#failed

Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive. ↗

— Scott Adams

#because #becoming #cartoonist #executive #failed

The first thing that I really understood politically and was old enough to get was the failed assassination attempt on Reagan. ↗

— Ben Affleck

#attempt #enough #failed #first #first thing

I failed to make the chess team because of my height. ↗

— Woody Allen

#because #chess #failed #height #i

Almost every dot-com idea from 1999 that failed will succeed. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#dot-com #every #failed #idea #succeed

I think I may have failed at a lot of things, but the one thing I can say, and that I'm proud of, is that I am a good parent. ↗

— Naveen Andrews

#failed #good #good parent #i #i am

So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair. ↗

— Antonin Artaud

#causes #cleanse #despair #eliminate #failed

I went to dance classes from 9 in the morning until 1, then to school from 3 to 10 at night, always under the threat that if I failed a single course I could forget about dancing. ↗

— Victoria Abril

#always #classes #could #course #dance

At this high moment, ability failed my capacity to describe. ↗

— Dante Alighieri

#capacity #describe #failed #high #moment

The committee discloses that even after the U.S. government learned of the diversion of U.S. designs for nuclear warheads in late 1995, the Clinton Administration failed to take steps immediately to improve security. ↗

— Charles Foster Bass

#after #clinton #clinton administration #committee #designs

Few expected very much of Franklin Roosevelt on Inauguration Day in 1933. Like Barack Obama seventy-six years later, he was succeeding a failed Republican president, and Americans had voted for change. What that change might be Roosevelt never clearly said, probably because he himself didn't know. ↗

— Russell Baker

#barack obama #because #change #clearly #day