#failure

We are all failures at least, all the best of us are. ↗

— J. M. Barrie

#failures #least #us

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

— Sidney Hook

#advance #assure #disappoint #doomed #failure

African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population but comprise 32 percent of patients treated for kidney failure, giving them a kidney failure rate that is 4.2 times greater than that of white Americans. ↗

— Xavier Becerra

#african #african americans #comprise #failure #giving

The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one's children has led to a whole library of books offering advice on how to raise them. ↗

— Bruno Bettelheim

#books #children #desire #failure #fear

We decided to try in vitro, because both Peter and I felt we couldn't handle another failure. When I miscarried after that, we had to come to terms with the possibility that this wasn't meant to be. ↗

— Christie Brinkley

#another #because #both #come #decided

At the root of many a woman's failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives. ↗

— Robert Farrar Capon

#cook #develop #failure #great #great cook

Don't come home a failure. ↗

— Ty Cobb

#failure #home

I think he Oswald felt he was a failure and for the United States and for President Kennedy and all of us. He knew he was a failure at everything he tried, frustrated, with a very sad life, but he was a Marxist. ↗

— John Sherman Cooper

#failure #felt #frustrated #i #i think

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure. ↗

— Edward Eggleston

#end #failure #others #people #persistent

America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or, at least, we used to. ↗

— Larry Elder

#america #call #capitalism #consequences #failure