What makes authentic disciples is not visions, ecstasies, biblical mastery of chapter and verse, or spectacular success in the ministry, but a capacity for faithfulness. Buffeted by the fickle winds of failure, battered by their...

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Ukiwapa watoto wako uhuru wa shaghalabaghala au uhuru wa kila kitu watajisahau! Wape uhuru wa mahesabu.

Failure isn’t bad if it doesn’t attack the heart. Success is all right if it doesn’t go to the head.

Opportunities that always fail need change; else they will continue to keep failing till the future have its end.

Trying is the first step towards failure

Don’t embrace mediocrity; its main charm is to make you fall in love with failure. Speed off… Excellence awaits you at the end of your journey!

Peter denied Jesus; Judas betrayed Jesus. The bad news was that both of them fell off the track and were both filled with regrets, remorse and anguish for their mischievous behaviours. However it was only...

In the university of life, failure births experience

The fact that hackers could have accessed data on up to 40 million accounts because of a processor’s failure to follow your own established rules makes me question the effectiveness and ability of self-regulation by...

You can’t always get it right, if you fail, and it will happen, accept it, jump back on and try again

I don’t want to put a deadline on it, because you never know, you set yourself up for failure. But I’m very optimistic.

Failure fear people who pursue success, cause their bravery to become successful is far more than failure to understand.

The possibilities far outweigh the disappointments. Keep learning, keep believing and keep seeking.

Failure is an arrow pointing the right direction.

Sometimes it takes a wrong turn to get you to the right place.

Failure is just another way to learn how to do something right.

We may not understand the pathways God lays out before us. We may not even like walking the journey. But even in failure, we can trust that He’ll do more than we expect.

Mistakes are great teachers. They are stern, confident and fierce inredirecting you from what you should not do; to what you should do.

It takes ten good decisions to make up for one disastrous one. This is why it is better not to make nine good decisions than to make one bad one—which is what happens most of...

If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original.

Failure knocks the door of the unprepared minds very often.

A son is an unfulfilled man’s last attempt to fulfill his unfulfilled dreams.

I keep a vivid memory of failure in my back pocket, so no matter how much I accomplish I stay grounded.

If at first you don’t succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.

[John] Kobak explained, ‘The way you learn anything is that something fails, and you figure out how not to have it fail again.

In my view, [that] is a failure. I’ve never seen anything like this.

Mistakes should be examined, learned from, and discarded; not dwelled upon and stored.

A lack of planning leads to failure.

If you were to believe that you would’ve never have tried anything new; when you don’t you will only master failure.

It is said that there are four kinds of horses: excellent ones, good ones, poor ones, and bad ones. The best horse will run slow and fast, right and left, at the driver’s will, before...

Nothing good ever comes out of hurry and frustration, only misery.

Don’t be afraid of failures it takes courage to try new things & only those who try create History.

Everything begins with failing. If you stop to fail, then your failing to stop, to try and try again, and bring success.

I don’t put my ideas in a meeting for acceptance or rejection, I put them in the market for success or failure.

If a person’s life objective has been endorsed by his inner call, then he is bound to repeatedly fail and fall for he is scaling up the wall which is very tall and that’s not...

There is nothing that teaches you more than regrouping after failure and moving on. Yet most people are stricken with fear. They fear failure so much that they fail.

The reassuring smile was now useless. I was plastic. Everything was veiled. Objectivity, facts, hard information–these were things only in the outline stage. There was nothing tying anything together yet, so the mind built up...

And there it is again, the look. There’s no doubt about it, if Sylvie had a receipt, she would have taken him back by now; this one’s gone wrong. It’s not what I wanted.

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

Recognize your failures when they happen but don’t dwell on them. Instead, focus on the successes you have had in your life. If you’ve done it once, you can do it again. Build on that....

You are your own cannoe and you are your own paddle, so paddle your own cannoe. Society had taught us to give away our power and abilities by making us to believe that other people...

I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him...

Although claiming my true identity as a child of God, I still live as though the God to whom I am returning demands an explanation. I still think about his love as conditional and about...

She felt as if she had somehow failed him and herself by allowing his mother’s behavior to upset her. She should be above it; she should shrug it off as the ranting of a village...

The taxpayer is footing the bill for his failure to reform the public services, and Gordon Brown’s lack of fiscal responsibility will damage our ability to compete in the new global economy.

Don’t waste your time hating a failure. Failure is a greater teacher than success. Listen, learn, go on.

Success is seasonal.

A can’t in a can—it’s carbonated failure that’s ready to drink. It tastes like the back half of love.

I am struck by how sharing our weakness and difficulties is more nourishing to others than sharing our qualities and successes.