Quotes About Why we sometimes fail

"If we start without confidence, we have already lost half the battle and we bury our talents."

— Evangelii Gaudium: The Joy of the Gospel,'Pope Francis

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."

— Thomas A - Edison

"Many so-called failures represent only a temporary defeat that may prove to be a blessing in disguise."

— Napoleon Hill

"Mistakes: it's not the Failures that define us so much as how we respond to them."

— Farnam Street

"Challenges are disguised opportunities"

— Unknown

"The No. 1 reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbours."

— Napoleon Hill

"Changing our perspective is often the key to finding success in seeming failure. Optimistic thinking has sometimes gotten a bad rap as being unrealistic, but research has found that we can indeed live happier, healthier, and more successful lives if we can learn to discover the opportunities in problems. These problems then become merely challenging opportunities that we can turn to our advantage. They provide opportunities for personal growth and can stimulate our creativity for finding better ways to live."

— C. Manz

"Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts."

— John Wooden, Coach, 10x National Champion

"No bird soars in a calm."

— Wilbur Wright

"Self-distrust is the cause of most of our failures. They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers."

— Christian Bovee

"It is only through seeming failure that most of life's greatest successes are achieved. Usually, failure or success is almost entirely in the eye of the beholder."

— C. Manz

"A mistake is an event, the full benefit of which has not yet been turned to your advantage."

— Ed Land

"Most people fail, not through lack of education, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless will."

— Orison Sweet Marden

"He who wrestles with us, strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skills. Our antagonist is our helper."

— Edmund Burke

"Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes."

— Oscar Wilde

"I've found that nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks. Fall forward. Every failed experiment is one step closer to success. You've got to take risks. You will fail at some point in your life. Accept it. You will lose - You will embarrass yourself. You will suck at something. There is no doubt about it. Never be discouraged. Never look back. Give everything you've got. And when you fall throughout life, fall forward."

— Denzel Washington, University of Pennsylvania

"Losers quit when they fail. Winners fail until they succeed."

— Robert Kiyosaki

"In truth, the only difference between those who have failed and those who have succeeded lies in the difference of their habits. Good habits are the key to all success. Bad habits are the unlocked door to failure."

— Og Mandino

"Don't worry about failure; you only have to be right once."

— Drew Houston, Dropbox founder and CEO

"Ninety-nine percent of the failures came from people who have the habit of making excuses."

— George Washington Carver

"Whatever the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly."

— Richard Bach

"I was set free, because my greatest fear had already been realized, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life."

— J. K. Rowling

"Silver is purified in fire and so are we.' It is in the most trying times that our real character is shaped and revealed."

— Helen Keller

"By failing to prepare, you ae preparing to fail."

— Benjamin Franklin

"Adversity brings out our hidden potential."

— Jeff Keller

"If you haven't failed at least three times today you haven't tried anything new."

— Carole Hyatt

"The most important thing in the life of every man and every woman is not that they should never fall along the way. The important thing is always to get back up, not to stay on the ground licking your wounds."

— Pope Francis, The name of God is Mercy

"If seeds in the black earth can turn into such beautiful roses, what might not the heart of man become in its long journey toward the stars?"

— G. K Chesterton

"We can't solve our problems from the same level of thinking that created them. Human development is about progressively seeing more."

— Unknown

"Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are."

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

"One real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, loses and disappointments."

— Joseph Addison

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

— Winston Churchill

"What is the difference between an obstacle and an opportunity? Our attitude toward it. Every opportunity has a difficulty, and every difficulty has an opportunity."

— J. Sidlow Baxter

"One who fears failure limits his activities."

— Henry Ford

"You fail all the time, but you aren't a failure until you start blaming someone else."

— Bum Phillips, Head Coach

"It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure."

— Bill Gates

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."

— Albert Einstein

"People who have a growth mind-set seek challenges and learning opportunities."

— Carol Dweck

"Mistakes have the power to turn you into something better than you were before."

— Kushandwizdan

"The only real failures occur when we back away from worthwhile challenges without even trying or when we refuse to learn from our setbacks."

— Charles Manz

"You cannot pluck roses without fear of thorns."

— Benjamin Franklin

"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one."

— Elbert Hubbart

"Failure are divided into two classes: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought."

— John Charles Salak

"Progress requires setbacks; the only sure way to avoid failure is not to try."

— Henry Spencer

"Mistakes should be examined, learned from, and discarded; not dwelled upon and stored."

— Tim Fargo

"We fail more often by timidity than by over-daring."

— David Grayson

"A man's mistakes are his portals of discovery."

— James Joyce

"I am fascinated with the way Henry Ford approached life. He was one of those people who didn't take a job because he knew how to do it, he often took jobs because he didn't know how to do them, and they were opportunities to learn. It's a very gutsy way to learn."

— Bob Casey, retired curator of transportation, Ford

"Learn from Failure. Failure presents an opportunity for continued learning and growth while success can lead to complacency and stagnation."

— C. Manz

"Nothing of what has happened to me, or to anyone, has value unless it is a preparation for what lies ahead."

— Eleanor Roosevelt

"We need to teach a highly educated person that it is not a disgrace to fail, and that he must analyse every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts of the world."

— Charles F Kettering

"We must embrace intermittent discomfort. Our human instinct is to avoid pain at any cost, but growth requires pushing past our current comfort zone."

— Unknown

"The raw elements of gold and silver are refined and purified by intense heat. The same is true for you and me. To attain the purest beauty of who we truly are, we all must be forged by fire. The struggles and trials we suffer and learn from are all part of the refining process towards the priceless beauty that's within us all. God knows that at your soul's enduring core lies the truest of all treasures."

— Jason Versey

"Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability."

— Flower A Newhouse

"As I look back on my life, I realize that every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being re-directed to something better."

— Steve Maraboli

"Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also."

— Carl Jung

"The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.'What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble that can gather strength from distress and grow."

— Thomas Paine

"Change our perspective: learn to discover the opportunities in problems"

— Unknown

"Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to common sense."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles, and less-than-perfect conditions. So what? Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident, and more and more successful."

— Mark Victor Hansen

"People with growth mind-set don't see failure as a sign of inadequacy and are happy to take risks."

— Carol Dweck

"Sometimes struggles are exactly what we need in our lives - If God allowed us to go through our lives without any obstacles, it would cripple us. We would not be as strong as what we could have been. We could never fly!"

— Cindy Trimm