Sentence examples for than we succeed from inspiring English sources

We all fail far more than we succeed, humiliating ourselves in front of tens of thousands of fans, trying to attain the unattainable: batting a thousand, pitching without ever losing, secretly seeking the immortality of the record books.

"We fail more than we succeed in show business," Grey says.

We learn to be judicious for the same reason that we learn to be open-minded: most of our ideas turn out not to be true when we test them rigorously, and we fail far more often than we succeed.

At a time when local authorities are under immense pressure to reduce spending on care, and health and social care policy is constantly evolving, it is more important than ever that we succeed in our task.

The core is the biggest percentage of the time – and that's where we fail more often than where we succeed".

But in the real world, an economic catastrophe is far more likely if we fail to cut carbon pollution than if we succeed.

The story's final line – "he kicked off his loafers and threw his long ugly body out across the water" – resonates with a sense of the heroism that resides in the everyday, and the belief that it is what we attempt to do that defines us, rather than what we succeed in doing.

"It will have a lot more significance if we succeed than if we fail," he said.

"The word will spread," Ganten believes, "If this becomes more than straw fire and we succeed in truly setting new accents, we will certainly be able to attract excellent young scientists from all over the world".

And I think we succeed more than we fail on a person-by-person basis.

"It's one of those things where we could have failed dramatically," said Dr. Bialek, "but we succeeded better than we could have expected".