Failure
Cessation of supply, or total defect; a failing; deficiency; as, failure of rain; failure of crops.
Omission; nonperformance; as, the failure to keep a promise.
Want of success; the state of having failed.
Decay, or defect from decay; deterioration; as, the failure of memory or of sight.
A becoming insolvent; bankruptcy; suspension of payment; as, failure in business.
A failing; a slight fault.
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Failure Quotations
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
Winston Churchill
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
Buddha
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Abraham Lincoln
Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
Confucius
Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
Oscar Wilde
In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
Bill Cosby
Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.
Benjamin Franklin
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
Tony Robbins
Failure Translations
failure in Italian is colpo fallito, fallimentare, fiasco
failure in Norwegian is fiasko, svikt, falitt
failure in Portuguese is falha
failure in Spanish is fiasco, fracaso
failure in Swedish is fel, misslyckas
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