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Fail Quotes


"A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame"

Full 'John Burroughs' Quote   Source: John Burroughs
"A man may fail many times but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame"

Full 'J Paul Getty' Quote   Source: J Paul Getty
"prisoner-of-war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you"

Full 'Winston Churchill' Quote   Source: Winston Churchill
"All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the..."

Full 'William Faulkner' Quote   Source: William Faulkner
"All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the..."

Full 'William Faulkner' Quote   Source: William Faulkner
"Although one may fail to find happiness in theatrical life, one never..."

Full 'Anna Pavlova' Quote   Source: Anna Pavlova
"of the people has never been known to fail in the long run."

Full 'James Russell Lowell' Quote   Source: James Russell Lowell
"An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats..."

Full 'Charles Kettering' Quote   Source: Charles Kettering
"Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one..."

Full 'Paul Tillich' Quote   Source: Paul Tillich
"Because a fellow has failed once or twice, or a dozen times, you don't want..."

Full 'George Lorimer' Quote   Source: George Lorimer
"make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't..."

Full 'Clare Booth Luce' Quote   Source: Clare Booth Luce
"Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail."

Full 'Charles Kettering' Quote   Source: Charles Kettering
"Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It..."

Full 'Billy Graham' Quote   Source: Billy Graham
"effort involved in getting there -- or failing to get there...."

Full 'Max Lerner' Quote   Source: Max Lerner
"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better."

Full 'Samuel Beckett' Quote   Source: Samuel Beckett
"Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except..."

Full 'Helen Rowland' Quote   Source: Helen Rowland
"only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and..."

Full 'George Santayana' Quote   Source: George Santayana
"He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails..."

Full 'Paul Tillich' Quote   Source: Paul Tillich
"spend my life regretting the things I failed to do...."

Full 'Liv Ullmann' Quote   Source: Liv Ullmann
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

Full 'Thomas Edison' Quote   Source: Thomas Edison
"I think I fail just a bit less than everyone else."

Full 'Jack Nicklaus' Quote   Source: Jack Nicklaus
"the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying..."

Full 'Stanley Kubrick' Quote   Source: Stanley Kubrick
"I was hopeless at high school - I failed everything but Latin."

Full 'Keanu Reeves' Quote   Source: Keanu Reeves
"If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error."

Full 'John Kenneth Galbraith' Quote   Source: John Kenneth Galbraith
"If we had failed to pursue the facts as far as they led, we would have..."

Full 'Katharine Graham' Quote   Source: Katharine Graham
"If you haven't failed, you haven't tried very hard."

Full 'Shirley Hufstedler' Quote   Source: Shirley Hufstedler
"If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing"

Full 'Woody Allen' Quote   Source: Woody Allen
"it, I get really upset with myself if I fail in the least...."

Full 'Justin Timberlake' Quote   Source: Justin Timberlake
"bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence..."

Full 'Douglas Macarthur' Quote   Source: Douglas Macarthur
"go for it, that's it, man, and if you fail the whole thing is down the..."

Full 'Jack Lemmon' Quote   Source: Jack Lemmon
"not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to"

Full 'Jimmy Carter' Quote   Source: Jimmy Carter
"the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again..."

Full 'Michael Jordan' Quote   Source: Michael Jordan
"People are always saying a marriage 'failed". It's such a negative way..."

Full 'Emma Thompson' Quote   Source: Emma Thompson
"More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent."

Full 'Billy Sunday' Quote   Source: Billy Sunday
"great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content"

Full 'Abraham Lincoln' Quote   Source: Abraham Lincoln
"Nothing fails like success; nothing is so defeated as yesterday's"

Full 'Phyllis Mcginley' Quote   Source: Phyllis Mcginley
"idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed it...."

Full 'Gustav Flaubert' Quote   Source: Gustav Flaubert
"there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes...."

Full 'George Soros' Quote   Source: George Soros
"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."

Full 'Robert Kennedy' Quote   Source: Robert Kennedy
"other hand, disorganization can scarcely fail to result in efficiency...."

Full 'Dwight D Eisenhower' Quote   Source: Dwight D Eisenhower
"is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits."

Full 'Robert Louis Stevenson' Quote   Source: Robert Louis Stevenson
"Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never."

Full 'Theodore Parker' Quote   Source: Theodore Parker
"People fail forward to success."

Full 'Mary Kay Ash' Quote   Source: Mary Kay Ash
"in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions...."

Full 'Martin Luther' Quote   Source: Martin Luther
"Reason may fail you. If you are going to do anything with life, you..."

Full 'Bede Jarrett' Quote   Source: Bede Jarrett
"perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve."

Full 'Stonewall Jackson' Quote   Source: Stonewall Jackson
"talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn..."

Full 'Samuel Taylor Coleridge' Quote   Source: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers."

Full 'T S Eliot' Quote   Source: T S Eliot
"have tried. Just do it, be willing to fail, and at least you gave it a..."

Full 'George Clooney' Quote   Source: George Clooney
"The only people who never fail are those who never try."

Full 'Ilka Chase' Quote   Source: Ilka Chase
"The proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will..."

Full 'William Gilmore Simms' Quote   Source: William Gilmore Simms
"like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping"

Full 'Oprah Winfrey' Quote   Source: Oprah Winfrey
"Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly."

Full 'John F Kennedy' Quote   Source: John F Kennedy
"Three failures denote uncommon strength. A weakling has not enough grit to"

Full 'Mina Thomas Antrim' Quote   Source: Mina Thomas Antrim
"rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports; when we..."

Full 'Charles Caleb Colton' Quote   Source: Charles Caleb Colton
"War is what happens when language fails"

Full 'Margaret Atwood' Quote   Source: Margaret Atwood
"well you cope with failure. I don't like failing too often. It's so public,..."

Full 'Kevin Kline' Quote   Source: Kevin Kline
"When ideas fail, words come in very handy."

Full 'Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe' Quote   Source: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
"When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and..."

Full 'Maria Callas' Quote   Source: Maria Callas
"opportunities and made some big plays, and we failed to do that. We had our..."

Full 'Troy Aikman' Quote   Source: Troy Aikman
"Where words fail, music speaks."

Full 'Hans Christian Anderson' Quote   Source: Hans Christian Anderson
"do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a..."

Full 'Amelia Earhart' Quote   Source: Amelia Earhart
"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try."

Full 'Beverly Sills' Quote   Source: Beverly Sills