Richard Rohr Quotes

Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

For how long could we fail until we surrendered?

What I've learned is that there is nothing in this life that does not fail to disappoint us, even our own deaths.

We try, and we try, and we fail; and then we go deeper.

You keep on going if you fail.

It's very hard to fail completely, if you aim high enough.

What if I fall?', Tim cried. Maerlyn laughed. 'Sooner or later, we all do.

In order to succeed spectacularly you have to be willing to fail spectacularly.

Go forward while you can, but if your strength fails you, sit down near the road and gaze without anger or envy at those who pass by. They don't have far to go, either.

There have been times when I have failed. But there have never been times when I thought I would fail

If you can't fail, you can never get better.

I don't fear failure because if you don't fail, you would not know the secret of success.

I stood there in the kitchen, watching her staring across the meadow still searching for her nemesis and I thought, suddenly, that this is all our lives - this is the one fact that applies to us all, that makes us what we are, our common mortality, our common humanity. One day someone is going to come and take us away: you don't need to have been a spy, I thought, to feel like this.

If we fail, let us try again and again until we succeed.

I am very competitive, so when I fail I use what I learned from that mishap to fuel success.

When you put a great amount of energy and hope in a big project, you can be destroyed if you don't do it. But myself, I say: "To fail is only to see the way to fail."

I wouldn't be where I am now if I didn't fail ... a lot. The good, the bad, it's all part of the success equation.

You're never a failure until you fail to get up.

Where you succeed will never matter so much as where you fail.

Every now and then we're going to fail.

Some days you get up and put the horn to your chops and it sounds pretty good and you win. Some days you try and nothing works and the horn wins. This goes on and on and then you die and the horn wins.

I understood that I might fail, but I wouldn't let it happen because I changed my compass along the way.

Unless you stop trying, how can you not fail anymore?

The difference between those that succeed and those that fail is, those that succeeded tried.

Unless you're willing to fail miserably in the pursuit of your dreams, you'll never make it.