Top 500 Failed Quotes

Every successful career I’ve ever known was filled with long periods of meandering, months or even years when no one knew what would happen next. Look at me: I started as a geology major turned failed realtor.

The most influential utopian idea of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries was socialism, which has failed everywhere. Under the banner of socialism, Stalin’s U.S.S.R. and Mao’s China gave us not utopias but ghastly anti-utopias.

I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.

I did not like prizes at school. I didn’t like tests or exams, or the 11+, or O-levels. Later I hated B.A.s and M.A.s. The reason I hated them is that I don’t like being tested, failed or falsely praised by anyone.

The last five – six presidents of Haiti have failed miserably. And I don’t think it would be an honor for me to say I want to be the next ‘president.’ I want to be the man by with whom change arrives.

Some people are trying to create hatred among Hindus, Muslims, Christians, and Parsis by following the divide and rule trick adopted by British rulers, but they have been failed miserably.

There’s an examination for young people to go to university. I failed it three times. I failed a lot. So I applied to 30 different jobs and got rejected. I went for a job with the police; they said, ‘You’re no good.’ I even went to KFC when it came to my city. Twenty-four people went for the job. Twenty-three were accepted.

Lots of men have failed as presidents, as Trump surely will, but few fail so dismally as role models. He’s a boy’s idea of a man. He’s a man’s idea of a boy.

The Kosovars were granted autonomy at the end of World War II, but then aspiring president Milosevic had the autonomy revoked in 1989, and the Dayton Accords of 1995, which ended the recent war in Bosnia and Croatia, failed to address the issue of Kosovo’s status.

In my head, if I don’t get a shot at Chelsea, personally, I think I will have failed.

Shoot The Piano Player’ is one of my favourite films, though apparently it failed very badly when it released.

From the beginning of time, we’ve had financial crises. People always blame the banks and for good reason. When you look for the root causes, they’re almost always failed government policies.

I’m not going to defend Sen. Udall’s failed record.

So a failed movie is not going to ruin my career.

Refugees are the human dimensions of a failed state.

We have a failed state in Syria.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

Policy and business elites did not speak frankly about the unequal distribution of benefits from trade and failed to adequately accompany market-opening with good domestic policies to equip displaced workers to upskill, adjust, and share in the new opportunities being created.

I decided to put my money where my mouth was and make films that I believe in. So even if I failed, I failed on my terms.

The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

I had done one failed pilot. I remember, when it failed, I was like, ‘Oh my God, how does someone survive this? That’s it – that’s the end of my career; it’s over.’

I’ve been in many bands and every time I try to be a character that’s not me it has failed miserably.

Most lawsuits against the EPA historically have come either because of the agency’s lack of regard for a statute or because the EPA failed in an obligation or deadline.

We need leadership. We don’t need a doubling down on the failed politics of the past.

I’ve always been worried about Justin Trudeau’s attitude towards trade. We saw during the softwood lumber negotiations that he failed to get an extension while President Obama was still in office.

For a long time, rich countries have promised to reduce poverty but have failed to match their words with adequate action. Of course, some important progress has been made and millions of lives have been saved, but millions more could be saved.

Unlike the Reagan and Bush Administrations, with but one exception, the Clinton administration failed to reach out to Republicans in creating a new team, and eventually paid a political price.

Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

I did try to write in Iraq, and I failed. I think you just don’t have the brain space for it.

Lyndon Johnson, his 44-state landslide in 1964 and Great Society notwithstanding, was by 1968 a failed president being repudiated in the primaries of his own party.

High school was interesting. For a lot of people, high school was just a big social experiment, and I think the value of high school was not so much learning how to be a great student… but I think it’s learning how to interact with people and be social. I would say that in that endeavor, I completely failed.

I often feel failed by feminism.

When you’re buying a pair of TOMS, if you don’t feel like you’re part of a community, then I’ve failed.

Mission accomplished? The mission in Iraq, as laid out by President Bush and Vice President Cheney, has failed.

Medicaid is one of the most failed forms of health care.

The Democrats take the black vote for granted so they don’t have to appeal to anything… I haven’t heard Mrs. Clinton talk about the urban pathologies in the American ghetto that are the result of progressive urban policies – failed policies.

I was failed in all other aspects of filmmaking and was completely bankrupt because my dreams were higher than realities. So I started my acting school in a small room with 12 students to prepare future actors and actresses.

The biggest memory I have is the 1984 European Cup final against Roma and my ‘spaghetti legs’ routine during the penalty shoot-out that won us the trophy. People said I was being disrespectful to their players, but I was just testing their concentration under pressure. I guess they failed that test.

Back in the late 1990s, venture capitalists got very excited about the Internet. A whole lot of money was poured into some companies that failed rather spectacularly, and a lot of people lost a lot of money.

If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.

If a community water system is forced to conduct a chlorine burn because they are experiencing nitrification, it is because they have failed… It is a remedial action to correct a serious problem they themselves have created because they are cheating on the regulations.

I love to try the local food wherever I am. But I’m not that adventurous when it comes to eating. I prefer to be safe. I have failed at eating some daring food.

I still see the world as a place of bitter irony and black humour, failed hopes, dashed plans. I hope to make my work sparer, to outgrow my desire to show off.

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.

I never had much interest in being a child. As a way of being it seemed flat, failed to engage.

When you project weakness throughout the world, and you have a failed foreign policy, this is what you get. And now we have chaos in the Middle East, have ISIS taking over Iraq, Syria, Northern Africa, Egypt.

Mary’s life was a perfect imitation of Jesus. She was humble, hidden, sorrowful and afflicted, but she also knew joys that never entered the heart of man. She is all things to all men that she might understand their failings, though she failed not.

We do need to get to the bottom of what Russia did and their interference in the election. And we need to also figure out how the Obama administration failed so miserably to allow Russia to have this type of impact in our country.

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.

Bangkok is infamously mired in lurid contradiction, but it’s also a city of subtle and distorted moods that journalism and film have hitherto mostly failed to capture.

I personally feel I will have failed if I do not make progress toward making us the most inclusive and diverse workforce in the U.S.

Our poems will have failed if our readers are not brought by them beyond the poems.

I’m about growth for myself. So if I’ve made a lot of mistakes, and I haven’t learnt from them, then I’ve failed as a human being.

A basic truth that the history of the creation of the transistor reveals is that the foundations of transistor electronics were created by making errors and following hunches that failed to give what was expected.

Liberal progressivism evolved after our Constitution. It has repeatedly failed all over the world so why do we think it could be successful here in the United States of America?