Quotes about Failure

When unprepared people think they're strong enough to resist any intimidation they may face, they're at great risk for abysmal failure. Pride in one's own strength cannot take the place of spiritual preparation. Discipleship is crucial to our ultimate destiny, but its cost is total commitment. Jesus warned against failing to count this cost before committing (Luke 14:25-33).

Failure is an event not a person.

Fields plowed and sown, but yielding no fruit! Machinery constantly in motion, but all without one particle of produce! Nets cast into the sea and spread wide, but no fishes caught! All this for years — for a lifetime!

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.

Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Once a broken bone heals, it is often strongest at the point of the fracture. In the same way, God can take the shame of past failures and amazingly redirect their outcomes toward your future success.

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Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.

One who fears failure limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again.

Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Don't worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try.