Quotes about Failure

Make mistakes and make bad decisions: you learn from them.

Don't walk headfirst into sin when you know better. But when you fail, as you most surely will, let God use those failures for His glory.

God can take your most monstrous failures and turn them into triumphs such as you never could imagine.

They laughed at Einstein. They laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

The failure of Lateran V was the prelude to the Reformation, which shattered the unity of the Christian West and set in motion the dynamics that eventually led to the European wars of religion. Failures of reform carry a high cost.

Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

At the end of what is called the 'sexual life' the only love which has lasted is the love which has everything, every disappointment, every failure and every betrayal, which has accepted even the sad fact that in the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.

There are two main pitfalls on the road to mastery of the art of prayer. If a person gets what he asks for, his humility is in danger. If he fails to get what he asks for, he is apt to lose confidence. Indeed, no matter whether prayer seems to be succeeding or failing, humility and confidence are two virtues which are absolutely essential.

To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.

God may allow His servant to succeed when He has disciplined him to a point where he does not need to succeed to be happy. The man who is elated by success and is cast down by failure is still a carnal man. At best his fruit will have a worm in it.

I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat.