Quotes related to Proverbs 24:16
I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don't work out, that's when I've really learned.
— Carol Burnett
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.
— George Weigel
Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
— Coco Chanel
It's easy enough to be pleasant when everything goes like a song, but the man who is worthwhile, is the man who can smile, when everything goes dead wrong.
— Anonymous
We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter; we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them.
— William Hazlitt
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
— William Saroyan
Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.
— Anonymous
An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
— George Eliot
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
— George Bernard Shaw
To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Failure is a school in which the truth always grows strong.
— Henry Ward Beecher
I feel like the man who was tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail. To the man who asked how he liked it he said: 'If it wasn't for the honour of the thing, I'd rather walk.'
— Abraham Lincoln