#failure

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best. ↗

— George Eliot

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That's the conundrum of cartoon stripping, as opposed to political cartoons. When your anger is the driving force of your drawing hand, failure follows. The anger is OK, but it has to serve the interests of the heart, frankly. ↗

— Berkeley Breathed

#cartoon #cartoons #drawing #driving #driving force

Jobs for every American is doomed to failure because of modern automation and production. We ought to recognize it and create an income-maintenance system so every single American has the dignity and the wherewithal for shelter, basic food, and medical care. I'm talking about welfare for all. Without it, you're going to have warfare for all. ↗

— Jerry Brown

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The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed. ↗

— Nigel Farage

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There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is, not to be true to the best one knows. ↗

— Frederic William Farrar

#best #failure #knows #life #only

We feel a lot of pressure about looking silly or appearing weak, whatever that means, or being a failure. You have to keep in your head: what's the worst that can happen? ↗

— Michael Fassbender

#appearing #being #failure #feel #happen

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes. ↗

— Amos Bronson Alcott

#climb #failures #finding #heaven #most

For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour. ↗

— Mary Kay Ash

#alternative #come #course #detour #every

To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

#adjustment #difficult #failure #harmonize #important

I have never described the time I was in Doctor Who as anything except a kind of ecstatic success, but all the rest has been rather a muddle and a disappointment. Compared to Doctor Who, it has been an outrageous failure really - it's so boring. ↗

— Tom Baker

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