“Be not angry that thou canst not make others as thou wishest them to be, since thou canst not make thyself as thou wishest to be.”
Thomas à Kempis
PatienceHumility
Failure Quotes
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · FAILURE
Failure Quotes
Read 200 of the best failure quotes about mistakes, setbacks, trying again and turning failure into success, from Keats, Edison, Whitman and more.
“The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.”
Augustine of Hippo
ConfessionNew Beginnings
“Have patience with all things, but first of all with yourself.”
Francis de Sales
Self-CompassionPatience
“Life is mostly froth and bubble, two things stand like stone: kindness in another's trouble, courage in your own.”
Adam Lindsay Gordon
KindnessCourage
“The ill-timed truth we might have kept - who knows how sharp it pierced and stung? The word we had not sense to say - who knows how grandly it had rung?”
Edward Rowland Sill
RegretWords
“He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.”
The Bible (Proverbs 28:13)
HonestyMercy
“For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.”
The Bible (Romans 7:19)
Human WeaknessStruggle
“For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.”
The Bible (Psalm 51:3)
Owning MistakesHonesty
“If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins.”
The Bible (1 John 1:9)
ForgivenessSecond Chances
“For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.”
The Bible (Psalm 103:14)
GraceHuman Weakness
“Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough.”
The Bible (Haggai 1:6)
FrustrationEffort
“I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain.”
The Bible (Isaiah 49:4)
DiscouragementEffort
“And David said unto Nathan, I have sinned against the Lord.”
The Bible (2 Samuel 12:13)
Owning MistakesRepentance
“The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart.”
The Bible (Psalm 34:18)
ComfortHeartbreak
“He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock.”
The Bible (Psalm 40:2)
RescueComebacks
“I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant.”
The Bible (Psalm 119:176)
LostHope
“Shall they fall, and not arise? shall he turn away, and not return?”
The Bible (Jeremiah 8:4)
Getting Back UpHope
“O Israel, return unto the Lord thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.”
The Bible (Hosea 14:1)
ReturnSecond Chances
“Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son.”
The Bible (Luke 15:21)
HumilityComing Home
“Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling.”
The Bible (Jude 1:24)
ProtectionFaith
“For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.”
The Bible (Romans 3:23)
Human WeaknessHumility
“For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.”
The Bible (Ecclesiastes 7:20)
ImperfectionHumility
“A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench.”
The Bible (Isaiah 42:3)
GentlenessHope
“In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk.”
The Bible (Acts 3:6)
Getting Back UpFaith
“Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.”
William Shakespeare
ReputationPerspective