failure on Fear of Failure

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

A brother asked Abba Sisoes, “What shall I do, abba, for I have fallen?” The old man said, “Get up again.” The brother said, “I have got up again, but I have fallen again.” The old man said, “Get up a...

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 ...

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...

In 2014’s Oscar-winning film Birdman, Michael Keaton plays a washed-out actor trying to start his life again after a series of failed roles. But his efforts are haunted by the voice of the “Birdman,” ...

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.

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

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...

What are blind spots? They are areas in which people continually fail to see themselves or their situation realistically.

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...

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

Heavenly Father, we confess that our sinfulness gives us fear and keeps us from pursuing your will. We live with ideas of safety and failure that do not make room for your call to set our lives aside ...

Failure means I dared try.

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 learn from failure, not from success!”

He who has never failed somewhere, that man cannot be great. Failure is the test of greatness.

"Trying is the first step toward failure."

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

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

So you failed. All right you really failed. You failed. You failed. You failed. You failed. You failed. You failed. You failed. You failed. You failed. You failed. You failed. You failed. You think I ...

And seldom if ever do I leave the pulpit without a sense of partial failure, a mood of penitence, a cry to God for forgiveness, and a resolve to look to Him for grace to do better in the future.

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

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.

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...

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

Failure isn’t final until you quit!

When people fail, we are inclined to find fault with them, but if you look more closely, you will find that God had some particular truth for them to learn, which the trouble they are in is to teach t...

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

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.