#failure

Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#apparent failure #dazzling #failure #islam #mohammed

The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society. ↗

— Paddy Ashdown

#civil #civil society #created #failure #greatest

A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#evolved #failures #into #process #ratio

Failure is a part of success. ↗

— Hank Aaron

#part #success

Why do we capital-N Nerds love Mars so much? Because it's beautiful, it's tough, it's buried in our mythic, childhood memories. It's covered with human triumphs but also with sad stories of failure. ↗

— Greg Bear

#beautiful #because #buried #childhood #childhood memories

Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure. ↗

— Xavier Becerra

#deterioration #disease #end #end result #experience

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#bear #being #certain #convinced #doubts

My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

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Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street. ↗

— Zig Ziglar

#dead-end street #detour #failure #street

It really is impossible not to like him. His success was his failure. ↗

— Arthur C. Danto

#him #his #impossible #like #really