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So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.

A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War.

Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.

Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.

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.

The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan.

One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us.

You can not be afraid of failure and you can not be afraid of success, because either one gets in the way of your work.

So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman.

We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States.

I think that failure by your own standards is certainly a form of success.

Before this government came to power, many failing schools were simply allowed to drift on in a pattern of continuing failure. The government is determined to break that pattern and is successfully doing so.

I saw why people died and how they died. I saw gunshot wounds and liver failure. It was a good learning experience, so I came regularly on weekends and holidays.

The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more.

My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative.

I have had great success and I have had catastrophic failure. It is really how you handle the rough stuff that defines you, I think.

Failure to properly control our borders costs citizens in many ways: schools become overcrowded, medical resources are stretched too thin, other government services are overtaxed, and taxes increase further.

Failure and things of this sort - you can take it one of two ways. You can either let that hurt you and really affect the way that you live your life in the future, or you can use that as an opportunity for growth.

What we have most to fear is failure of the heart.

Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure.