Quotes with failed

  • Negro banks, as a rule, have failed because the people, taught that their own pioneers in business cannot function in this sphere, withdrew their deposits.
  • 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.
  • It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature.

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  • James Baldwin Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • William Faulkner All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
    William Faulkner
    American writer (1897 - 1962)
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  • Thomas Love Peacock I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
    Thomas Love Peacock
    English novelist, poet, and official (1785 - 1866)
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  • Georges Clemenceau A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.
    Georges Clemenceau
    French physician and politician (1841 - 1929)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman Against men habituated to lawless force, violent punishment failed to bring the violence under control.
    A Distant Mirror
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Bill Maris 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.
    Bill Maris
    American entrepreneur and venture capitalist
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Critics are those who have failed in literature and art.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Napoleon Hill Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Napoleon Hill Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Samuel Beckett Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
    Samuel Beckett
    Irish dramatist and novelist (1906 - 1989)
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  • Charles Haddon Spurgeon Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend.
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    English Baptist preacher (1834 - 1892)
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  • Graham Greene God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed - that is the meaning of evolution.
    Graham Greene
    English writer (1904 - 1991)
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  • Arnold Bennett Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.
    Arnold Bennett
    British novelist (1867 - 1931)
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  • James Baldwin Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Herman Melville He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
    Herman Melville
    American author (1819 - 1891)
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  • William James He who refuses to embrace an unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Al Neuharth I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down.
    Al Neuharth
    American businessman, author, and columnist
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  • Bruce Eric Kaplan I started trying to be a writer and failed for years. I tried novels, short stories, sitcoms, movies, plays, anything. And then, to support myself, I had millions of jobs on the fringes of show business.
    Bruce Eric Kaplan
    American cartoonist
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  • T. S. Eliot I suppose some editors are failed writers; but so are most writers.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Jimmy Carter I think I was identified as a failed president because I wasn't re-elected.
    Jimmy Carter
    American statesman, 39e President (1924 - )
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