Top 100 I've Failed Quotes
#1. 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
#2. I think I've failed every test I've ever taken. If there was a failure I would have been it.
Lisa Marie Presley
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. If there's anyone still present whom I've failed to insult ... I apologize.
Edward Abbey
#6. I don't think anybody should do what they do in hopes of being successful. But I always expect myself to be successful at things. And if I'm not, I feel bad. I don't care for failure. I've failed at a number of things, and it's not my favorite state of mind. So I prefer success.
Michael Feldman
#7. At the premieres, I always watch the audience. If a child asks to go to the bathroom, I know I've failed.
Gian Carlo Menotti
#8. I've tried a few times to depart from what I know I can do, and I've failed. I've tried to work outside the studio, but it introduces too many variables that I can't control. I'm really quite narrow, you know.
Irving Penn
#9. 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
#10. When I die, I want to be able to say I've lived, I've loved, I've failed, I've succeeded but through it all, I made myself happy,
Treasure Malian
#11. I don't look up. It's such a little thing - knowing where to put cutlery - but I feel like I've failed an important test. A little piece of me is gone.
Emma Healey
#12. I've failed over and over but I get back up stronger, better, and bolder. It's the only way I know and want to live.
Farshad Asl
#13. I've been trying to tame our press corps ever since I got into politics, and I've failed miserably. They get to express their opinions sometimes in the form of news.
George W. Bush
#14. Every time I've failed, people had me out for the count, but I always come back.
Sylvester Stallone
#15. It's not all been rosy; I've had difficult situations where I've failed. But when you fail you learn a lot about yourself and come back stronger. The message is: life need not have limits. Having an opportunity in life is important but what defines you is what you do with that opportunity.
Richard Whitehead
#16. 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
#17. If it all looks good on the surface, I'll know I've failed at life
Julia Hoban
#18. I swore to you that I wouldn't let that happen, and I know I've failed you, but I'm not going to just give up, Alex. I'll never give up on you.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#19. If I succeed in business but fail as a father, then I've failed.
Mark Wahlberg
#20. I'm not sure that I shall. I'm trying to develop my own large capacity for dullness and contentment. I've failed at every positive thing I've tried. I'd better 'settle down,' as they call it, and be satisfied to be - nothing.
Sinclair Lewis
#21. In 'The Big Chill,' those characters are in middle age, thinking, 'Oh, God, I've turned into my parents. I've failed.' And in 'Beside Still Waters,' we're showing the struggles of people who actually want to be like their parents and feel they can't live up to their heights.
Chris Lowell
#22. I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
Michael Jordan
#23. Hey, I don't have all the answers. In life, to be honest, I've failed as much as I've succeeded. But I love my wife. I love my life. And I wish you, my kind of successes.
Cameron Crowe
#24. There's nothing wrong with failing if you learn from it, and I've failed out here plenty.
Trent Dilfer
#25. If I don't direct a movie at some point, I've failed personally.
Adam Brody
#27. Should have a Ph.d. on the subject of women. Anyhow the fact of the matter is I've failed usually. I'm exceptionally enamored with women; I respect them. Yet, in the same way as all men, I don't comprehend them.
Frank Sinatra
#28. I feel that if my only audience is the Christian audience, then I've failed in my mission
Eric Wilson
#29. I've had some decent wins this year against higher ranked players but what I've failed to do is to build on those.
Tim Henman
#30. Look, I don't need to feel like hell for failing you, okay? For failing you like I've failed every other godforsaken thing that I care about! I don't need it!
Dean Winchester
#31. I feel in my own life I've made many mistakes. I've failed in many directions.
Sheldon Harnick
#32. Genius? Nothing! Sticking to it is the genius! ...
I've failed my way to success.
Thomas A. Edison
#33. He has a key and could come back in, but I doubt he will. He doesn't want to be here any more than I want him here. We've failed. I've failed. I made a promise that I couldn't, didn't, keep.
Jael McHenry
#34. In general, I think, less is more, and that if a reader stops reading because a book is too icky then I've failed in my obligation to the readers.
Jeffery Deaver
#35. But when I lose my temper, I find it difficult to forgive myself. I feel I've failed. I can be calm in a crisis, in the face of death or things that hurt badly. I don't get hysterical, which may be masochistic of me.
Emma Thompson
#36. I no longer believe I can save people. I've tried, and I've failed, and while I'm sure there are people out there in the world with that particular gift, I'm not one of them ... But books, on the other hand: I do still believe that books can save you.
Rebecca Makkai
#37. I don't live my life as a Christian with trepidation, feeling that perhaps I've failed to give the best gospel possible on each occasion, but realising that God's taking care of a lot through his Holy Spirit.
Larry Norman
#38. 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
#39. I think if the average person that uses AOL can't physically see the changes in the company, we've failed.
Tim Armstrong
#40. I've probably failed more often than anybody else in Silicon Valley. Those don't matter. I don't remember the failures. You remember the big successes.
Vinod Khosla
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. I failed at the biggest things there are in life. I failed in my health, I failed in my marriage, I failed in everything, and I've picked myself up and gone on.
Sharon Stone
#44. 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
#45. To Grandma,
for being my first editor and giving me the best writing advice I've ever received: Christopher, I think you should wait until you're done with elementary school before worrying about being a failed writer.
Chris Colfer
#46. 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
#47. I think that we've got to see that a riot is the language of the unheard. And, what is it that America has failed to hear? It has failed to hear that the economic plight of the Negro poor has worsened over the last few years.
Martin Luther
#48. I want to thank all of the L.A. fans. You've never failed me. I live through you.
Luis Coronel
#49. I have the feeling that I've seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
Anton Chekhov
#50. Whenever Hailey tells me kids at school were mean to her I want to go find those kids and tell them that I'm them from the future and that they've failed miserably. And then I'd be like, "And look how fat you got.
Jenny Lawson
#51. 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
#52. My whole purpose of being a musician is to not follow the rules, so if I set rules for myself, I've already failed.
Lotic
#53. In their faces
plenty of them were handsome, but ruined
I've seen the remnants of who they almost succeeded in being but failed to be, before becoming themselves.
Richard Ford
#54. I mean, I'm 48 years old and I've been through a lot in my life - you know, loss, whether it be death, illness, separation. I mean, the failed expectations ... We all have dreams.
Annie Lennox
#55. I don't believe in failure, because simply by saying you've failed, you've admitted you attempted. And anyone who attempts is not a failure. Those who truly fail in my eyes are the ones who never try at all. The ones who sit on the couch and whine and moan and wait for the world to change for them.
Sarah Dessen
#56. I think a lot of us think we've failed when we've put the weight back on, but when this happens. you have to pay attention because you can actually learn something. You didn't fail. You just need to stay conscious and know where you went wrong and try again.
Jessie Pavelka
#57. One of the things I'm constantly telling my students is that they're never going to write a poem everyone gets, or if they do, they've failed. They should leave someone behind every time.
Rigoberto Gonzalez
#58. If I'm not moved by what happens at the end of this play, then I've completely failed, and so has the play, and so has our production. And if that's the case then there really isn't any reason to want to do it.
Judd Hirsch
#59. I've tried and failed a lot. But I've also tried to be really clear about my brand. It is who I am. I'm a mum, I'm a wife, I'm 44 and from the Midwest.
Cindy Crawford
#60. I'm a grown woman. I can come up with plenty of things that I've done and said or didn't say or failed to do that remain with me as sources of embarrassment.
Amy Bloom
#61. When I was 15, I had lucky underwear. When that failed, I had a lucky hairdo, then a lucky race number, even lucky race days. After 15 years, I've found the secret to success is hard work.
Margaret Groos
#62. I've always felt that one of the mistakes people make is that they try to do something that is just slightly beyond their skill set, and then feel they've failed.
Nora Ephron
#63. 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
#64. I've never been more sure of anything in my life than I am of the fact that I love you and I can't stop loving you. I tried. God knows I tried, because I didn't think you'd ever be able to let me love you like I wanted to. But I failed, and now I love you even more than I did before.
Catherine Gayle
#65. He saw something that makes a man doubtful of the constancy of the realities outside himself. It was the shocking discovery that makes a man wonder if I've missed this, what else have I failed to see?
John Steinbeck
#66. I've been a strong financial and political supporter of, first, President Bush Sr. when he was running for president, and even when he ran for president a time or two and failed.
Kenneth Lay
#67. I loved him in a way I doubt I will ever love another man, and I know that because I've hated him more than I've ever hated anyone before. Hate is a product of failed love only when you can't find it in you to let go. And you know what? I fucking hate him because I love him.
Stevie J. Cole
#68. Most people I've talked to are convinced that they're not getting valuable information from news media anymore. I'm not talking about tinfoil-hatters either, these are intelligent people who believe their news media has failed them.
Drew Curtis
#69. Yes, I know, if the American Indians had enforced such a policy none of us pale-faced honkies would be here. But the Indians were foolish, and divided, and failed to keep our WASP ancestors out. They've regretted it ever since.
Edward Abbey
#70. I was a failed actor, but for 25 years, I got to go on stage anyway, and I loved it. I've still got the day job, and the travel bug.
Ken Bruen
#71. We don't really have a song or anything." I pondered that for a second. "I guess we've failed as a couple in that regard."
She scoffed. "If that's our biggest failing, then I think we're doing okay.
Richelle Mead
#72. I could always accept not being the prettiest or the smartest
Because I had the best of friends.
A and A they called us.
But, Anna, somehow, I failed you.
And now I've lost the best part of
Me.
Terri Fields
#73. I'm finding myself really angry over spending and the deficit. I'm finding myself really angry over what's happening in the Middle East, the decision to stay in Afghanistan indefinitely. I'm angry about cap and trade. And I've been on record for a long time on the failed war on drugs.
Gary Johnson
#74. I can't help thinking the failed New York bomber would've done far more damage if he'd simply driven throught Times Square in a Toyota.
Frankie Boyle
#75. I'm just going to say it: I'm pro-guilt. Guilt is good. Guilt helps us stay on track because it's about our behavior. It occurs when we compare something we've done - or failed to do - with our personal values.
Brene Brown
#76. Elsewhere I've written that Jesus came not only for those who skip morning meditations, but also for real sinners, thieves, adulterers, and terrorists, for those caught up in squalid choices and failed dreams. I HAVE COME TO CALL NOT THE SELF-RIGHTEOUS, BUT SINNERS. (MATT. 9:13)
Brennan Manning
#77. When I've had a meltdown, people will say to me, "Well, you failed to keep your sense of humor."
Lily Tomlin
#78. I haven't failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that don't work.
Thomas Jefferson
#79. If someone has failed, that is not a deficiency for me. I think that he has more motivation. I've seen many examples where someone was successful first and failed later and failed first and then succeeded. If they failed in an honest way, I don't see it as a deficiency.
Yossi Vardi
#80. I'm not in this business to win a popularity contest, I just want to be a good actor. Well, you've failed at being a good actor. Why not try for the popularity contest?
Roger Moore
#81. You know what I've never done at a sporting event? Boo. I don't get the whole idea of booing. You're booing someone because they just failed at something? Seriously? Do you know how hard it is to do what they're doing? That they're among the best in the world at what they do?
Stuart Scott
#82. There have been so many times we've failed at this, August. I can't bear to go through another round of up and down with you.
J.L. Berg
#83. I've been married for 49 years. Where have I failed?
Henny Youngman
#84. For some reason, I've been thinking more and more about my mother and the way her life failed her, humiliated her with impulses beyond her command, broke her with year after year of the same.
Mark Z. Danielewski
#85. I've often thought if I didn't make my marriage work, I would have failed at my one true shot at happiness.
Bethenny Frankel
#86. In not a single one of these little campaigns was I victorious. In other words, in each case, I personally failed, but I have lived to see the thesis upon which I was operating vindicated. And what I very often say is that I've lived to see my lost causes found.
Pauli Murray
#87. I'm going to have setbacks and failures; I'm not going to see change right away all of the time or most of the time. But everybody I've ever respected has failed at one thing or another. I've definitely fallen on my face. But I've also had a comparatively easy life.
Cory Booker
#88. I can always see ways to improve what I've done. At the same time, knowing it's all an ongoing life's work allows me to be less precious about blind alleys, failed experiments, and misfires.
Grant Morrison
#89. You've got to have a sense of different audiences. I'm a kind of performer manque - I come from a long line of failed actors!
Terry Eagleton
#90. 'You've got a smart mouth, boy. And you swear too much. I should do what your mama failed to do and soap out your filthy mouth.'
Unwilling to hide the smirk, Jamie flashed it unrepentantly. 'Shit, your organic-oatmeal-and-mint soap probably tastes better than your cookies. Bring it on.'
Finn Marlowe
#91. I have the kind of personality that I always look ahead than look at what's happened. It does help a lot, especially when you've done badly or you've failed. It's instinctive of me that I look at what's next, I look ahead a lot, and start preparing for that, in victory and in defeat.
Rahul Dravid
#92. 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
#93. I have never failed, I've only shown the way I did it before doesn't work.
Thomas A. Edison
#94. 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
#95. Excuse me, but I've been to some of the toughest zones in the galaxy to get my targets. And I have never once gone after a target and failed. Ever. (Shahara)
Yeah, but you've never been chased before. It's a lot harder to be the prey than it is to be the predator. (Syn)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#96. I can't tell you how many reshoots I've done from, you know, famous photographers who really love just to shoot models and failed at shooting a Patti Labelle or someone like that because Patti Labelle didn't turn them on, so you have to shoot what you care about.
Carol Friedman
#97. I don't like [the pressure] that people put on me, on women-that you've failed yourself as a female because you haven't procreated. This continually is said about me: that I was so career-driven and focused on myself; that I don't want to be a mother, and how selfish that is.
Jennifer Aniston
#98. I've never stayed awake at night over a chance I took that failed, but I've stayed awake over chances I didn't take.
Garth Brooks
#99. I have not failed; I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. -Thomas Edison
I like this attitude ...
Davee Jones
#100. 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
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