But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
—Seneca
“If you make yourself a very reliable person and stay reliable all your life, faithfully doing whatever you engage to do, it will be very hard for you to fail at anything you want.”
“There’s a big difference between probability and outcome: probable things fail to happen—and improbable things happen—all the time. That’s one of the most important things you can know about investment risk.”
— Howard Marks
One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
Where the most eloquent exhortation fails, the simple story of an event succeeds; the lives of men are transformed by a piece of news.
—J. Gresham Machen
I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.
—Charles Dickens
I have never failed, I’ve only shown the way I did it before doesn’t work.
—Thomas Edison
Restlessness is discontent — and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man — and I will show you a failure.
—Thomas Edison
There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail.
—Henry Ford
It’s only hubris if I fail.
—Julius Caesar
Let us trust him when we cannot see him. Let us put our confidence in him, and he will surely not fail us.
—D. L. Moody
Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.
—Charlie Chaplin
Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We’ve been using them not because we needed them but because we had them.
—Seneca
You must ask for God’s help. … After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again. – C.S. Lewis
Success is 99% failure.
—Henry Ford
99% of failures come from people who make excuses.
—George Washington
Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
—Thomas Edison
“It is all well with Christ’s cause because it is in his own hands. He shall not fail nor be discouraged. The pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hands.”
But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
—Seneca
Falling down is not a failure.
Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen.
—Socrates
Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it cannot, has pain in the failure but pleasure in contemplating the immensity of the attempt.
—Immanuel Kant
If I fail it is only because I have too much pride and ambition.
—Julius Caesar
Looking back, there is so much to grieve over. We can see nothing at all in ourselves to praise, but so much in our Savior. His patience has never failed. He has never given up hope for us. There is something very heartening in this.
—Amy Carmichael
When reason fails, the devil helps!
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
The world situation is such that nothing less than God can straighten it out;
Let us not fail the world & disappoint God by failing to pray
—AW Tozer
You never fail until you stop trying.
—Albert Einstein
Was grieved that I could do so little for God before my bodily strength failed.
—David Brainerd
You can never convict a man of sin, because that is the work of the Holy Spirit. You can reason and reason and you will fail. It is ours to preach the Word and look to the Holy Spirit to produce conviction.
—R. A. Torrey
The one who neglects his Bible is bound to make a failure of the Christian life.
—R. A. Torrey
The reason why many fail in the battle is because they wait until the hour of battle. The reason why others succeed is because they have gained their victory on their knees long before the battle came.
—R. A. Torrey