Failure is delay, but not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead-end street.

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

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.

We can throw stones, complain about them, stumble on them, climb over them, or build with them.

Failure is not fatal. Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. It should challenge us to new heights of accomplishments, not pull us to new depths of despair. From honest failure can come valuable experience.

Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.