My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.- Abraham Lincoln
One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
Failure is always an option.
Our failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq thus far has been deeply troubling, and our intelligence-gathering process needs thorough and unbiased investigation.
The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they do not give a damn.
It has always felt like a failure that Bjorn and I couldn't keep our family together. You never get it back, but to this day I do not regret splitting up. The reason behind our separation is one of those things I definitely do not want to go into!
The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more.
The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan.
I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.
We go there with confidence, but we know there is a very fine line between success and failure in this game.
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.
At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.
This attempt to isolate cell constituents might have been a failure if they had been destroyed by the relative brutality of the technique employed. But this did not happen.
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.
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