Pastoral Resources

You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.

If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.

I was never afraid of failure after that because, I think, coming that close to death you get kissed. With the years, the actual experience of course fades, but the flavor of it doesn't. I just had a real sense of what choice do I have but to live fully?

Fear of failure has always been my best motivator.

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery.

The failure of the system to deal quickly was attributable to Nixon's lying, stonewalling and refusal to come clean. So it took 26 months for the final truth to be known.

Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped.

The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination.

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.

Remember that failure is an event, not a person.

I - and I still consider myself, I'm sorry to tell you, a Marxist and a Communist, but I couldn't help noticing how all the best Marxist analyses are always analyses of a failure.