Failure Quotes - Page 31

* We have come this far always believing that justice would somehow prevail. This is the burden, this is the promise, and THIS is why we will not fail.

No matter what you do, no matter how stupid, dumb or damaging you judge it to be, there is a lesson to be learned from it.

May every young scientist remember and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure of his apparatus to give consistent results may once or twice in a lifetime conceal an important discovery.

Defeats and failures are great developers of character. They have made the giants of our race by giving Titanic muscles, brawny sinews, and far-reaching intellects.

I will tell you that there have been no failures in my life. I don't want to sound like some metaphysical queen,but there have been no failures. There have been some tremendous lessons.

Every one of us gets through the tough times because somebody is there, standing in the gap to close it for us.

You are built not to shrink down to less but to blossom into more.

His advice to me is basically to just love what you do and don't let the fear of failure stop you.

Failure is blindness to the strategic element in events; success is readiness for instant action when the opportune moment arrives.

The sight of the eye, the hearing of the ear, the touch of the hand may each and all be deceived, but the instructions of the spirit are in all things correct. The combined senses may misguide or fail, but he who happily secures the companionship of the Holy Spirit, walks in the ways of life and neither fears, becomes weary nor faints by the wayside.

Pulling yourself up again is the most important part of your life. Getting out of the bottom that you put everything into - yourself!

You can't succeed unless you've got failure, especially creatively.

Men are failures, not because they are stupid, but because they are not sufficiently impassioned.

God knows the feelings in every human heart. He can soften sorrow and lead when there seems to be no light. Prayer can give guidance and confidence. It reminds us that no one need be alone in this world. If all else fails, remember, God and one other person can be a family.

Christ is the Master; the Scriptures are only the servant. The true way to test all the Books is to see whether they work the will of Christ or not. No Book which does not preach Christ can be apostolic, though Peter or Paul were its author. And no Book which does preach Christ can fail to be apostolic, although Judas, Ananias, Pilate, or Herod were its author.

Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.

When a man arrives at great prosperity God did it: when he falls into disaster he did it himself.

It is not in the least likely that any life has ever been lived which was not a failure in the secret judgment of the person who lived it.

All art is failure. How one fails is a different matter.

They never fail who die in a great cause.

Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.

Do not take yourself too seriously. You have to learn not to be dismayed at making mistakes. No human being can avoid failures.

Rushing into action, you fail. Trying to grasp things, you lose them. Forcing a project to completion, you ruin what was almost ripe.

Thought is born of failure.

Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.