Failure and Setbacks Quotes

"The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is."

"If you look at great human civilizations, from the Roman Empire to the Soviet Union, you will see that most do not fail simply due to external threats but because of internal weakness, corruption, or a failure to manifest the values and ideals they espouse."

"All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure."

"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."

"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently."

"Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure."

"A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success."

"No man is a failure who is enjoying life."

"If something's important enough, you should try. Even if - the probable outcome is failure."

"Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble."

"They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?"

"True leaders don't invest in buildings. Jesus never built a building. They invest in people. Why? Because success without a successor is failure. So your legacy should not be in buildings, programs, or projects; your legacy must be in people."

"I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate."

"A minute's success pays the failure of years."

"If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate."

"I thank God for my failures. Maybe not at the time but after some reflection. I never feel like a failure just because something I tried has failed."

"We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success."

"If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure."

"The failure to invest in youth reflects a lack of compassion and a colossal failure of common sense."

"I don't lose any sleep at night over the potential for failure. I cannot even spell the word."

"I'm not going to get somewhere and say, 'OK, I'm done.' Success is never final; I'll just keep on going. The same way as failure never being fatal. Just keep going. I'm going to the stars and then past them."

"There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self."

"Ergonomics is about designing for failure modes and extremes: how things break under repetition, stress or other limits. And the goal of ergonomic designis to create an alignment between the user's limits, the thing you're designing, and how people will ideally use that thing."

"Engineering is achieving function while avoiding failure."

"The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed."

"The thing I always say to people is this: 'If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.'"

"Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes."

"There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period."

"Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure."

"Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure."

"Striving for success is healthy - but believing you need to succeed the first time around may backfire. Mentally strong people believe failure is part of the process toward a long journey to success. By viewing failure as a temporary setback, they're able to bounce back and move forward with ease."

"Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins."

"War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination."

"Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day."

"In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure."

"People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure."

"We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery."

"It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail."

"There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object."

"The woman is a gentle, loving bond who encourages, consoles, builds, reconciles, and makes all things new and vibrant. The woman is strength in time of suffering, courageous in failure, intuitive in time of danger. A woman is ingenuous when all fails, resourceful in times of want, and a true helpmate for man."

"One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won't have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it."

"The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil."

"Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed."

"Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another."

"Being a pathfinder is to be willing to risk failure and still go on."

"A famous man once said, 'A sure formula for failure is to try and please everyone.' Some might say I built a career on doing just the opposite of pleasing everyone."

"There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house."

"There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose."

"Don't think of it as failure. Think of it as time-released success."

"You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk."