Failures Quotes

“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 home as a place I am not yet fully sure of. While walking home, I keep entertaining doubts about whether I will be truly welcome when I get there. As I look at my spiritual journey, my long and fatiguing trip home, I see how full it is of guilt about the past and worries about the future. I realize my failures and know that I have lost the dignity of my sonship, but I am not yet able to fully believe that where my failings are great, 'grace is always greater.' Still clinging to my sense of worthlessness, I project for myself a place far below that which belongs to the son, (p. 52).”
― Henri J.M. Nouwen, The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming

“What you fear is what you must conquer.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“Yet the human heart is disheartened by the most unreasonable self-judgments, because even when we take on giants, we too often confuse failure with fault, which I know too well. The only way back from such a bleak despondency is to shape humiliation into humility, to strive always to triumph over the darkness while never forgetting that the honor and the beauty are more in striving than in winning. When triumph at last comes, our efforts alone could not have won the day without that grace which surpasses all understanding and which will, if we allow it, imbue our lives with meaning.”
― Dean Koontz, Odd Interlude

“Adversity quickens the mind, awakens the spirit and strength the soul.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“He who can endure the worst can withstand any thing.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“The obstacles were intended to be a distraction from the goal.
You must keep a persistence focus to realise the goal.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.”
― Wilma Rudolph

“Sometimes, situation may be uncomfortable but must endure.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“I've learned that God sometimes allows us to find ourselves in a place where we want something so bad that we can't see past it. Sometimes we can't even see God because of it. When we want something so bad, it's easy to mistake what we truly need for the thing we really want. When this sort of thing happens, and it seems to happen to everyone, I've found it's because what God has for us is obscured from view, just around another bend in the road.

In the Bible, the people following God had the same problem I did. They swapped the real thing for an image of the real thing. We target the wrong thing and our misdirected life's goal ends up looking like a girl or a wide-brimmed hat or a golden calf. All along, what God really wants for us is something much different, something more tailored for us.

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And when each of us looks back at all the turns and folds God has allowed in our lives, I don't think it looks like a series of folded-overs that have shaped our lives. Instead I think we'll conclude in the end that maybe we're all a little like human origami and the more creases we have, the better.”
― Bob Goff, Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World

“You gain control over any situation with a positive outlook.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“Take Action: Success is not guaranteed but inaction will guaranty failure.”
― Ken Poirot

“He tried to get drunk, “to forget about life for awhile,” as that old
Billy Joel song once said, but the scotch couldn't anesthetize his pain
and provide a retreat from the reality of his latest failures.”
― Keith Steinbaum, The Poe Consequence

“The limitations in life do not necessary limit you.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“It takes self-discipline and persistence action to achieve the goal.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“I am not shame of my failures, they were necessary for my ultimate success.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“Take a daily action to make your dreams a reality.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“How we handle adversity determines the chances if we either fall or rise.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“Our reaction to any situation will determine the outcome.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“May you find grace and strength to achieve all the good things your faith prompts you to do.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“We must graciously endure the times.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“I am born to win.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“Experience is the best school,
Failures, Mistakes, Embarrassments, and Heartaches are teaching there,
Offering only one lesson called Life,
That you could only finish once you're dead!”
― Nelson M. Lubao

“The difference between a successful and an unsuccessful person is that, one has preserved his potentials while the other has processed his own!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365

“I have always admired brave men and women who endured the test time.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“Experience is something you have to go through to tell it details.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“Every limitation must be overcome to realised the goal.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“Failure is a teacher. It teaches what you ought to learn.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“Too often we give up due to temporal challenge.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“Fear deprive us of what we can possess.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“Mistakes are stepping stones for great achievement.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind