Henry Ford Quote about failure
Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. – Henry Ford
Tag: Henry Ford
50 Fitness Motivation
1. By exercise. I’ll tell you one thing, you don’t always have to be on the go. I sit around a lot, I read a lot, and I do watch television. But I also work out for two hours every day of my life, even when I’m on the road. – Jack LaLanne
2. The first wealth is health – Emerson
3. If you don’t do what’s best for your body, you’re the one who comes up on the short end. – Julius Erving
4. Those who do not find time for exercise will have to find time for illness. – Earl of Derby
5. Our health always seems much more valuable after we lose it. – Unknown
6. A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools. – Unknown
7. Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being, while movement and methodical physical exercise save it and preserve it. – Plato
8. It is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in vigor. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
9. Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year. – Franklin P. Adams
10. If I’d known I was going to live this long, I’d have taken better care of myself. – Eubie Blake
11. Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of, a blessing money can’t buy. – Izaak Walton
12. Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live. – JimRohn
13. The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results. – Anthony Robbins
14. The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best. – Thomas Jefferson
15. Time and health are two precious assets that we don’t recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted. – Denis Waitley
16. To get rich never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth. – Richard Baker
17. You can set yourself up to be sick, or you can choose to stay well. – Wayne Dyer
18. Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied. – Charles Caleb Colton
19. Health is the vital principle of bliss, and exercise of health. – James Thomson
20. The body of man is a machine which winds its own springs. – J. O. De La Mettrie
21. A man’s health can be judged by which he takes two at a time – pills or stairs. – Joan Welsh
22. Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity. – John F. Kennedy
23. Running is one the best solutions to a clear mind. – Sasha Azevedo
24. Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. – Goethe
25. The only disability in life is a bad attitude. – Scott Hamilton
26. It is remarkable how ones wits are sharpened by physical exercise. – Pliny the Younger
27. Exercise is good for your mind, body, and soul. – Susie Michelle Cortright
28. Wholesome exercise in the free air, under the wide sky, is the best medicine for body and spirit. – Sarah Louise Arnold
29. True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are united. – Alexander von Humboldt
30. Self-delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales. – Paul Sweeney
31. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach. – Arnold Schwarzenegger
32. Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. – Thomas Edison
33. You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She’s 97 today and we don’t know where the hell she is. – Ellen Degeneres
34. You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be. – David Viscott
35. The difference between try and triumph is just a little umph! – Marvin Phillips
36. The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It’s your mind you have to convince. – Vincent Lombardi
37. The groundwork of all happiness is health. – Leigh Hunt
38. The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win. – Roger Bannister
39. Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself. – Elie Wiesel
40. Mental attitude is more important than mental capacity. – Walter Dill Scott
41. My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging. – Hank Aaron
42. Whether you think you can or whether you think you can’t, you’re right! – Henry Ford
43. Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths instead of your weaknesses, on your powers instead of your problems. – Paul J. Meyer
44. Everyone has limits on the time they can devote to exercise, and crosstraining simply gives you the best return on your investment balanced fitness with minimum injury risk and maximum fun. – Paula Newby- Fraser
45. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles. – Alex Karras
46. It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get up. – Vince Lombardi
47. It’s the lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believe in myself. – Muhammad Ali
48. If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. – Bruce Lee
49. Exercise: you don’t have time not to. – Unknown
50. We do not stop exercising because we grow old – we grow old because we stop exercising. – Dr. Kenneth Cooper
Famous Short Quotes
“I am always doing things I can’t do. That is how I get to do them.” –Pablo Picasso
It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich. – Henry Ward Beecher
You can do anything, but not everything. —David Allen
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will. –W. Clement Stone
We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us. – Rabindranth Tagore
You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take. —Wayne Gretzky
He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home. –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Your work is to discover your work and then, with all your heart, to give yourself to it.” – Buddha
In order to be effective truth must penetrate like an arrow – and that is likely to hurt. – Wei Wu Wei
You must be the change you wish to see in the world. —Gandhi
“A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.” – Henry Ford
“As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, think big.” – Donald Trump
Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it. –Bill Cosby
“The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
What may be done at any time will be done at no time. – Scottish Proverb
“If you don’t have a competitive advantage, don’t compete.” – Jack Welch
“If your business keeps you so busy that you have no time for anything else, there must be something wrong either with you or with your business.” – William J. H. Boetcker
“If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to meet it!” – Jonathan Winters
A happy family is but an earlier heaven. –John Bowring
“In life, as in football, you won’t go far unless you know where the goalposts are.” – Arnold H. Glasgow
The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy is its inefficiency. – Eugene McCarthy
“Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.” – Albert Camus
We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. —Aristotle
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” – Thomas Edison
“You will not do incredible things without an incredible dream.” – John Eliot
Courage is a kind of salvation. –Plato
“I’ve been blessed to find people who are smarter than I am, and they help me to execute the vision I have.” – Russell Simmons
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. —André Gide
It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are. – e.e. cummings
“Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
25 of the Most Inspirational Quotes
. What you do today can improve all your tomorrows. ~Ralph Marston
2. Things do not happen. Things are made to happen. ~John F. Kennedy
3. What you get by achieving your goals is to as important as what you become by achieving your goals. ~Henry David Thoreau
4. To be a good loser is to learn how to win. ~Carl Sandburg
5. To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
6. When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on. ~Thomas Jefferson
7. Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. ~Henry Ford
8. Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. ~Albert Einstein
9. For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her. ~Charles De Gaulle
10. True happiness involves the full use of one’s power and talents. ~John W. Gardner
11. We make the world we live in and shape our own environment. ~Orison Swett Marden
12. What is called genius is the abundance of life and health. ~Henry David Thoreau
13. Wherever you are – be all there. ~Jim Elliot
14. Who seeks shall find. ~Sophocles
15. Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds. ~Gordon B. Hinckley
16. You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. ~C. S. Lewis
17. You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win. ~Ted Turner
18. You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do. ~Henry Ford
19. You can’t expect to hit the jackpot if you don’t put a few nickels in the machine. ~Flip Wilson
20. You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. ~Jack London
21. You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals. ~George S. Patton
22. Destiny is not a matter of chance; it’s a matter of choice. ~Anonymous
23. Excellence is to do a common thing, in an uncommon way. ~Booker T. Washington
24. Do not let what you can not do, interfere with what you can do. ~John Wooden
25. One man with courage makes a majority. ~Andrew Jackson
Friendship Quotes and Sayings
“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” ~ Martin Luther King Jr.
“All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.” ~Ella Wheeler Wilcox
“Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead; do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead. ~Anna Cummins
“My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.” ~Henry Ford
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares. ~Henri Nouwen
“With every friend I love who has been taken into the brown bosom of the earth a part of me has been buried there; but their contribution to my being of happiness, strength and understanding remains to sustain me in an altered world.” ~ Helen Keller
“One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.” ~ Euripides, Greek playwrite
“There are many types of ships. There are wooden ships ,plastic ships, and metal ships. But the best and most important types of ships are friendships.” ~Robert J. Badar JR.
“My best friend was born in a manger” ~Kimberly Dawn
“A true friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world has walked away.” ~Kimberly Dawn
“A friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else.” ~ Len Wein
“Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.” ~ Albert Camus
“A true friend is one who knows all about you, and still likes you.” ~Kimberly Dawn
“The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him, his own.” ~Benjamin Disraeli
“Scatter seeds of kindness everywhere you go; Scatter bits of courtesy….watch them grow and grow. Gather buds of friendship; Keep them till full-blown; You will find more happiness than you have ever known. ~ Amy R Raabe
“The most beautiful discovery that true friends can make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.” ~Elizabeth Foley
I’d rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.– E.E. Cummings
The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself. ~G. B. Shaw
“A true friend is the greatest of all blessings and the one which we take the least thought to aquire.” –Francois, Duc de la Rochefoucauld
“The only way to have a friend is to be one.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make everyday a holiday and celebrate just living.” –Amanda Bradley
A friend can tell you things you don’t want to tell yourself. ~Frances Ward Weller
“If I had one gift that I could give you, my friend, it would be the ability to see yourself as others see you, because only then would you know how extremely special you are.” ~B.A. Billingsly
We all need friends with whom we can speak of our deepest concerns, and who do not fear to speak the truth in love to us. ~Margaret Guenther
Ideas Quotes
You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I’ve only ever had one. – Albert Einstein
Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. – Albert Einstein
Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone. – Albert Einstein
Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation. – Mark Twain
You do things when the opportunities come along. I’ve had periods in my life when I’ve had a bundle of ideas come along, and I’ve had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I’ll do something. If not, I won’t do a damn thing. – Warren Buffett
To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical. – Thomas Jefferson
It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong. – Thomas Jefferson
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. – John F. Kennedy
Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger’s skin long before he has caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas. – John F. Kennedy
“I don’t know exactly where ideas come from. It’s just a matter of us figuring out how to receive the ideas waiting to be heard.” – Jim Henson
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. – Eleanor Roosevelt
Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening. – Coco Chanel
It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. – Aristotle
College isn’t the place to go for ideas. – Helen Keller
Or heritage and ideals, our code and standards – the things we live by and teach our children – are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings. – Walt Disney
At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top – I’m afraid that’s not quite right. – Bill Gates
Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas. – Henry Ford
Great ideas originate in the muscles. – Thomas A. Edison
God screens us evermore from premature ideas. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around – the music and the ideas. – Bob Dylan
The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use? – Dale Carnegie
Failure Quotes and Sayings
If we will learn what failure is, we will know what courage and success are. Now let’s read some wonderful failure quotes.
Just once it might be instructive to pretend you’re accepting an award for failure, just to see who you would thank. ~Robert Brault
In a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there particularly immortal about our own? ~G.K. Chesterton
They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward. ~Thomas Edison
There are defeats more triumphant than victories. ~Michel de Montaigne
Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God. ~Charles Horton Cooley
Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, “I have failed three times,” and what happens when he says, “I am a failure.” ~S.I. Hayakawa
A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience. ~Elbert Hubbard
No man is a failure who is enjoying life. ~William Feather
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. ~Henry Ford
Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times, you don’t want to set him down as a failure till he’s dead or loses his courage. ~George Horace Lorimer
You can’t have any successes unless you can accept failure. ~George Cukor
There is no failure. Only feedback. ~Robert Allen
Failure changes for the better, success for the worse. ~Lucius Annaeus Seneca
There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success. ~Max Beerbohm, Mainly on the Air, 1946
You always pass failure on your way to success. ~Mickey Rooney
Nothing fails like success because we don’t learn from it. We learn only from failure. ~Kenneth Boudling
Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
It is a mistake to suppose that people succeed through success; they often succeed through failures. ~Author Unknown
The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed. ~Lloyd Jones
What’s your favorite? :D
Top 20 Henry Ford Quotes
“Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.” – Henry Ford
“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” – Henry Ford
“Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right.” – Henry Ford
“If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.” – Henry Ford
“I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.” – Henry Ford
“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” – Henry Ford
“Don’t find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain” – Henry Ford
“It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.” – Henry Ford
“Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.” – Henry Ford
“There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can” – Henry Ford
“I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn’t need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.” – Henry Ford
“Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice.” – Henry Ford
“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.” – Henry Ford
“When I can’t handle events, I let them handle themselves”- Henry Ford
“Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind.” – Henry Ford
“There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.” – Henry Ford
“Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect makes a few men rich.” – Henry Ford
“You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.” – Henry Ford
“Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.” – Henry Ford
“There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.” – Henry Ford
Famous People Quotes #2
“The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.” – John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
“I’m living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.” – E. E. Cummings (1894-1962)
“Give me a museum and I’ll fill it.” – Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
“Assassins!” – Arturo Toscanini (1867-1957) to his orchestra
“I’ll moider da bum.” – Heavyweight boxer Tony Galento, when asked what he thought of William Shakespeare
“In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is.” – Yogi Berra
“I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” – Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
“Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.” – Rene Descartes (1596-1650), “Discours de la Methode”
“In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” – Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
“Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right.” – Henry Ford (1863-1947)
“Do, or do not. There is no ‘try’.” – Yoda (‘The Empire Strikes Back’)
“The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.” – Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
“Don’t stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.” – George Burns (1896-1996)
“I don’t know why we are here, but I’m pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)
“There are no facts, only interpretations.” – Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” – Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
“The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.” – Edsgar Dijkstra (1930-2002)
“C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg.” – Bjarne Stroustrup
“A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.” – Paul Erdos (1913-1996)
“Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.” – Paul Erdos (1913-1996)
Motivational Work Quotes
No bees, no honey; no work, no money. – Proverbs
Work is life, you know, and without it, there’s nothing but fear and insecurity. – John Lennon
Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed. – Vaclav Havel
The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it. – Sir William Osier
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. – Aristotle
Profit is a by-product of work; happiness is its chief product. – Henry Ford
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. – Richard Bach
When people go to work, they shouldn’t have to leave their hearts at home. – Betty Bender
Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun. – Colleen C. Barrett
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. – John Bay
Workaholics commit slow suicide by refusing to allow the child inside them to play. – Dr. Laurence Susser
Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity. – Alberta Flanders
Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results. – James Lane Allen
If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer