Failure
noun
The state or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective.
The project was a failure because it did not achieve its goals
Often appears as...
- epic failure
- dismal failure
noun
A person who does not succeed.
In his own eyes, he was a failure because he did not live up to his own expectations
Often appears as...
- total failure
- absolute failure
noun
An event that does not accomplish its intended purpose.
The planned concert was a failure due to the bad weather
Often appears as...
- complete failure
- ultimate failure
noun
The inability of a system or machine to perform its function.
The failure of the engine was due to poor maintenance
Often appears as...
- engine failure
- system failure
noun
The state or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective.
The project was a failure because it did not achieve its goals
Often appears as...
- epic failure
- dismal failure
noun
A person who does not succeed.
In his own eyes, he was a failure because he did not live up to his own expectations
Often appears as...
- total failure
- absolute failure
noun
An event that does not accomplish its intended purpose.
The planned concert was a failure due to the bad weather
Often appears as...
- complete failure
- ultimate failure
noun
The inability of a system or machine to perform its function.
The failure of the engine was due to poor maintenance
Often appears as...
- engine failure
- system failure
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
The word often implies disappointment and can be emotionally charged.
Despite their efforts, not reaching the quarterly targets was seen as a failure.
Pro Tip 2/3Failure as Learning
Sometimes used positively in educational or motivational contexts to encourage growth.
Each failure in the experiment brought us closer to the correct hypothesis.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Personal
Can refer to an abstract outcome, not just personal or team efforts.
The failure of the treaty to bring peace was unfortunate.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
The word often implies disappointment and can be emotionally charged.
Despite their efforts, not reaching the quarterly targets was seen as a failure.
Pro Tip 2/3Failure as Learning
Sometimes used positively in educational or motivational contexts to encourage growth.
Each failure in the experiment brought us closer to the correct hypothesis.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Personal
Can refer to an abstract outcome, not just personal or team efforts.
The failure of the treaty to bring peace was unfortunate.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
The word often implies disappointment and can be emotionally charged.
Despite their efforts, not reaching the quarterly targets was seen as a failure.
Pro Tip 2/3Failure as Learning
Sometimes used positively in educational or motivational contexts to encourage growth.
Each failure in the experiment brought us closer to the correct hypothesis.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Personal
Can refer to an abstract outcome, not just personal or team efforts.
The failure of the treaty to bring peace was unfortunate.
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How playing sports...
I can improve myself through practice and achieve it eventually." That mindset is useful in all walks of life. And then there's learning through failure, one of the most transformative, long-term benefits of playing sports. The experience of coming to terms with defeat can build the resilience and self-awareness necessary to manage academic,
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Epic Fails of...
good sense of kind of excitement when people meet failure because of the new opportunities that it presents if you're not willing to fail then then you're not exploring you know you can spend your entire life in front of a television set like a lump of meat with a remote control in your hand and you'll never
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What happens when you...
creating cells that no longer function properly and begin to leak their contents. If these leaky cells proliferate through the body, the results can be devastating. Including liver damage, blood clot formation in the kidneys, damage to the gastrointestinal tract and even the failure of vital organs.
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The real story behind...
To build something of this scale, only for that to sink on its maiden voyage? Well, let's just say that failure wouldn't have been a pleasant option for Archimedes. So he took on the will it sink? Perhaps he was sitting in the bathhouse one day, wondering how a heavy bathtub can float,
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What would you do if...
up until this point you could have plotted the perfectly straight line of my carefully planned life now I was a dot somewhere off the graph what am I going to do with my life I had no answer I framed the divorce as failure I felt ashamed and scared of my uncertain
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The Tipping Point PIPE...
suffer tomorrow if parts of the world become increasingly uninhabitable future climate change could lead to internal displacement and migration crop failures lead to food riots food riots lead to destabilizations of government and we can imagine a kind of
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The power of creative...
could provide a solution for farmers working in drought-stricken regions, or a way to clean municipal water in polluted cities. In fact, many scientific advances have occurred when serendipitous failures in one field address the constraints of another.
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Top 5 Nail-Biting...
attachment to that elephants I follow on the tracking system you know what they're like and you feel that you feel like an actor with a hand side you know Steven hi there very long life it's like some old friend failure I it's not I'll
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Gary Haugen: The hidden...
You know, from the hindsight of history, what's always most inexplicable and inexcusable are the simple failures of compassion. Because I think history convenes a tribunal of our grandchildren
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Bill Gates: The next...
processed it, and put that plasma back in people to protect them. But that was never tried. So there was a lot that was missing. And these things are really a global failure.
Video examples
How playing sports...
I can improve myself through practice and achieve it eventually." That mindset is useful in all walks of life. And then there's learning through failure, one of the most transformative, long-term benefits of playing sports. The experience of coming to terms with defeat can build the resilience and self-awareness necessary to manage academic,
Video examples
Epic Fails of...
good sense of kind of excitement when people meet failure because of the new opportunities that it presents if you're not willing to fail then then you're not exploring you know you can spend your entire life in front of a television set like a lump of meat with a remote control in your hand and you'll never
Video examples
What happens when you...
creating cells that no longer function properly and begin to leak their contents. If these leaky cells proliferate through the body, the results can be devastating. Including liver damage, blood clot formation in the kidneys, damage to the gastrointestinal tract and even the failure of vital organs.
Video examples
The real story behind...
To build something of this scale, only for that to sink on its maiden voyage? Well, let's just say that failure wouldn't have been a pleasant option for Archimedes. So he took on the will it sink? Perhaps he was sitting in the bathhouse one day, wondering how a heavy bathtub can float,
Video examples
What would you do if...
up until this point you could have plotted the perfectly straight line of my carefully planned life now I was a dot somewhere off the graph what am I going to do with my life I had no answer I framed the divorce as failure I felt ashamed and scared of my uncertain
Video examples
The Tipping Point PIPE...
suffer tomorrow if parts of the world become increasingly uninhabitable future climate change could lead to internal displacement and migration crop failures lead to food riots food riots lead to destabilizations of government and we can imagine a kind of
Video examples
The power of creative...
could provide a solution for farmers working in drought-stricken regions, or a way to clean municipal water in polluted cities. In fact, many scientific advances have occurred when serendipitous failures in one field address the constraints of another.
Video examples
Top 5 Nail-Biting...
attachment to that elephants I follow on the tracking system you know what they're like and you feel that you feel like an actor with a hand side you know Steven hi there very long life it's like some old friend failure I it's not I'll
Video examples
Gary Haugen: The hidden...
You know, from the hindsight of history, what's always most inexplicable and inexcusable are the simple failures of compassion. Because I think history convenes a tribunal of our grandchildren
Video examples
Bill Gates: The next...
processed it, and put that plasma back in people to protect them. But that was never tried. So there was a lot that was missing. And these things are really a global failure.
Example 1 of 10
Quote examples
Norman Vincent Peale
American Clergyman
Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.
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Paulo Coelho
Brazilian Novelist
Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.
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Joyce Meyer
American Author
We will all fail in life, but nobody has to be a failure. Failing at a thing doesn't make you a failure. You are only a failure when you quit trying.
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Napoleon Hill
American Author
Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
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Thomas A. Edison
American Inventor
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
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George Eliot
British Author
There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
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Jack Kerouac
American Novelist
My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
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Barack Obama
American President
In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.
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Buddha
Leader
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
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Anthony J. D'Angelo
American Writer
The only real failure in life is one not learned from.
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Norman Vincent Peale
American Clergyman
Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.
Quote examples
Paulo Coelho
Brazilian Novelist
Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.
Quote examples
Joyce Meyer
American Author
We will all fail in life, but nobody has to be a failure. Failing at a thing doesn't make you a failure. You are only a failure when you quit trying.
Quote examples
Napoleon Hill
American Author
Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
Quote examples
Thomas A. Edison
American Inventor
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Quote examples
George Eliot
British Author
There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
Quote examples
Jack Kerouac
American Novelist
My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
Quote examples
Barack Obama
American President
In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.
Quote examples
Buddha
Leader
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
Quote examples
Anthony J. D'Angelo
American Writer
The only real failure in life is one not learned from.
Example 1 of 10
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