failure on Dangers of Success

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

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.

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

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...

Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to...

"How could this happen? I was so careful. I picked the wrong play, the wrong director, the wrong cast. Where did I go right?"

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...

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

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.

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

Failure means I dared try.

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

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 ...

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

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...

In The Last Arrow, Erwin McManus shares the story of Mark Floyd, a businessman who convinced investors to place $20 million dollars in an investment that ultimately failed. Instead of crawling into a ...

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

It is more important that you should know about the reverses than about the successes of the war. We shall have all eternity to celebrate the victories, but we have only the few hours before sunset in...

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

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

Our business in the world is not to succeed to but to continue to fail in good spirits.

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...

I can’t give you a surefire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure; try to please everybody all the time.

Failure isn’t final until you quit!

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

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...

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 ...

As the darkness began to descend on me in my early twenties, I thought I had developed a unique and terminal case of failure. I did not realize that I had merely embarked on a journey toward joining t...

“We learn from failure, not from success!”

All the accomplished gardeners I know are surprisingly comfortable with failure. They may not be happy about it, but instead of reacting with anger or frustration, they seem fairly intrigued by the pe...