By virtually any measure, the record of the Republican Majority is an appalling failure.
Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply.
We go there with confidence, but we know there is a very fine line between success and failure in this game.
They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.
A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
Success and failure are equally disastrous.
Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
As might be supposed, my parents were quite poor, but we somehow never seemed to lack anything we needed, and I never saw a trace of discontent or a failure in cheerfulness over their lot in life, as indeed over anything.
The difference between a beautifully made failure and a beautifully made hit is who you've got playing the leads.
Switching languages is a form of conversion. And like all conversions, whether it's judged a failure or a success, it excites the desire to leave, go elsewhere, adopt a new language and start all over again. It also means that a conscious effort is demanded to remain still.
The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.
I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
Like prospecting in the 19th century, reconnaissance of the asteroids would of necessity take place in an arena where trouble is likely and help is distant. Heroic stories of individual triumph and failure, set on landscapes never seen by humankind, are in the cards.
The more control you have over your life, the more responsible you feel for your own success - or failure.
There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.
The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.
The probability of failure doesn't matter to me.
We're born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure.
I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course. My attitude to failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. It is liberating. Most people attach failure to something not working out or how people perceive you. This way, it is about answering to yourself.
No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man's front embraces the whole universe.
Why do we capital-N Nerds love Mars so much? Because it's beautiful, it's tough, it's buried in our mythic, childhood memories. It's covered with human triumphs but also with sad stories of failure.
I wish I had been more prepared, both for success and for failure, when I was younger.
Washington, D.C. is what is broken, not the immigration policies. We have good laws. We have people suffer every day because of government's failure to enforce the law and be respectful to the process we have. We have a pathway to citizenship already in place.
I simply don't believe in failure. In itself, it doesn't exist. We create it. We make ourselves fail.
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure.
All I can do will only ever be a faint image of what I see and my success will always be less than my failure or perhaps equal to the failure.
Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.
The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
As a younger player, you always kind of play with that fear of failure.
It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.
My whole career this is the biggest failure financially, but at the same time, it's one of my favorite things I've ever done.
