30 Quotes About Failure

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Success is on the same road as failure; success is just a little further down the road.
- Jack Hyles
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Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.
- Francis Chan
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It is better to make a thousand failures than to be too cowardly to ever undertake anything.
- Clovis G. Chappell
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Failing is not a disgrace unless you make it the last chapter of your book.
- Jack Hyles
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The blessed, fruitful, victorious experiences of yesterday are not only of no value to me today, but they will actually be eaten up or reversed by today's failures, unless they serve as incentives to still better, richer experiences today.
- S.D. Gordon
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Remember that failure is an event, not a person.
- Zig Ziglar
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What is God's remedy for dejection at apparent failure in our labors? This - the assurance that God's purpose cannot fail, that God's plans cannot miscarry, that God's will must be done. Our labors are not intended to bring about that which God has not decreed.
- A. W. Pink
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The church that is man-managed instead of God-governed is doomed to failure. A ministry that is college-trained but not Spirit-filled works no miracles.
- Samuel Chadwick
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If there be, therefore, perpetual failure in your life, it cannot arise from any weakness or impotence in the Mighty God; but from some failure on your part. That failure may probably be discovered in one of three hiding places--imperfect surrender, deficient faith; or neglected communion. But when the intention of the soul is right with God, without doubt He will save.
- F.B. Meyer
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You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.
- Zig Ziglar
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Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
- Zig Ziglar
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Christ did not die simply that you might be saved from a bad conscience, or even to remove the stain of past failure, but to "clear the decks" for divine action.
- Major Ian Thomas
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He who bears failure with patience is as much of a philosopher as he who succeeds; for to put up with the world needs as much wisdom as to control it.
- James H. Aughey
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Failure is a school in which the truth always grows strong.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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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 them.
- G.V. Wigram
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Others may fail you, but God never will.
- Woodrow Kroll
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Sum up the life of Jesus by any other standard than God's, and it is an anticlimax of failure.
- Oswald Chambers
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Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
- C.S. Lewis
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To dwell on the past simply causes failure in the present. While you are sitting down and bemoaning the past and regretting all the things you have not done, you are crippling yourself and preventing yourself from working in the present. Is that Christianity? Of course it is not.
- Martyn Lloyd-Jones
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The difference between success and failure is work.
- Jack Hyles
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One who faces his own failures is steadily advancing on the pilgrim's way.
- William Temple
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If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being.
- Jerry Falwell
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Whatever failure you and I make of our lives, we do not make because God forces us to do so. In whatever way we go wrong, we do not do so because God planned that we should. We do it because of our own willfulness and wicked rebellion against God.
- Clovis G. Chappell
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If you do nothing but urge people to 'look out for number one,' you will be setting them up for future failure in any relationship, especially marriage.
- Tim Keller
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We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing.
- Assorted Authors
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And seldom if ever do I leave the pulpit without a sense of partial failure, a mood of penitence, a cry to God for forgiveness, and a resolve to look to Him for grace to do better in the future.
- John Stott
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Failure means I dared try.
- Jack Hyles
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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
- George Washington Carver
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Our efforts after Christian growth seem only a succession of failures, and, instead of rising into the beauty of holiness, our life is a daily heart-break and humiliation.
- Henry Drummond
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Make no provisions for failure.
- Jack Hyles
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Obamanomics is simply the philosophy of socialism, loosely defined as "collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production or distribution of goods." Nations that embrace socialism inevitably experience stagnation and economic decline.
- Judge Roy Moore
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