Isana felt her throat tighten.
"We failed." Serai lifted her chin and patted Isana's arm firmly.
"We have not yet succeeded. There is a difference.
The more I try to be perfect; the more I fail.
Harley KingTags: failure perfection unrealistic
[T]he concern of man is not his future but his present, not the world but his soul. We must be just, we must strive, we must engage ourselves with the business of the world for our own sake, because through that, and through contemplation in equal measure, our soul is purified and brought closer to the divine. ... Thought and deed conjoined are crucial. ... The attempt must be made; the outcome is irrelevant. Right action is a pale material reflection of the divine, but reflection it is, nonetheless. Define your goal and exert reason to accomplish it by virtuous action; successs or failure is secondary.
Iain PearsTags: goals success future present philosophy mankind thought action failure souls deeds divinity purification
Criminal justice" is what happens after a complicated series of events has gone bad. It is the end result of failure--the failure of a group of people that sometimes includes, but is never limited to, the accused person.
Paul ButlerTags: society failure fairness criminal-justice collective-responsibility
When I thought about why I was sometimes reluctant to push myself, I realized that it was because I was afraid of failure - but in order to have more success, I needed to be willing to accept more failure.
Gretchen RubinTags: failure
When I have tried and failed, I shall have failed.
SophoclesTags: persistence perseverance failure effort
Just because you fail once doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything.
Marilyn MonroeTags: courage marilyn-monroe perseverance failure
Strength and success - they are above morality, above criticism. It seems, then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it and what you call it. Is there a check in men, deep in them, that stops or punishes? There doesn't seem to be. The only punishment is for failure. In effect no crime is committed unless a criminal is caught.
John SteinbeckTags: strength success morality punishment failure crime john-steinbeck the-winter-of-our-discontent
If the Gospels were truly the pattern of God’s activity, then defeat was only the beginning.
Corrie ten BoomTags: failure
The library is full of stories of supposed triumphs which makes me very suspicious of it. It's misleading for people to read about great successes, since even for middle-class and upper-class white people, in my experience, failure is the norm
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