failure on Pressure to Succeed

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

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.

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.

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

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

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...

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 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.

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 means I dared try.

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 ...

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...

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.

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...

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 ...

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

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

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

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

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

"Trying is the first step toward failure."

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.

“We learn from failure, not from success!”

A young man won admission to college. Instead of writing a letter of congratulations, his father penned this note: Now it is a good thing to put this business very plainly before you. Do not think I...

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

"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 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 ...