Failure - christiansquoting.org.uk

Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.

Mistakes are often the stepping stones to utter failure.

A man may make many mistakes, but is not a failure until he starts blaming someone else for them.

You have not really failed or been defeated unless you believe it.

I entered the Failure of the Year competition and came in last. They gave me the trophy and then took it away.

Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. --Roger Babson (1875-1967)

There's only one thing that can guarantee our failure, and that's if we quit. - Craig Breedlove

Nothing is ever a complete failure; it can always serve as a bad example. Carlson's Consolation (from Murphy's Laws)

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. -- Bill Cosby

When you subsidise poverty and failure, you get more of both.-- James Dale Davidson

The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.
Humphrey Davy (1778-1829)

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure. --George Eliot [Marian Evans Cross] (1819-1880) _Middlemarch_ [1871], Book 2, Chapter 22

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.... Ralph Waldo Emerson, (1803-1882)

The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success. - B. C. Forbes, 1880 - 1954

Failure is success if we learn from it.-- Malcolm S. Forbes

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I'm a failure. - Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa, 1906 - 1992

Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured.--Homer (c. 700 BC)_The Odyssey_, Book XV, Line 400

Every man has something to do which he neglects; every man has faults to conquer which he delays to combat. -- Samuel Johnson: Idler #43

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success. - Charles F. Kettering, 1876 - 1958

Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most. George R. Kirkpatrick

There is a deep peace that grows out of illness and loneliness and a sense of failure. God cannot get close when everything is delightful. He seems to need these darker hours, these empty-hearted hours, to mean the most to people.--Frank C. Laubach

Nothing is really lost by a life of sacrifice; everything is lost by failure to obey God's call. --Henry P Liddon

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. - Abraham Lincoln

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure. - Abraham Lincoln, 1809 - 1865

Because a fellow has failed once or twice, or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage - and that's the same thing. -George Lorimer (1867-1937)

Supposing you have tried and failed again and again. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call " failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.
Mary Pickford (1894-1979) In "The Last Word - A Treasury of Women's Quotes," by Carolyn Warner, 1992.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know. - William Saroyan, 1908 - 1981

What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail? - Robert Schuller

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, "Where have I gone wrong?" Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than one night."
Charlie Brown--C Schulz, Peanuts.

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. - Beverly Sills

I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures. - Earl Warren, 1891 - 1974