Top 56 You Didn't Fail Quotes
#1. As long as you gave it your best shot, even if in the opinion of others 'you failed,' you didn't fail.
Al Lewis
#2. 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
#3. You didn't fail. You just opted out. There's a difference.
Sarah Dessen
#4. Look, you didn't fail me. Because you can't fail at the impossible. -Zsadist to Phury
J.R. Ward
#5. Another long silence, then a sigh. "Not in one way," Chaol said. "I bet he would have wanted you to survive
to live. So you didn't fail him, not in that regard
Sarah J. Maas
#6. You didn't fail ... You just didn't use the right method. It's neither hail nor storm ... It's just a stir that precedes the settlement of your destiny. Believe that you will not remain on the ground. Wake up and try again!
Israelmore Ayivor
#7. Refuse to ever use the term 'failure' again about yourself or anyone else. Remind yourself that wehn things didn't go as planned you didn't fail, you only produced a result.
Wayne Dyer
#8. It's interesting - in 'Fail Safe,' as well, they didn't back off. We were raised with kind of this spectrum of that Armageddon and lived under it, so those were probably the films. 'Fail Safe' sort of haunted me.
Gary Ross
#9. Song, songs kept them going and going; They didn't realize the millions of seeds they were sowing. They were singing in marches, even singing in jail. Songs gave them the courage to believe they would not fail.
Pete Seeger
#10. And if I didn't ever start, I couldn't fail.
Marie Sexton
#11. I was desperate not to confront the fact that this really could be it - that "nineteen" didn't matter, that there really was a point at which even young bodies fail. I was not immortal.
Aspen Matis
#12. What is a champion but a guy that didn't quit? ... Life is a continuous experience. You only fail by not learning.
Renzo Gracie
#13. I've heard all my life that 'this is impossible, you can't make' it and 'you're going to fail' but I didn't listen to them and I made it.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#14. If the second marriage really succeeds, the first one didn't really fail.
Mignon McLaughlin
#15. I didn't say try to fail. Try and risk failing. That's how people learn.
Melissa Turner Lee
#16. It's probably not going to lead to anything. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't try. If everyone who thought they might fail didn't even try, where would we be today?
Nicholas Sparks
#17. Don't say you'll try. Say you'll succeed. Trying means you're giving yourself the option to fail. Don't give yourself that option. I didn't and look at me five years sober.
L. H. Cosway
#18. Resolutions: So many will fail; NOT because they didn't set goals, but because they didn't set behaviors.
Steve Maraboli
#19. The major problem of life is learning how to handle the costly interruptions. The door that slams shut, the plan that got sidetracked, the marriage that failed. Or that lovely poem that didn't get written because someone knocked on the door.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#20. I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.
Daniel Day-Lewis
#21. The Supreme Leader's voice was flat. "You have compassion for her." "No - never. Compassion? For an enemy of the Order?" "I perceive the problem," Snoke intoned. "It isn't her strength that is making you fail. It's your weakness." The rebuke hurt, but Ren didn't show it.
Alan Dean Foster
#22. Day didn't fail his Trial. Not even close. In fact, he got the same score I did: 1500 / 1500. I am no longer the Republic's only prodigy with a perfect score.
Marie Lu
#23. I didn't fail ten thousand times.
I successfully eliminated, ten thousand times,
materials and combinations which wouldn't work.
Thomas A. Edison
#24. I do believe Jesus died so we could feel freed up to go after life to the full, so we would feel equpped to take risks and not beat ourselves up when we fail. He didn't die to make our lives look perfect. He died so we could stop feeling as if our lives have to be perfect for them to mean something.
Mandy Steward
#26. Tinker wrote neatly, though his spelling was not good, Ruth's recipes would never fail for confusion between 'add sugar' and 'seethe', but Jane's writing looked like an intoxicated inky spider had staggered across the page on the way to the bar for another drink. Which it really didn't need.
Kerry Greenwood
#27. And in Iraq we tried to implement the same policy that was so successful in Saudi Arabia, but Saddam Hussein didn't buy. When the economic hit men fail in this scenario, the next step is what we call the jackals.
John Perkins
#28. My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail.
Sara Blakely
#29. Perhaps, Mathilde thought, watching flakes fall into dark and the empty street, I've been wrong. Perhaps the mother had watched her daughter fail and fail and didn't move to help out of something unfathomable, something Mathilde struggled to understand, a thing that was like an immense kind of love.
Lauren Groff
#30. Fail Fast: break items into small chunks which allows for more experimentation, leading to more chances for success Fail Forward: learn from what didn't work, but continue toward what will work Fail Better: the best way to increase our amount of learning is to increase our amount of failure
Erik Qualman
#31. I jerked my phone out of my pocket and took a sharp left to follow the bold green line. I didn't fail to notice my walking icon had been replaced with a bicycle. Stupid Google. Doesn't have a "Succubus on Steroids" setting.
J.M. Friedman. Succubus in Seattle (Kindle Locations 1198-1199).
J.R. Thorn
#32. Failed relationships do not mean failure. I didn't fail them and they didn't fail me. It's a loss, but not failure!' she
Kavita Kane
#33. Actually I have something to tell you," he said.
"You solved global warming."
"Dammit, Katy, now whatever I say is going to sound stupid. I'll fail because I didn't solve global warming."
"Fine, work on that next.
Maisey Yates
#35. Back then we gave it our all, we neither lied nor made mistakes, we didn't fail and didn't do anything wrong.
It's just that ... TIME has passed and changed it all.
Yuuki Obata
#36. I didn't fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps.
Thomas A. Edison
#37. I was attending the University of Alberta. I was going to be a high school teacher, like my parents. I failed - no, I didn't fail a class, I just barely passed. I really didn't try. It was Canadian history, through the plays of the time. My God, those were boring plays.
Nathan Fillion
#38. So our reliance on the computers caused the failure of the mission?" asked the expendable.
"The mission didn't fail," said Ram. "It succeeded nineteen times. We're just the exhaust trail.
Orson Scott Card
#39. I didn't know it was possible to be successful as a writer, so I wasn't afraid to fail.
Jamaica Kincaid
#40. Every time I act on a fear, I feel disappointed in myself. I have a lot of fear. If I can quit all fear in my life and all guilt, then I tend to be much, much more living up to my standards. I've never seen a person fail if they didn't fear failure.
Sebastian Thrun
#41. Most start-up companies fail and it is smart public policy to help entrepreneurs increase their odds of succeeding. But, the biggest loss to our economy is not all the start-ups that didn't make it: It's the ones that might have been created but weren't.
Eric Ries
#42. He threw in the towel before we were tested. Maybe because he didn't want to be tested. Maybe because he assumed we would fail. Maybe because, at the time, he just didn't love me enough.
Emily Giffin
#43. I was afraid I'd fail. So I didn't work.' And there it was, plain as a glass of water, the truth, which he had never admitted to himself.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#44. I didn't go to Harvard or Princeton, but I can count - the defunding box canyon is a tactic that will fail and weaken our position,
Bob Corker
#45. I wouldn't be where I am now if I didn't fail ... a lot. The good, the bad, it's all part of the success equation.
Mark Cuban
#46. Are the computers going to fail? one of the artists asked him, licking ketchup off her thumb. She asked it like she was hoping he'd say yes. Lincoln couldn't remember her name, but she had all-over-the-place hair and big brown eyes. He didn't like thinking about her with an X-Acto knife.
Rainbow Rowell
#47. When people call something a 'fail,' it's because you tried to accomplish something but didn't make it. If you're just walking down the street and something bad just happens to you, that's not really a fail on your part. You might call that situation a fail.
Ben Huh
#48. I think being young in a grownup world, I think it stunted me a little bit. I had to grow up too fast on the outside, but I didn't get to grow up on the inside in the way that you might if you're allowed to fail more.
Laura Benanti
#49. At least, for once I was there for her. I didn't fail her. She wasn't alone. - Duke
Stephanie Witter
#51. Why didn't my father get to give Mom the fairy tale? Why do most people fail to give each other the fairy tale?
Matthew Quick
#52. Courage allows the successful woman to fail - and to learn powerful lessons from the failure - so that in the end, she didn't fail at all.
Maya Angelou
#53. I don't hate children. My wife and I just didn't think we would be good parents, and also by the time we got married in 1968, we were pretty nose-down toward what we wanted to do, and having a child was going to be an excuse to fail.
Richard Ford
#54. I have fallen,
for your words.
They are like,
a gossamer cobweb,
I have been,
embroiled,
decoyed,
snared into!
Incapacitated.
I fail to escape.
I fail to liberate.
Your words,
didn't redeem,
made me a,
captive instead.
Jasleen Kaur Gumber
#55. I was a total fail next to Ash, but Daemon said something about me wearing his clothes that sent blood rushing to every part of my body and I didn't care if I looked like a hunchback next to her.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#56. I feel like a hostage to fortune. Not that I am complaining. I wanted to play the role. But in truth I didn't think the show would be such a success. OK, I thought it would fail. Not because it was bad. I was confident it was good, but plenty of good things just sort of wither on the vine.
Hugh Laurie
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