“Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.”
Henry Ward Beecher
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Failure Quotes
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · FAILURE
Failure Quotes
Read 200 of the best failure quotes about mistakes, setbacks, trying again and turning failure into success, from Keats, Edison, Whitman and more.
“Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.”
Henry Ward Beecher
TroubleGrowth
“What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better.”
Wendell Phillips
DefeatLearning
“Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wings. Only one thing endures, and that is character.”
Horace Greeley
CharacterPerspective
“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”
Theodore Roosevelt
TryingCourage
“This miry slough is such a place as cannot be mended; it is called the Slough of Despond.”
John Bunyan
DiscouragementJourney
“Who looks not before finds himself behind.”
George Herbert
PlanningForesight
“I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies.”
The Bible (Psalm 119:59)
ReflectionChanging Course
“To revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.”
The Bible (Isaiah 57:15)
RenewalHumility
“Cast away from you all your transgressions; and make you a new heart and a new spirit.”
The Bible (Ezekiel 18:31)
Fresh StartRenewal
“And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the Lord your God: for he is gracious and merciful.”
The Bible (Joel 2:13)
SincerityMercy
“Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.”
The Bible (1 Corinthians 10:12)
PrideCaution
“If a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness.”
The Bible (Galatians 6:1)
RestorationKindness
“For in many things we offend all.”
The Bible (James 3:2)
ImperfectionHumility
“Let us lay aside every weight, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us.”
The Bible (Hebrews 12:1)
PerseveranceLetting Go
“The Lord will perfect that which concerneth me.”
The Bible (Psalm 138:8)
TrustHope
“No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.”
The Bible (Luke 9:62)
CommitmentMoving Forward
“For when I am weak, then am I strong.”
The Bible (2 Corinthians 12:10)
WeaknessStrength
“Out of weakness were made strong.”
The Bible (Hebrews 11:34)
TransformationStrength
“For by thee I have run through a troop; and by my God have I leaped over a wall.”
The Bible (Psalm 18:29)
OvercomingVictory
“Arise and eat; because the journey is too great for thee.”
The Bible (1 Kings 19:7)
RestEncouragement
“If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength: but wisdom is profitable to direct.”
The Bible (Ecclesiastes 10:10)
Working SmarterWisdom
“He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing.”
The Bible (Psalm 126:6)
PerseveranceJoy
“Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; yet I will rejoice in the Lord.”
The Bible (Habakkuk 3:17-18)
FaithHard Times
“Fall seven times, stand up eight.”
Traditional Japanese Proverb
ResilienceNever Give Up