Failure and Setbacks Quotes

"For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour."

"The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top."

"One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king."

"We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse."

"There is no failure except in no longer trying."

"Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure."

"The only risk of failure is promotion."

"They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure."

"My reputation grows with every failure."

"You gotta lose 'em some of the time. When you do, lose 'em right."

"Man is not made for defeat."

"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery."

"The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life."

"The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure."

"I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy."

"The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best."

"If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure."

"Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do."

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

"Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures."

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

"The wisest of the wise may err."

"Failure is impossible."

"We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing."

"We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes."

"The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide."

"Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure."

"One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them."

"Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day."

"There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows."

"To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives."

"Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence."

"Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure."

"When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work."

"It would be great to be able to pass on to someone all of the successes, the failures, and the knowledge that one has had. To help someone, avoid all the fire, pain and anxiety would be wonderful."

"Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances."

"Do not let your ambitions become a sanctuary for your failures."

"Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed."

"All the world loves a good loser."

"It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world."

"Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough."

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

"You have to be able to accept failure to get better."

"Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure."

"Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them."

"Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success."

"Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it."

"Trump's biggest failure as a political leader is that he sees the worst in people, and he encourages the worst in people."

"Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest."

"The success and the failure are not my concern, but His."