think it's clear to me that our system has failed us.
Talib Kweli
#80. As a young man, I lived through the Great Depression, when banks failed and so many lost their jobs and homes and went hungry. I was fortunate to have a job at a canning factory that paid 25 cents an hour.
James E. Faust
#81. The best way to make money is not to have money as your primary goal. I've seen great people come into the business world primarily motivated to make money. Almost without exception they failed.
Ross Perot
#82. I sometimes like to tinker with poems that have failed, ones that I have sent aside. Even years afterward, I will revisit them if there is something about them that I cannot give up on.
John Barton
#83. You have no idea how much pain I'm in. It's like being cut open every day, bleeding onto the stones. I can't understand how any of you failed to see the blood ...
Erin Hunter
#84. As evidenced during my failed audition, I'm a thorough introvert who would completely hate living in a 'Real World' house. I would have taken my Ikea comforter to the confessional room and never come out.
Andrea Seigel
#85. If I fail, at least I will have failed my way.
Jodie Foster
#86. I do play the guitar, but I do it for fun. And I am terrible at writing music as well. I have tried and failed, horribly.
Jamie Blackley
#87. I have not failed. I have successfully discovered 1200 ideas that don't work.
Thomas A. Edison
#88. 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
#89. I have the feeling that I've seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
Anton Chekhov
#90. When I ran the stock exchange, it was the most successful it's been in its 200-plus-year history. And I was rewarded for success; I would not have been rewarded if we failed.
Richard Grasso
#91. I have a dreadful feeling in my bones that future historians may write of the May 2014 elections: This was the wake-up call from which Europe failed to wake up.
Timothy Garton Ash
#92. [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
#93. I must have been a failed football coach in a previous incarnation.
David Blunkett
#94. I failed everything in school. I left when I was 13 because I had no comprehension of what the hell they were talking about up there at the blackboard. I must have that ADD thing. But, listening to people I thought, that's wonderful to be able to tell a story.
Malachy McCourt
#95. I've had phases where the compass point seems lost. It can happen for various reasons, among them, that you're trying to do something outside your skill set; your skills have to catch up with the things you see in your head. But it's important to make all of those paintings, even the failed ones.
Joe Bradley
#96. I take seriously the concerns that voters are expressing. There's a lot of disappointment, fear, even anger, among people who believe that the economy has failed them, their government has failed them, politics has failed them. They have every right to be concerned.
Hillary Clinton
#97. To say she was my girlfriend was absurd: no one the wrong side of thirty has a girlfriend ... I suppose I ought to have realize it's ominous that forty thousand years of human language had failed to produce a word for our relationship.
Robert Harris
#98. Many of my biggest business endeavors were failures before they became a success. Some failed for as long as six years before they hit. Everyone around me thought I was crazy. You just have to stay at it.
Russell Simmons
#99. 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
#100. I think it's a great thing to have failed in life and then pulled yourself up by the boot straps and actually done something, because then you appreciate it more.
Shirley Manson
