Quotes About Failure

Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.

God does not accept me conditionally, on the basis of my performance, but bestows his love and forgiveness freely, despite my innumerable failures.

We in the church have humility and contrition to offer the world, not a formula for success. Almost alone in our success-oriented society, we admit that we have failed, are failing, and always will fail.

Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or failure of the previous one is irrelevant. I write the book I want.

If I didn't have children, I think my life would be a failure.

was built with London's Docklands in mind and marketed as an "urban village," but has failed to

The failure of memory, then is as much sociological as it is historical.

One thing I do know, and I believe you know it too, is that what he is doing goes against the very grain of the universe. He's taking the path of Icarus, and no matter how you mix the wax, it melts when it gets too close to the sun.

I am not up to this. I am not capable. I thought I would be, but I'm not. Some part of me is missing, and I cannot do this.

Welcome to the graveyard of ambition

I am not up to this. I am not capable. I thought I would be, but I'm not. Some part of me is missing, and I cannot do this.

Max, for some people there are no victories, just alternate forms of losing.

I like to succeed in public, but to fail in secret.

Our culture seems incapable of connecting cause and effect when the two events do not occur within easy recall of each other. The parents of these young adults have failed them totally, yet we as a culture refuse to connect cause and effect because we have no stomach for punishing the innocent-appearing parents.

Only psychologically mature young adults can tolerate the reality that their parents failed them in certain areas, because their maturity frees them from needing false but comforting illusions about their parents. That is, their identity is firm enough to allow them to stand on their own without needing the support of their parents.

The reality is that not every place claiming to be a church is part of the church universal, that many churches fail their calling. This fact forces us toward something like the old distinction between the churches that we see (the church visible) and the church that Jesus recognizes as his people (the church invisible). We may not be able to find Christ's people where we thought to look. But I am convinced that we can find them.

He said that more businesses die from indigestion than starvation. I have observed the truth of that advice many times since then.

Bill did not believe in luck. Bad luck or good. Bill knew it was never a matter of luck, never a question of luck. Bill knew luck was just another excuse for failure.

One day they won. The next day they lost.

disappointment, in science, is sometimes a gateway to insight.

Fairy tales do not deny the existence of . . . sorrow and failure: the possibility of these is necessary to the joy of deliverance; it denies (in the face of much evidence if you will) universal final defeat . . . giving a glimpse of Joy, Joy beyond the walls of the world, poignant as grief. —J. R. R. Tolkien

Risk is asymmetrical because people tend to run away when things go wrong and crowd together when things go well. That's just human nature.

The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success.

Tully always had a knack for seeing opportunity where others couldn't. A true entrepreneur, he developed several companies from scratch with enormous success, but also with a fair share of failures and mistakes.