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I have failed many times, and that's why I am a success.

Michael Jordan

I'm not going to die because I failed as someone else. I'm going to succeed as myself.

Margaret Cho

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

Thomas A. Edison

The battle against the withdrawal has failed.

Uzi Landau

We're unhappy about it. The contractor failed to meet his schedule.

Tim Waters

I made my attempts quitting, but failed.

Lynne Davis

Cartridges were misplaced or lost. Entire precincts are suspect because cartridges failed.

Maureen Murphy

God is not what you imagine or what you think you understand. If you understand you have failed.

St. Augustine

Supporters of the CDU failed to vote because of reservations about Merkel.

Manfred Guellner

Had we sat down and said, 'Let's start a photo application,' we would have failed. We would have done all this research and done all the wrong things.

Caterina Fake

They have failed. Why antagonize them? But they have failed.

Praful Patel

Every time our execution failed, we responded with our defense.

Tayshaun Prince

Democracy has not failed; the intelligence of the race has failed before the problems the race has raised.

Robert Maynard Hutchins

We'll use the f-word. We've failed.

Nancy Powell

We're here because unfortunately judges have failed us in some of these cases.

Mark Green

I eat a lot of carbohydrates, and I did several diets, but all of them failed.

Vittorio Campati

We just failed to execute when we had to.

Doug Banks

That one issue is the only issue. We're delivering a failed product to the university level.

Bryan Flannery

Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.

Gustave Flaubert

Meal ran to theirs (moving averages) but failed, and beans didn't even really get close.

John Kleist

One thing this team has never failed to show is resolve.

Dave Rice

Failed to identify any constitutionally adequate reason for denying civil marriage to same-sex couples.

Daryn Kagan

I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.

Thomas Love Peacock

Socialism failed because it couldn't tell the economic truth; capitalism may fail because it couldn't tell the ecological truth.

Lester Brown

The recall failed. Let's have another recall on (Election Day) May 2.

Rudy Langford

It wasn't that we came in and took over. Their business model failed.

Kathryn Gallagher

I was a failed actor but I still wanted to show off, so I ended up doing live comedy.

Graham Norton

When all else failed, the governor did the right thing.

Charles Wells

All attempts to bring it under control in Southeast Asia have failed.

Dr Shigeru Omi

A test of the downside this morning has failed.

Kentaro Nakajo

In the process of trial and error, Our failed attempts are meant to destroy arrogance and provoke humility.

Master Jin Kwon

If that integration is left to the customer, I think that we have failed the customer.

Rajeev Madhavan

You failed to submit these items. It was not taken care of in appropriate time.

Jim Clement

They either failed to report their income or failed to report their entire income.

Mike Vogel

As a brand extension, Zima Gold failed miserably.

Paul Gatza

There's only two kinds of levees, ... Ones that have failed and those that will fail.

Jane Bullock

If it has failed, it will be a significant hit. It is the contact arm of the mission.

John Callas

Then we failed to execute in the last two minutes. We had a lot of poorly executed possessions.

John Martino

The mayor does seem to have failed, from the outset of this case, to have appreciated that his conduct was unacceptable.

David Laverick

He senses Sudan will soon become a failed state that will be dismantled.

Abdel Bari Atwan

We have had our first post 9/11 test and we have miserably failed.

Tim Roemer

This failed as far as I'm concerned.

Carolyn Mccarthy

Springfield's attempt to eliminate our base totally failed.

Mark Souder

I couldn't believe it failed. This levy is critical for our city.

Chuck O'leary

Gov. Fletcher has failed to uphold his duty to protect Kentucky citizens and enforce the Kentucky constitution.

Christina Gilgor

I failed by a few sit-ups.

Allen Jackson

He failed to meet his obligation ... to be present on time.

Gerald Harris

He was in the school, too, and had failed the exam.

Chuck Allen

Even an 8% current account deficit failed to dent it significantly, which is surprising.

John Cobb

Testing and monitoring of more than 300 close contacts failed to detect any further cases.

Maria Cheng

The threats haven't worked and the U.N. and the Congolese army have failed to get rid of all these armed groups.

Jason Stearns

No one travelling on a business trip would be missed if he failed to arrive.

Thorstein Veblen

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

Samuel Beckett

REBEL, n. A proponent of a new misrule who has failed to establish it.

Ambrose Bierce

If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded.

Lloyd Jones

It failed because it was bad policy.

Rex Frazier

He had ambitions, at one time, to become a sex maniac, but he failed his practical.

Les Dawson

If the idea of the borough was to make the workers disappear, that failed completely. We now have the workers in downtown in many corners.

Mahonrry Hidalgo

We failed. We were victims of the war, and afterward we were waiting for the international community to do the job.

Blerim Shala

The non-settling states have completely failed to prove their case.

Dan K. Webb

We did everything possible to prevent this happening but we have failed miserably.

Koichiro Matsuura

He who has never failed somewhere. . . that man can not be great.

Herman Melville

In Taunton, nine out of 21 establishments did not ask for ID and in Middleboro four out of nine failed to card the buyer.

David Deiuliis

I wasn't driving the ball and failed to keep the ball on the fairway.

Vinod Kumar

It didn't appear to be rotten. We don't know why it failed.

Paul Wirth

It is one of the country's great addresses. If they had failed to bring back the Willard, it would have affected all of Pennsylvania Avenue and all of Washington.

C. Ford Peatross

The administration has failed basic accounting. There is very little in this that is (really) so-called emergency spending.

Jim Manly

It was time for him to prove he was not in the pocket of the Chamber of Commerce and the big corporations, and he failed.

Art Pulaski

Our government, all government, somehow failed in their duty that day. We need to know why.

James Thompson

We may however make a few exceptions, especially for those athletes who failed to turn up at national championships because they were either ill or out of the country.

David Okeyo

We fouled them as much as we could in the fourth quarter. But we failed to convert when they missed them.

Jeff Brink

I think we're going to be great. I don't think we can accept anything less than being great. If we accomplish anything less than that, I think we failed ourselves.

Brandon Meriweather

Americans want change, not more of the same permanent commitment to a failed strategy in Iraq.

Damien Lavera

Thus far our strategy has failed to achieve our political objectives.

Heather Wilson

He'd be in a position where he is trying to represent a client who has failed to follow his directions.

Mark Harrison

You've never failed until you stop trying.

Darius Danesh

You look for a pitch to hit in the outfield and get the run in. I failed to do it, ... That was our chance.

Matthew Lecroy

This is one of the gravest crises Europe has ever experienced... An agreement failed because of the completely stubborn attitudes of the UK and the Netherlands.

Gerhard Schroeder

Stock options have failed abjectly to do what they were ballyhooed to do.

John Bogle

If and when discrimination or harassment occurs, employers must act swiftly to prevent and correct the unlawful conduct -- which TWA failed to do in this case.

Katherine Bissell

Too often the State Department has failed to speak up.

Nina Shea

We're disappointed that it appears we're going down the same road that's already failed.

Ryan Lippe

Every level of accountability has failed. It's really in crisis.

Matt Nelson

We cannot allow our pharmacists to take the hit for this administration's failed plan.

Mark Riley

That it failed to effectively use.

Timothy Edgar

You tried your best and failed miserably. The lesson is: never try.

Homer Simpson

It has never failed us.

Alan Binder

That process is lengthy and difficult and should be used only when other efforts have failed.

Charles Martin

There's nobody here to protect us. It's very disappointing to see people we put our trust in – they failed us.

Ron Ranson

I have always voted every time I could get to the polls. I failed in that regard.

Joel Baker

After Quixote collapsed, there were about four other projects that failed to fly.

The Brothers Grimm

It's not easy to pull off the Big Lie and George Bush has failed.

Robert Scheer

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

Napoleon Hill

When it's all said and done, Dennis Rader has failed in his attempts to kill the Otero family.

Charlie Otero

Republicans and Democrats have failed to connect the Iraq disaster to the unmet critical needs of America.

Dexter Kamilewicz

I have no reason to believe that the test failed.

Mark Brinkmann

She sold to an 18-year-old that we had sent in, ... This was the single one we checked that failed.

Alan Gould

They failed us on that. They can make amends for that.

John Mumma

He could do worse than to go to Delmas to see how his own government has failed its own people in its own backyard.

Tony Leon

We have some schools where 50% to 70% of students failed the exam, ... How denying diplomas to 60% to 70% of students raises standards is beyond me.

Karen Bass

That was the story for us for the night, we didn't execute when we needed. We failed to come through when we really needed. We were our worst enemy.

Johnny Roscoe

I am myself a failed cartoonist, There are a million reasons to ruin things.

Dave Eggers

He has been doing so at regular intervals and has miserably failed every time.

Inayat Bunglawala

We failed to make the routine plays in the field. We choked in that situation.

Denny Mccrotty

We've already failed one challenge. Not so much on the scoreboard, but the way we performed that day.

Kirk Ferentz

I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down.

Allen Neuharth

You will hear about the evidence they failed to investigate.

Trevor Mcfee

If the model is River Gardens, it has failed miserably.

James Perry

It's not that we failed to buy it, ... It's not available unless you live in a flood zone.

Carol Farley

There was a lot of business in the pipeline, but we simply failed to close contracts.

John Joyce

I feel our state failed them.

Donna Roberts

Saddened that this president failed so miserably at diplomacy that we're now forced to war.

Tom Daschle

The war on drugs has been too long and too disgustingly failed and far too destructive.

Jack Cole

There is no evidence of a conspiracy ... the state failed because there is no conspiracy.

Katharine Liell

I don't think the secretary-general wants another failed effort.

Tassos Papadopoulos

If you tried to rob a bank and failed, you got arrested or shot. Online criminals have it much easier.

Joseph Telafici

The only thing Google has failed to do, so far, is fail.

John Battelle

Shame, shame on America. We were put to the test, and we have failed.

Diane Watson

We believe they were knowledgeable, but they failed to get the permits needed.

Chris Parsons

It was very clear the judge was displeased that the commissioners have failed to do their job and get this case settled.

Harlan Miller

The man who tried his best and failed is superior to the man who never tried.

Bud Wilkinson

They have failed to expand capacity to discipline price.

Mark Cooper

We had opportunities to score more than two runs, ... and we failed to get it done.

Mark Kotsay

In case you failed to notice, in case you failed to see, this is my heart, bleeding before you, this is me down on my knees.

Bonnie Jewell

The Iraqis have once again failed to meet a deadline for a final draft of the constitution.

Matt Lauer

The opposition seems to be very disorganized, weak, ... Their attempts to create a pre-revolutionary situation in Azerbaijan failed.

Ilham Aliyev

We've had our first test, and we've failed miserably.

Timothy J. Roemer

The FDA commissioner's job is to absorb and deflect criticism of the agency ... Crawford failed that test.

Ira Loss

We were trying to depend more on technology. Our technology failed.

Mike Haley

She failed to yield to traffic.

Trish Hoffman

Management has failed to give a consistent reason for his absence.

Brent Thill

The sunrise never failed us yet.

Celia Thaxter

The main purpose was to see him and let him know he failed.

Emily Lyons

I felt like I had failed it, like I let it down.

Evan Price

They put on the 3-2 [zone] and we failed to execute the high-low [offense].

Emanuel Charles

He can't mention ethics because he has failed to keep his promises.

Edwin Eisendrath

Their strategy was simply inadequate and it failed.

Zoltan Kiszelly