mistakes on Success

Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.

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

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

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

At eighteen, a self-assured Benjamin Franklin returned to Boston, the city he had fled just seven months earlier. Dressed in a fine new suit, with a watch on his wrist and a pocket full of coins, he p...

The prefrontal cortex is responsible for the success of the human species. It enables us to learn from our mistakes and make plans. When the PFC is healthy, we behave consistently in ways that enable ...

Error, by force of contrast, enhances the triumph of Truth.

Once described a second marriage as the “triumph of hope over experience

A stumble may prevent a fall.

"A step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction."

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...

I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.

Call to Confession The Apostle Paul reminds us in his letter to the Philippian church that God is still at work in us. If you feel you’ve made too many mistakes, remember that God will finish the go...

A person that never climbs will never fall.

We readily confess our little faults in order to suggest that we have no big ones.

Preaching Commentary Pastoral Letters Our text comes early in the pastoral letter of 1 Timothy, right after a brief welcome to the letter’s recipient and an exhortation to fight against the false t...

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

“If one wants to be active, one mustn’t be afraid to do something wrong sometimes, not afraid to lapse into some mistakes. To be good — many people think that they’ll achieve it by doing no harm — and...

Gracious God, sometimes I think that I can figure out all the consequences of my decisions. I can become overly impressed with what I perceive to be my strategic vision and analysis. Forgive me for my...

Perhaps the history of the errors of mankind, all things considered, is more valuable and interesting than that of their discoveries. Truth is uniform and narrow; it constantly exists, and does not se...

We know mistakes were made.

Today is Yesterday's Pupil.

In South Florida several years ago, there was a skywriter who occasionally spelled out happy messages about God—things like “God loves you.” Often, on a clear morning, you could step out and see the p...

Tom Watson, Sr., is the man who founded IBM. You can imagine the money, the investments, the experiments, this man, and his multi-billion dollar company have made through the years. Once, years ago, w...

“My mistakes are my life.” How It Is

God does for you what Bill Tucker’s father did for him. Bill was sixteen years old when his dad suffered a health crisis and consequently had to leave his business. Even after Mr. Tucker regained his ...

If a mistake is not a stepping stone, it is a mistake.

I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn’t explain away afterwards.

Any fool can learn from his mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.

Many years ago a senior executive of the then Standard Oil Company made a wrong decision that cost the company more than $2 million. John D. Rockefeller was then running the firm. On the day the news ...