Quotes about Failure

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.

I think the fall in Eden was ultimately a failure to give thanks.

What is indisputable is the fact that unbelief is the force that gives birth to all of our bad behavior and every moral failure. It is the root.

Wisdom is not gained by knowing what is right. Wisdom is gained by practicing what is right, and noticing what happens when that practice succeeds and when it fails.

We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

You will profit by the failure, and will avoid it another time. I have done a similar thing myself, in construction, often. Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn.

The wisdom of God is vaster than the wisdom of man. Failure to pay attention to it will have ramifications.

If you don't succeed, you run the risk of failure.