Laughing is the quickest way to get up and get going again when you've been knocked down. Failing Forward

Every successful person is someone who failed, yet never regarded himself as a failure.

There is no achievement without failure.

Contentment is taking your present situation—whatever obstacles you are facing, whatever limitation you are living with, whatever chronic condition wears you down, whatever has smashed your dreams, whatever factors and circumstances in life tend to push you under—and admitting you don't like it but never saying, "I can't cope with it.

Failure isn't failure if you do better the next time.

God prepares leaders in a crockpot, not a microwave. More important than the awaited goal is the work God does in us while we wait. Waiting deepens and matures us, levels our perspective, and broadens our understanding. Tests of time determine whether we can endure seasons of seemingly unfruitful preparation, and indicate whether we can recognize and seize the opportunities that come our way.

Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it. —DON MARQUIS

Adversity doesn't build character; it reveals it.

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

If your perception of and response to failure were changed, what would you attempt to achieve?

You will never get to the point that you no longer make mistakes, that you no longer fail. But that's okay.

The price of success is failure.