failure on Accomplishment

In his famous 1934 campaign for the governorship of California, the author and activist Upton Sinclair took an unusual step. Before the election, he published a short book titled I, Governor of Cal...

Accept, O Lord, our thanks and praise for all that you have done for us. We thank you for the splendor of the whole creation, for the beauty of this world, for the wonder of life, and for the mystery ...

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

But all at once I realized that it was not my success God had used to enable me to help those in this prison, or in hundreds of others just like it. My life of success was not what made this morning s...

Sometimes our successes can be more devastating than our failures. We fight, strain, and struggle in pursuit of something or someone that looks to be good, and after days or months or years, we obtain...

In an essay on friendship, the renowned poet Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, “My entire success, such as it is, is composed of particular failures.” There’s a deep truth in that line—one many of us need to...

The Benedictine nun Joan Chittister recounts a story she once heard by a communications professor, which she said fundamentally changed the way she thought about success and failure: A young boy was...

In the battle of life, it is not the critic who counts; nor the one who points out how the strong person stumbled, or where the doer of a deed could have done better. The credit belongs to the person ...

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the ar...

Since failure is our unforgivable sin, we are willing to ignore all forms of deviance in people if they just achieve the success symbols which we worship.

We make the grave error of redefining partial success as “failure."

Failure means I dared try.

Quite often the absence of immediate success is the mark of a genuine call., My Creator, My friend.

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

One of the reasons failure can be so crushing is that we set goals of success, instead of improvement and learning.

Evading self-acknowledgment of our faults enables us to avoid painful moral emotions: guilt and remorse for harming others; shame for betraying your own ideals; self-contempt for not meeting even our ...

Studying your own failures as well can make them seem less earth-shattering. One researcher suggested in a 2010 article in Nature that people maintain a “CV of failures,” a written list of the things ...

As somebody once said, there’s a difference between a failure and a fiasco. A failure is simply the non-presence of success.

A common trait of human beings is a fear of failure. Most of us find ways of coping with it, but whenever failure rears its ugly head, it’s difficult not to experience the sting of feeling like we are...

Failure isn’t final until you quit!

Failure is not an event, but rather a judgment about an event. Failure is not something that happens to us or a label we attach to things. It is a way we think about outcomes.

Failure is a gift. When we are forced to drink the dust of our idols, we can begin to turn our sights toward home.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

The truth is, that more spiritual progress is made through failure and tears than success and laughter.

If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.

Our greatest fear should not be of failure, but of succeeding at something that doesn’t really matter.

Gracious God, we confess that we are often dissatisfied with our lives. We recognize the gap that exists between what we are and what we want to be. Lord, like the woman at the well, we know our failu...

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

"Trying is the first step toward failure."

Our greatest fear as individuals and as a church should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.