Sunday, 29 August 2010

34. Failure

It is of the LORD's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. Lamentations 3:22-23.

There is no failure so great that a Christian cannot rise from it. > Helen C. White.

A failure is a man who has blundered but is not able to cash in the experience. > Elbert Hubbard.

Not failure, but low aim, is crime. > James Russell Lowell.

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses. > George Washington Carver.

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure: Try to please everybody. > Herbert Bayard Swope.

A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. > Jonathan Swift.

The only bad thing about making a mistake is to keep on making it. > James Rupert Nance.

Every failure I’ve ever had is because I said yes when I should have said no. > Moss Hart.

Failures are divided into two classes – those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought. > John Charles Salak.

The only time you don’t fail is the last time you try anything – and it works. > William Strong.

A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame someone else. > John Burroughs.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure. > Thomas Edison.

It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world. > Charles Kettering.

See also Proverbs 15:22; 2 Corinthians 6:3-10; 13:5-7.

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