Quotes about Failure
Why doesn't anyone care that the schools in Harlem have been unsuccessful for half a century? Why is this not a big deal? To me, it's a terrible deal.
— Eva Moskowitz
Even Sachin used to get ducks during his career. There are ups and downs in every athlete's career.
— Hima Das
If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.
— Timothy Keller
Although most of us have affirmed that God is the Creator of all things, it is quite easy to worship him as Creator on Sunday and curse his work during the week. We do this when we are dissatisfied with the way God has made the people we relate to every day. When we fail to worship God as Creator in our relationships, we try to ascend to his throne and do all we can to recreate others in our own image. This always leads to frustration and failure.
— Timothy Lane
The reason we fail to keep commands 4 through 10 is because we have failed to keep the first three. If you break commands 1 through 3, you will break commands 4 through 10. Your Thorny, sinful responses to life grow out of a heart that has defected to worship something else.
— Timothy Lane
In school you're rewarded for not making mistakes.
— Dale Carnegie
Sponsors dropped him, his wife left him, and his golf skills suffered greatly.
— Dale Carnegie
Our most serious failure today is the inability to provide effective practical guidance as to how to live the life of Jesus. And I believe that is due to this very real loss of biblical realism for our lives
— Dallas Willard
Any voice that promises total exemption from suffering and failure is most certainly not God's voice. In recent years innumerable spokespeople for God have offered ways we can use God and his Bible as guarantees of health, success and wealth.
— Dallas Willard
I believe one reason why so many people do in fact fail to immerse themselves in the words of the New Testament, and neglect or even avoid them, is that the life they see there is so unlike what they know from their own experience.
— Dallas Willard
I failed my exam in some subjects but my friend passed. Now he's an engineer in Microsoft and I am the owner.
— Bill Gates
Without failure there is no achievement.
— John Maxwell