#failure

For families across the UK who are income-poor, but more than that, whose lives are blighted by worklessness, educational failure, family breakdown, problem debt and poor health, as well as other problems, giving them an extra pound - say through increased benefits - will not address the reason they find themselves in difficulty in the first place. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#address #benefits #breakdown #debt #difficulty

The future of Conservatism lies in our beliefs and values, not by throwing them away. We need to shed associations that bind us to past failures, but hold faith with those things that make us Conservatives. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#away #beliefs #bind #conservatism #conservatives

Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man. ↗

— William Howard Taft

#any #anyone #credit #done #failure

Most of the work performed by a development engineer results in failure. ↗

— Koichi Tanaka

#engineer #failure #most #performed #results

It's probably foolish to expect relationships to go on forever and to say that because something only lasts 10 years, it's a failure. ↗

— James Taylor

#expect #failure #foolish #forever #go

The moral turpitude of the boys of today appears to center in their failure to concentrate on any particular objective long enough to obtain their maximum results. ↗

— Major Taylor

#appears #center #concentrate #enough #failure

Well, I think first of all there was a failure to have real, clear information at our disposal. There was a real lack of situational awareness. We didn't have the capabilities on the ground to give us real-time, accurate assessments of the physical condition of the city. ↗

— Michael Chertoff

#assessments #awareness #capabilities #city #clear

I met Ashley two weeks before I married him. It was a joke-the most ridiculous thing I've ever done. Once I was married, I didn't want to be a failure, so I stuck it out for six months, which was about six months too long. ↗

— Shannen Doherty

#ashley #before #done #ever #failure

Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success. ↗

— Edward Dowden

#failure #faithfully #noble #serves #sometimes

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#failures #finger #posts #road