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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...

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

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

“We learn from failure, not from success!”

Failure means I dared try.

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.

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 ...

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.

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

A leader's failure is never isolated, involving only the leader. Usually the failure of a leader involves basic patterns of hiding and blaming throughout the whole organization, patterns that must...

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...

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

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...

The genius of the biblical revelation is that it refuses to deny the dark side of things, but forgives failure and integrates falling to achieve its only promised wholeness.

Failure isn’t final until you quit!

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.

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...