61 Metaphors for failure

Of course your failure to do the assessment work while you were alone here was negligence, but that is all.

He no longer experienced despair over such a Kennel misfortune; but cheerfully resolved that each failure must be a stepping-stone, not a stumbling-block, in the march toward success.

For my part, the failure of a Bookseller is not the most unpalatable accident of mortality: sad but not saddest

Cause and effect follow each other as certainly in the preparation of food as in other things; and with a knowledge of the underlying principles, and faithfulness in carrying out the necessary details, failure becomes almost an impossibility.

The failure of the Government to appreciate the value of what was offered to them was always a source of deep regret to Morse.

What a failure is a man in an exalted post without character!

But the failure of his eyesight was the actual cause of his retirement.

" "But John the failure of others is no excuse for our own derelictions.

The failure of Rowan's love affair was a blow to him: it had so linked him to the life of the youngwas the last link.

" As the spirits of those about them mounted, the hearts of the two youths sankif it was like this among the Claibornes, what would it be at school and in the world at large when their failure to connect intention with result became village talk?

The failure to present the law in the session of July was not the only, nor even the principal, point in which he thought the engagement of Mr. Sérurier uncomplied with; for although he saw no reason for the omission that could be called a constitutional one, yet he expressly says that might have been overlooked.

Perhaps the most critical failure of western civilization was its inability or unwillingness to take that next step during the decisive years that followed the Hague Conference of 1899.

Which was in part the truth; though Mr. Dunborough's failure to appear at the rendezvous had been the main factor in determining the men.

Gerrit Smith made one or two attempts toward an "anti-dramshop" party, but, as women could not vote, they felt no interest in the measure, and failure was the result.

Gomantak's failure in the face of Tarun Bharat's onslaught is an example of how a market leader can fail by sitting on its laurels.

A failure, and complete, Was your Old Stone Fleet.

I can assure you the failure of my plot was no end of a disappointment to me.

His failure to point forward is no doubt partly due to his having nothing very satisfactory to point forward to.

"Failure is often the forerunner of success," I replied, for want, perhaps, of something better to say.

" "It was never intended to be a permanent thing, anyhow," continued Mr. Merrick; "yet I must express my admiration for the courage and talent my nieces have displayed in forcing a temporary success where failure was the logical conclusion.

When Mr. Dunborough returned from a futile search, his failure in which condemned him to another twenty-four hours in that company, the first thing he saw was the attorney's gloomy face awaiting them in a dark corner of the coffee-room.

It is the vanquished's praises that I sing, And this is the toast I choose: "A hard-fought failure is a noble thing; Here's to the men who lose!" Anonymous.

But the failures of great men are our most profitable lessons,provided only, that we have hearts and heads to respond to their success.

Hates may be friendships just drifted apart, Failure be genius not quite understood, Say!

Let him try as he please, he is still sure of failure; and it is a very old and a very true saying that failure is the only highroad to success.

61 Metaphors for  failure