Pastoral Resources

Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something.

I believe my publisher has shown a great deal of faith in me over a lot of years but I'm not prepared to be so arrogant to say that the long-term literary value of my work would compensate them for a financial failure.

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

This dullness of vision regarding the importance of the general welfare to the individual is the measure of the failure of our schools and churches to teach the spiritual significance of genuine democracy.

Failure to properly control our borders costs citizens in many ways: schools become overcrowded, medical resources are stretched too thin, other government services are overtaxed, and taxes increase further.

You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize the future.

The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.

If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.

You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success - on the far side of failure.

Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.

Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.

Young players need freedom of expression to develop as creative players... they should be encouraged to try skills without fear of failure.

None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind; witness what's going on in the world in this moment, the follies of human nature and the failures of human nature.

Every failure is a step to success.

It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.

Failure's not a bad thing. It builds character. It makes you stronger.