Sentence examples for failure being from inspiring English sources

West Point had a huge impact on me because it put me in positions to fail, so I got comfortable with failure being a part of success".

Now we have failure being termed success, "running out of troops" renamed "return on success," and "unending occupation" being labeled "enduring relationship".

A drug for acute congestive heart failure being developed with Actelion, a Swiss company, failed in one of two clinical trials.

A drug for acute heart failure being developed by Actelion, a Swiss company, and Genentech failed in a recent clinical trial, though it had worked in a previous trial.

There may be, as Bob Dylan says, no success like failure, but far from failure being no success at all, in its very visceral intensity, it is perhaps the only success there is.

I agree: schools already offer students various incentives to excel (praise, prizes, admission to good colleges), along with disincentives for failure (being cut from a sports team, being harangued by parents and, for much of Western history, being hit with a stick), although few as vulgar as cash.

Neither failure was likely.

But failure is unthinkable.

The failure is systematic.

Failure is fixable.

Failure is not acceptable.