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“Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.”

“We fail to see the purifying and refining effect wrought by the flames of adversity. These flames are not meant to consume but only to purify us. Disguised as adversity, blessings are showered upon us.”

Failing Effects Failure Blessing Adversity Flames Refining Purifying

Author:A. Theodore Tuttle

“We will make a great and awful mistake if we fail to settle Hebron, neighbor and predecessor of Jerusalem, with a large Jewish settlement, constantly growing and expanding, very soon. This will also be a blessing to the Arab neighbors. Hebron is worthy to be Jerusalem's sister.”

Ifs Mistake Growing Failing Blessing Worthy Neighbor Awful Settling Expanding Jerusalem Settlement Predecessors

Author:David Ben-Gurion

“Convinced that character is all and circumstances nothing, [the Puritan] sees in the poverty of those who fall by the way, not a misfortune to be pitied and relieved, but a moral failing to be condemned, and in riches, not an object of suspicion ... but the blessing which rewards the triumph of energy and will.”

Way Character Fall Energy Moral Poverty Failing Objects Circumstances Blessing Rewards Riches Convinced Triumph Misfortunes Suspicion Relieved Puritan

Book:Religion And The Rise Of Capitalism

Source: Religion And The Rise Of Capitalism

“Necessity is always the first stimulus to industry, and those who conduct it with prudence, perseverance and energy will rarely fail. Viewed in this light, the necessity of labor is not a chastisement, but a blessing,--the very root and spring of all that we call progress in individuals and civilization in nations.”

Firsts Light Individual Energy Nations Progress Failing Industry Civilization Blessing Spring Labor Roots Perseverance Prudence Stimulus Chastisement

Book:Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct

Source: Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct

“Other blessings may be taken away, but if we have acquired a good friend by goodness, we have a blessing which improves in value when others fail.”

Ifs May Values Taken Failing Blessing Goodness Good Friend

Author:William Ellery Channing

“God fails not to sow blessings in the furrows.”

God Failing Blessing

Book:The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ...: The rule and exercises of holy living and dying

Source: The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ...: The rule and exercises of holy living and dying

“If you have a napkin, you need another napkin to receive back all the blessings you'll get. And you keep giving. Then you need a towel to receive all the gifts. And you continue giving. Finally, you need a tablecloth. And you continue giving - not stupidly, but you give. And when you give, you finally have to move out and get a second house, and a third house and a fourth.It is a no - fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can't do anything with that except do it.”

Ifs Needs Giving Reality Moving House Teach Failing Blessing Thirds Fourth Towels Not Stupid Napkins Blessing You

Author:Maya Angelou

“Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.”

Children Might Age Failing Blessing Damnation

Book:Cordelia's Honor

Source: Cordelia's Honor

“As the strongest faith may be shaken, so the weakest, where truth is, is so far rooted that it will prevail. Weakness with watchfulness will stand, when strength with too much confidence fails. Weakness, with acknowledgement of it, is the fittest seat and subject for God to perfect His strength in; for consciousness of our infirmities drives us out of ourselves to Him in whom our strength lies.”

Source: Complete Works of Richard Sibbes: (7 Volume Set)