70 Flunk Quotes

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Famous Flunk Quotes

You may flunk your exams in school and still make it in life, but if you flunk life's exams, you're sunk! — Chris Oyakhilome

You can get all A's and still flunk life. — Walker Percy

You gotta fail for the most part to learn. — MrBeast

One fails forward toward success. — Charles Kettering

You're going to fail a few times, because that is the only time you actually learn something. — Hans Zimmer

Failure is inevitable. Success is elusive. — Steven Spielberg

Nobody likes to fail but failure is an essential part of life and of learning. If your uniform isn't dirty, you haven't been in the game. — Ben Bernanke

You fail, and then what? Life goes on. It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. — Lupita Nyong'o

If you haven't had a major fail in your career - face-plant level - you aren't trying hard enough. — Sallie Krawcheck

Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better. — Samuel Beckett

Failure means you've now learned another valuable lesson that pushes you one step closer to success. — Steve Harvey

Failure teaches you a lot more than success. — Smriti Mandhana

If at first you don't succeed... so much for skydiving. - Henny Youngman

If at first you don't succeed... so much for skydiving. — Henny Youngman

It's okay to fail; it's not okay to quit. — Chris Gardner

You can meet a young person who goes to school and is really enthusiastic, but if a sufficiently strong personality convinces them that this is a waste of time, that person might flunk out. — Stanley Crouch

Short Flunk Quotes

  • I can't understand why I flunked American history. When I was a kid there was so little of it. — George Burns
  • If the Aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it. — Stanley Marion Garn
  • Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy. — Erma Bombeck
  • My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus. — Elizabeth Moon
  • Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus. — Elizabeth Moon
  • The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that. — Robert M. Pirsig
  • If the aborigine drafted an IQ test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it. — Stanley Garn
  • Anybody who believes that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach flunked geography. — Robert Byrne
  • That's correct, I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn't write. — Robert Kiyosaki
  • We are a nation of children letting horrible things happen, and flunking Calc. — Daniel Handler

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More Flunk Quotes

Dating is so insecure. My last relationship, I was always there for her and she dumped me. I told her about it. I said, "Remember when your grandma died? I was there. Remember when you flunked out of school? I was there. Remember when you lost your job? I was there!" She said, "I know — Tom Arnold

And I know this happens because I took economics, and I'd explain it to ya, but I flunked that course. Not my fault. They taught it at 8 o'clock in the morning. And there is absolutely nothing you can learn out of one bloodshot eye. — Lewis Black

But Friedman seemed to share Friedrich Hayek's extreme and inaccurate view that socialism of the sort that Britain embraced under the old Labour Party was incompatible with democracy, and I don't think that there is a good theoretical or empirical basis for that view. The Road to Serfdom flunks the test of accuracy of prediction! — Richard Posner

I don't have any problem understanding why people flunk out of college or quit their jobs or cheat on each other or break the law or spray-paint walls. A little bit outside of things is where some people feel each other. We do it to replace the frame of family. We do it to erase and remake our origins in their own images. To say, I too was here. — Lidia Yuknavitch

I flunked my exam for university two times before I was accepted by what was considered my city's worst university, Hangzhou Teachers University. I was studying to be a high school English teacher. In my university, I was elected student chairman and later became chairman of the city's Students Federation. — Jack Ma

I didn't only have a perceptual problem, I was also so nervous and so upset. The process just didn't work. I lost enthusiasm for school and I flunked second grade. The teachers said I was lazy. — Bruce Jenner

Today, if someone showed me a five-year plan, I'd toss out the pages detailing Years Three, Four and Five as pure fantasy Anyone who thinks he or she can evaluate business conditions five years from now, flunks. — Mark Mccormack

College had little effect on me. I'd have been the same writer if I'd gone to MIT, except I'd have flunked out sooner. — Robert B. Parker

When I was 7, I wanted to be a jockey. My father told me women weren't allowed. I couldn't believe it. I was perfectly willing to fail on my own merits, but to be flunked at birth? — Mavis Leno

For survivors, the word closure often connotes that the bereaved are underachievers who flunked a grief course. — Earl A Grollman

So when I told my parents I wanted to go into acting because I was flunking out of my first year of junior college, they were relieved that I had picked something other than joining the army. But I can't imagine how they had high hopes for me. — Dustin Hoffman

And I flunked anger management the moment I put the counselor through a stone wall. You might want to keep that in mind. [Thorn] — Sherrilyn Kenyon

If you are a student you should always get a good nights sleep unless you have come to the good part of your book, and then you should stay up all night and let your schoolwork fall by the wayside, a phrase which means 'flunk'. — Daniel Handler

One thing about the school of experience is that it will repeat the lesson if you flunk the first time. — Unknown

I think that everybody, even if they had the best high school experience, there was something about high school. Whether you dropped a pass, or whether you flunked the test, or you didn't go to the prom. — Neal H. Moritz

One of the reporters must have flunked journalism school because he asked a question that went straight to the point. — Sayings

I was seventeen and the star of my high school play. I was supposed to kiss my leading man, but I couldn't stand the guy. I really didn't want to kiss him. All during rehearsals, I refused to kiss him. Then my drama teacher told me, "If you don't kiss him on opening night, you'll flunk drama class. So I kissed him, and that was my first kiss. — Donna Mills

Everything you want is cheap or free. If you went to a venture capitalist and said: "I need money to buy tools." You flunked the IQ test, I mean every tool that you need is free! — Guy Kawasaki

Hang in there. Hang in there because the greatest quarterbacks complete only six of 10 passes. The best basketball players make only 50% of their shots. The top oil companies, with all their geologists, drill 10 dry holes for every wet one. And even the most successful actors flunk 29 auditions for television commercials before they land one. So, HANG IN THERE. — Anonymous

I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them. — Frank Sinatra

I've had all six of my books reach the New York Times bestseller list, which is especially rewarding seeing as I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn't write. It just goes to show you that we learn from our mistakes. — Robert Kiyosaki

I didn't go to college. I got tired of it. I didn't want to take ballroom dance taught by a former drill sergeant in the WACs. I didn't like flunking speech, me, flunking speech. But I realized sometime later, okay, I don't have a piece of paper that says I've been educated, so I'm gonna have to be able to demonstrate that I'm educated. So I began self-teaching. It was all related to desire. — Rush Limbaugh

Our understanding of what constitutes intelligence is utterly relative. If an aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, for example, all of Western civilization would probably flunk. We have a very convenient and self-serving way of defining intelligence. If an animal does something, we call it instinct. If we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence. — John Robbins

So I was doing well academically, and I was a well-ranked tennis player and was the apple of my handsome father's eye-and then I would bring home a report card with a B-plus on it, and my parents would look at the report card as if I'd flunked. "Uh, honey?" one of them would ask, looking perplexed. "Now, this isn't a criticism but, if you could get a B-plus in philosophy, how much harder would it have been to get an A-minus?" — Anne Lamott

The stock market goes nuts over any company that so much as mentions the word Internet. All this proves to me is that the boneheads on Wall Street are as dumb as they were in college when they had to switch their majors to business to keep from flunking out. — John C. Dvorak

If I taught a class, on my final exam I would take an Internet company and ask, 'How much is this company worth?' Anyone who would answer, I would flunk. — Warren Buffett

I'm an idiot, basically. I don't think that I'm a dumb guy, but I also realise that I have access to about 0.1 percent of the information that I need to have a truly informed opinion about half the stuff I talk about. I'm like that loud guy in the bar, who kind of makes sense for about ten minutes, and then you realise he flunked everything at high school so you just laugh at him. — Bill Burr

Fatal illness has always been viewed as a test of moral character, but in the nineteenth century there is a great reluctance to let anybody flunk the test. — Susan Sontag

How you treat the helpless is the real test of morality. Lots of people are flunking that test big time. — Thomas Sowell

Nobody ever flunked a science museum — Frank Oppenheimer

Boys like Peter are afraid of alot of things, like nuclear annihilation and flunking algebra, but they're not afraid of wolves. — Al Yankovic

The Arab peoples possess an ancient and highly developed civilization that is in many ways more sophisticated than our own. For instance, they invented algebra. And this is why we have to go to war with Saddam Hussein this minute and bomb the shish kebab out of him before he invents trig and chemistry and the whole of America flunks high school. — P. J. O'Rourke

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