Definition of Failure

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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

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
Buddha

Remember that failure is an event, not a person.
Zig Ziglar

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
Zig Ziglar

You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.
Zig Ziglar

The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.
Barack Obama

In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.
Barack Obama

There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
Tony Robbins

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

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 is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiam.
Winston Churchill

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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