Top 100 If You Failed Quotes
#1. Certain experiences you can't survive, and afterward you don't fully exist, even if you failed to die.
Nic Pizzolatto
#2. There were people whom you positively ached to please. If you failed with such people they would put you into a category in their minds where they could kee you and have contempt for you forever.
Alice Munro
#3. Never promise to do the possible. Anyone could do the possible. You should promise to do the impossible, because sometimes the impossible was possible, if you could find the right way, and at least you could often extend the limits of the possible. And if you failed, well, it had been impossible.
Terry Pratchett
#4. I began to understand that glory was a Gorgon who could turn you to stone if you failed to continue to perform
Joel Dicker
#5. If you got it, ask yourself why and try to repeat the action. If you failed, ask yourself why and try to learn from the experience.
Dale Carnegie
#6. 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
#7. They founded a society based not upon currency and commodities but on the elementary notion that if you failed to raise enough to eat, you would go hungry.
Shirley Abbott
#8. Merica was middle-class for the very start - the people who came first were hyper-strivers from England. There were no vested interests, no ranks, no classes, it was very lightly populated, there were unlimited natural resources - for free essentially - if you failed, you could always start over.
Charles R. Morris
#9. If you don't learn how to be alone, you'll always be lonely, loneliness is failed solitude.
Sherry Turkle
#10. 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
#11. it's hard to believe that next time will be different (especially if you're using the same strategy that failed last time).
Stephen Guise
#12. If you believe you have a foolproof system, you've failed to take into consideration the creativity of fools.
Frank Abagnale
#13. If you never failed, then you're probably not doing very much.
Charles Koch
#14. Think it not strange if you should frequently feel yourself to have failed, nor wonder if it should turn out that at such times you have best succeeded. You must not expect to become sufficient as of yourself; no habit or exercise can render you independent of divine assistance;
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#15. If all you succeed in doing in life is getting rich by buying little pieces of paper, it's a failed life. Life is more than being shrewd in wealth accumulation.
Charlie Munger
#16. Heterosexuals failed to grasp that if you lost yourself in the tease - in the pleasure and power of turning someone on - that that could be as arousing as being teased and turned on oneself.
Mary Roach
#17. You see failed vocabulary in the adult world so often, and it's often because once you reach a certain age you're kind of embarrassed to go look up a word if you don't know what it means.
Daniel Handler
#18. When you're buying a pair of TOMS, if you don't feel like you're part of a community, then I've failed.
Blake Mycoskie
#19. 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
#20. Allowing alternative narrative modes in popular entertainment may seem obvious, yet when you turn a pilot into the people upstairs and the main character isn't after what she wants by the top of page two, you get treated as if you've failed at writing.
Andrea Seigel
#21. If you have failed more than others, there is a very good chance you are living more completely than others.
Robin S. Sharma
#22. At a certain stage of misery, you'll try anything to explain what's going on with you, even if you know it doesn't explain a thing and it's one failed explanation after another.
Philip Roth
#23. Every single human civilization has failed over time, and my belief is that it's due to a lack of rational empathy, of understanding that if you don't have equality in your society, the conflicts you breed (whether internally or externally) will eventually cause its collapse.
Chris Kluwe
#25. In a way players at the top should try to promote the game in their own countries as that is the legacy that makes you feel proud. If you have not done that you have failed as a sportsperson.
Viswanathan Anand
#26. If you don't find a new website when you Stumble, we've failed.
Garrett Camp
#27. It never pleases me to punish willful disobedience, Isabel. Having to punish you for that sort of thing means I've failed to communicate what it is I expect out of you. It means I'm failing you as a Dom if you don't understand what my wants and needs are, and I hate failing at anything.
Ella Dominguez
#28. 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
#29. If the world is telling you you're successful, but you don't feel it, you might as well have failed.
John Burdett
#30. 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
#31. Let me put it this way: If you're sitting in a movie and you're watching me, and you say, 'Isn't that Michael Caine a wonderful actor?' then I've failed.
Michael Caine
#32. 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
#33. If you fail to gain absolute self-control, you have failed in the greatest victory of life.
Antoine R. Ivins
#34. If you must masturbate, you have already failed
Josh Becker
#35. When you have failed at being nice, you've actually succeeded in being mean. Success is everywhere if you know where to look for it.
Katina Ferguson
#36. The only way you would have failed," she said, "is if you had.
Cassandra Clare
#37. If you take the hard facts of a failed relationship, it's pretty grim. But if you make an album out of it, and if the violins represent all the tears, you create something magical out of something very normal.
Lykke Li
#38. Now comes the part where I relieve you, the little people, of the burden of your failed and useless lives. But remember, as my plastic surgeon always said: if you gotta go, go with a smile.
Jack Nicholson
#39. If you're involved in an accident and you're at fault $500,000 may not be enough. Do you really want to lose your house because you failed to spend an extra couple of hundred bucks?
Bill Vaughan
#40. If you see in your children most of your own faults, you have failed as a parent, but succeeded as a neurotic.
Mignon McLaughlin
#42. As long as you gave it your best shot, even if in the opinion of others 'you failed,' you didn't fail.
Al Lewis
#44. He may have as strong a sense of what would be right, as you can have, without being so equal under particular circumstances to act up to it."
"Then, it would not be so strong a sense. If it failed to produce equal exertion, it could not be an equal conviction.
Jane Austen
#45. A rule of thumb with humor; if you worry that you might be going too far, you have already not gone far enough. If everybody laughs, you have failed.
Christopher Hitchens
#46. When you're part of the opposition you want to stay. It's part of your identity. You're useless if you leave. You feel like you have failed.
Masha Gessen
#47. They say, if you care about something, you have to set it free and if it comes back to you, it was meant to be."
"They're full of shit."
Obviously, I failed spectacularly at being philosophical.
Kristen Ashley
#48. Day and night we are watching over your welfare. It is for YOUR sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples. Do you know what would happen if we pigs failed in our duty? Jones would come back! Yes, Jones would come back! Surely, comrades, cried Squealer almost pleadingly
George Orwell
#49. Do not commit the error, common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed.
Jan De Hartog
#50. If you get the U.N. to say we're going to solve the Syrian problem, if you get the Russians involved in a productive posture, you are making progress, but the Republican core says no strategy or failed strategy.
Juan Williams
#51. In fact, if you look upon the situation today, there is great division in the world and we have failed to capitalize on that unity to finish the job in Afghanistan and against al Qaeda.
Chris Van Hollen
#52. You can't measure success if you have never failed. My father has taught me that if you really do want to reach your goals, you can't spend any time worrying about whether you're going to win or lose. Focus only on getting better.
Steffi Graf
#53. Sometimes, if you've not failed, you've not learnt many lessons. Failure can be a huge lesson to learn.
Bala V Balachandran
#54. In Texas, having a vehicle meant having a life--if you walked on the shoulder, everybody could see that you'd failed in some way. That you couldn't afford a vehicle, that your car had broken down and you couldn't pay for a cab, that you had no friends to call. Maybe you were too weird to hitchhike.
James Hannaham
#55. You can picture pretty easily if there were a paying passenger aboard a rocket that failed, like Challenger failed. Certainly it would be a tragedy, and a tragedy for the company. They would have a hard time recovering from it.
Sally Ride
#56. 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
#57. And even if you have failed at all else in the eyes of the world, if you have a loving family, you are a success.
Og Mandino
#59. It is the hardest thing of all, the one thing that will show if you have the one true courage. To know that you have failed, that your best efforts have been defeated, to not be able to stand it, to not be able to go on and yet to go on nonetheless.
Silvia Hartmann
#60. If you write a kid's book only for kids, then you have failed.
Don Roff
#61. If you are afraid to fail, then you are afraid to succeed. You can never succeed of you have not failed.
Joban Singh Bal
#62. If you have not failed yet in your life then you haven't tried anything meaningful.
Debasish Mridha
#63. Dan pulled him in. Anchored him. Secured him, like one mountain climber to the other, rope and irons and nothing but the abyss if the rope failed. "It will work. I haven't got this far to give up."
"It'll work." Dan's kisses grew more intense. "It must." Because you're mine, and you belong to me.
Aleksandr Voinov
#64. I'm not in the business of saying just one thing about just one place. If you only see Palestine in my films, then I've failed because then I'm just a provincial filmmaker.
Elia Suleiman
#65. I am quite happy for people to disagree with me on a book. If I say it is a 5 star read and you don't, you just failed to read it right. ;-)
Michael Edwards
#66. What if you have failed in the past? So, at one time did every man we recognize as a towering success. They called it temporary defeat.
Napoleon Hill
#67. I will have failed in this if in five years there are not many more people using public transport and far fewer journeys by car. It is a tall order but I want you to hold me to it.
John Prescott
#68. If your religion hasn't made you a better person, then it has failed you as a religion.
Immortal Technique
#69. It's true that if your religion failed to deliver a miracle, that a human sacrifice would certainly follow."
"Ah ... quite. You are a man of acute insight."
"That's not insight. That's a personal guarantee.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#70. 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
#72. Knowledge should mean a full grasp of knowledge:
Knowledge means to know yourself, heart and soul.
If you have failed to understand yourself,
Then all of your reading has missed its call.
Yunus Emre
#73. 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
#74. At the end of our lives, we mostly regret the risks we didn't take, the dreams we didn't do and the love we failed to give. If those things are going to be important to you at the end, make them important to you right now.
Robin S. Sharma
#75. One thing about failing repeatedly: If you're still doing it after you've failed that much, you really mean it.
Alice Sebold
#76. Arrow! Black arrow! I have saved you to the last. You have never failed me and I have always recovered you. I had you from my father and he from of old. If ever you came from the forges of the true king under the Mountain, go now and speed well!
J.R.R. Tolkien
#77. If only women are talking about women's rights, then the issue has failed from the start. If you think about the Holocaust, that wasn't just a Jewish issue. Civil rights weren't just a black issue.
Nicholas D. Kristof
#78. If you have never failed at anything, then you haven't been trying hard enough, aren't very imaginative, or have had such extraordinarily good luck that you have come to believe you are invincible.
Margaret Heffernan
#79. If you try, you've got a chance at succeeding. Failure isn't guaranteed. If you don't even try at all, you've already failed.
Christi Barth
#80. There's nothing wrong with failing if you learn from it, and I've failed out here plenty.
Trent Dilfer
#81. The only time you've failed is if you don't try once more.
Fredrik Backman
#82. Coaching is something that takes place only when learning does. No matter what you are doing in your practices, if your players are not learning something significant, you're really not coaching. If a player fails in a game, the coach may have failed in practice.
John Kessel
#83. With every kind of birth control available in the world, abortion is not something to be proud of. If you need an abortion, you've failed.
Tammy Bruce
#84. But what Desmond didn't tell you is
by the end of the hunt, if you have faced the Vampaneze Lord four times and failed to kill him, only one of you will be alive to witness the fall of the vampire clan. The other two will be dead.
Darren Shan
#85. You can study the rules until your eyes fall out of your head, but if you cannot recall which rule fits your particular situation just before some large ship hits you broadside, then a study of the rules has failed you at the worst possible time.
John W. Trimmer
#86. 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
#87. Now, McDonald's is a very good indicator of the global economy. If McDonald's doesn't increase its sales, it tells you that the monetary policies have largely failed in the sense that prices are going up more than disposable income, and so people have less purchasing power.
Marc Faber
#88. Innovation in tech favors the naive and the stubborn. If you are too rational you won't tackle problems that others once failed at.
Aaron Levie
#89. I've had a long line of failed television programs, pilots that were never picked up, series that didn't go very long. I've learned that there's really nothing you can do. If it's not in my control, I try not to worry about it.
Nathan Fillion
#90. This is the lament of older women, and ultimately of all old people - that you become invisible. It is especially hard for women, though, whose entire lives have been spent spinning around the idea that if no one is staring at you, you've somehow failed.
Jessi Klein
#92. 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
#93. Never admit defeat and ask for a quick death! Die first, then admit defeat! If you are defeated but didn't die, it just means you were lucky! At those times, think only about survival! Survive and think only about killing the one who failed to kill you!
~Kenpachi Zaraki
Tite Kubo
#94. 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
#95. If you have never failed, you have never tried anything new.
Albert Einstein
#96. You have plausible deniability, as they say in politics, as an author with movies. Because if the movie is terrible, you simply say they failed to catch the genius of the book.
Walter Kirn
#97. 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
#98. If you write a hundred short stories and they're all bad, that doesn't mean you've failed. You fail only if you stop writing.
Ray Bradbury
#99. I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.
Bette Davis
#100. Sometimes you will hear leaders say, "I'm the only person who can hold this nation together." If that's true then that leader has truly failed to build their nation.' That
Tim Marshall
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