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Definition of Failure
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

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
Bill Cosby

I can accept failure, but I can't accept not trying.
Michael Jordan

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Bill Cosby

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

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorius triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt

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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