I think that failure by your own standards is certainly a form of success.
Before this government came to power, many failing schools were simply allowed to drift on in a pattern of continuing failure. The government is determined to break that pattern and is successfully doing so.
I saw why people died and how they died. I saw gunshot wounds and liver failure. It was a good learning experience, so I came regularly on weekends and holidays.
The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more.
My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative.
I've had great success and I've had catastrophic failure. It's really how you handle the rough stuff that defines you, I think.
Failure to properly control our borders costs citizens in many ways: schools become overcrowded, medical resources are stretched too thin, other government services are overtaxed, and taxes increase further.
Failure and things of this sort - you can take it one of two ways. You can either let that hurt you and really affect the way that you live your life in the future, or you can use that as an opportunity for growth.
What we have most to fear is failure of the heart.
Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure.