Quotes about failure

The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must prevail, though we erring mortals may fail to accurately perceive them in advance.

Abraham Lincoln

The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest. Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.

Thomas Jefferson

I think once a person realizes that they are every day either sowing into their life either potential success, or sowing into their life potential failure, they would all of a sudden go okay, I’ve got to figure out what I’m going to do.

John C. Maxwell

I’m not the sort of person who fears failure.

Richard Branson

I know not how to aid you, save in the assurance of one of mature age, and much severe experience, that you can not fail, if you resolutely determine, that you will not.

Abraham Lincoln

The fact of being an underdog changes people in ways that we often fail to appreciate. It opens doors and creates opportunities and enlightens and permits things that might otherwise have seemed unthinkable.

Malcolm Gladwell

We will fail God, we will fail our family, and our family might fail us at times, but God never fails us.

Nick Vujicic

Many years ago, when I was just about as complete a failure as one can become, I began to spend a good deal of time in libraries, looking for some answers. I found all the answers I needed in that golden vein of ore that every library has.

Og Mandino

Hope looks for unqualified success; but faith counts certainly on failure, and takes honorable defeat to be a form of victory.

Robert Louis Stevenson

To strip failure of its real emotional consequences is to scrub the concepts of grit and resilience of the very qualities that make them both so important-toughness, doggedness, and perseverance.

Brené Brown