Henry Ford Quote about failure
Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. – Henry Ford
Tag: Opportunity
Creativity & Life Quotes
Luck is preparation meeting opportunity. – Adam Lyons
Any intelligent fool can make things better, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius, and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. – Albert Einstein
Success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan. – Unknown
You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred. – Woody Allen
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. – Leonardo da Vinci
The past is history. The future is a mystery. This moment is a gift. That’s why this moment is called the present. Enjoy it. – Allan Johnson
If you want to travel fast, travel alone. If you want to travel far, travel together. – African proverb
Most homes valued at over $250,000 have a library. That should tell us something. – Jim Rohn
The man is the head [of the family], but the woman is the neck. And she can turn the head any way she wants. – My Big Fat Greek Wedding
To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first. – William Shakespeare
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him. – Anonymous
Minds are like parachutes — they only function when open. – Thomas Dewar
Try not to become a man of success but a man of value. – Albert Einstein
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible. – Arthur C. Clarke
A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. – Chinese proverb
We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection. – Plato
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. – Albert Einstein
In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. – Bill Cosby
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation. – Pearl S. Buck
Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others. – Jonathan Swift
When faced with two choices simply toss a coin. It works not because it settles the question for you, but because in that brief moment when the coin is in the air, you suddenly know what you are hoping for. – Unknown
If you love two people at the same time, choose the second one, because if you really loved the first one you wouldn’t have fallen for the second. – Johnny Depp
In the pursuit of knowledge, something is added every day. In the pursuit of enlightenment, something is dropped every day. – Laozi
Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many. – Unknown
Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light. I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night. – Sarah Williams
When people see some things as beautiful, other things become ugly. When people see some things as good, other things become bad. – Laozi
Religion and Death Quotes
There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love. – Mother Teresa
The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. I mean, life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time. What do you get at the end of it? A Death! What’s that, a bonus? I think the life cycle is all backwards. You should die first, get it out of the way. Then you live in an old age home. You get kicked out when you’re too young, you get a gold watch, you go to work. You work forty years until you’re young enough to enjoy your retirement. You do drugs, alcohol, you party, you get ready for high school. You go to grade school, you become a kid, you play, you have no responsibilities, you become a little baby, you go back into the womb, you spend your last nine months floating… and you finish off as an orgasm. – George Carlin
Truth, in its struggles for recognition, passes through four distinct stages. First, we say it is damnable, dangerous, disorderly, and will surely disrupt society. Second, we declare it is heretical, infidelic and contrary to the Bible. Third, we say it is really a matter of no importance either one way or the other. Fourth, we aver that we have always upheld it and believed it. – Elbert Hubbard
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. – Voltaire
My country is the world, and my religion is to do good. – Thomas Paine
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. – Louis Hector Berlioz
Once the game is over, the King and the Pawn go back in the same box. – Italian Proverb
I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will continue. But much as I want to believe that, and despite the ancient and worldwide cultural traditions that assert an afterlife, I know of nothing to suggest that it is more than wishful thinking. The world is so exquisite with so much love and moral depth, that there is no reason to deceive ourselves with pretty stories for which there’s little good evidence. Far better it seems to me, in our vulnerability, is to look death in the eye and to be grateful every day for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides. – Carl Sagan
Which is it, is man one of God’s blunders or is God one of man’s? – Nietzsche
Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich. – Napoleon
The ink of the scholar is holier than the blood of the martyr. – Prophet Muhammad
I like your Christ; I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ. – Mohandas Gandhi
Lighthouses are more helpful then churches. – Benjamin Franklin
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. – George Bernard Shaw
Morality is doing what is right regardless of what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, regardless of what is right. – Anonymous
It is always darkest just before the day dawneth. – Thomas Fuller, 1650
Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end. – Unknown
Tony Robbins Quotes
There is no such thing as failure. There are only results. –Tony Robbins Quotes
Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach. –Tony Robbins Quotes
A real decision is measured by the fact that you’ve taken a new action. –Tony Robbins Quotes
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible. –Tony Robbins Quotes
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals – that is, goals that do not inspire them. –Tony Robbins Quotes
If there’s no action, you haven’t truly decided. –Tony Robbins Quotes
How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I’m committed to? –Tony Robbins Quotes
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck. –Tony Robbins Quotes
Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular. –Tony Robbins Quotes
It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute… that gives meaning to our lives. –Tony Robbins Quotes
Inspiring Life Quotes to Live By
1. “It’s better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.” –William Markiewicz
2. “Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life… Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated. Thus, everyone’s task is as unique as is his specific opportunity to implement it.” – Viktor Frankl
3. “Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.” –Kahlil Gibran
4. “One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon-instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.” – Dale Carnegie
5. “Challenges come so we can grow and be prepared for things we are not equipped to handle now. When we face our challenges with faith, prepared to learn, willing to make changes, and if necessary, to let go, we are demanding our power be turned on.” –Iyanla Vanzant
6. Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live. –Nicolas de Chamfort
7. “Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead; that is where your future lies.” –Ann Landers
8. “Circumstances and situations do color life but you have been given the mind to choose what the color shall be.” –John Homer Miller
9. “You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.” –Jiddu Krishnamurti
10. “Whatever you want in life, start today. Not tomorrow – today. Let it be a small beginning – a tiny beginning. Your happiness depends on starting today – every day.” –Jonathan Lockwood Huie
11. “The only difference between an extraordinary life and an ordinary one is the extraordinary pleasures you find in ordinary things.” –Veronique Vienne
12. “For most of life, nothing wonderful happens. If you don’t enjoy getting up and working and finishing your work and sitting down to a meal with family or friends, then the chances are you’re not going to be very happy. If someone bases his or her happiness on major events like a great job, huge amounts of money, a flawlessly happy marriage or a trip to Paris, that person isn’t going to be happy much of the time. If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.” –Andy Rooney
13. “The three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for.” –Addison
14. “Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson
15. “Life is not a journey to the grave with intentions of arriving safely in a pretty well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out and loudly proclaiming … WOW! What a ride!” –Unknown
16. “To live with the conscious knowledge of the shadow of uncertainty, with the knowledge that disaster or tragedy could strike at any time; to be afraid and to know and acknowledge your fear, and still to live creatively and with unstinting love: that is to live with grace.” –Peter Abrahams
17. “People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life… I think that what we’re really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.” –Joseph Campbell
18. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover” –Mark Twain
19. “Don’t be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of.” –Charles Richards
20. “Live life fully while you’re here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You’re going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process.” –Anthony Robbins
21. “It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived –forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.” –Soren Kierkegaard
22. “For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin – real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way. Something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.” –Fr. Alfred D’Souza
23. “I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.” –Jack London
24. “Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Appreciate your friends. Continue to learn. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is.” –Mary Anne Radmacher
25. “When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life.” –Greg Anderson
Earl Nightingale Quotes
We tend to live up to our expectations. –Earl Nightingale Quotes
Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career! –Earl Nightingale Quotes
Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service. –Earl Nightingale Quotes
We’re afraid, it’s because we don’t know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid. –Earl Nightingale Quotes
People with goals succeed because they know where they’re going. –Earl Nightingale Quotes
Our attitude towards others determines their attitude towards us. –Earl Nightingale Quotes
The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. –Earl Nightingale Quotes
Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn. –Earl Nightingale Quotes
All you have to do is know where you’re going. The answers will come to you of their own accord. –Earl Nightingale Quotes
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. –Earl Nightingale Quotes
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
Best of Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
“Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes
silly honest kind Emerson quotes“Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one’s self?” — Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes
“For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes
“The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes
“Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes
“Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes
“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes
“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes
“In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes
“Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God’s handwriting.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes
“People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes
“Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force – that thoughts rule the world.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes
“I will not hide my tastes or aversions. I will so trust that what is deep is holy, that I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever inly rejoices me, and the heart appoints” — Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes
“Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes
“None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes
“Be not the slave of your own past – plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes
“To laugh often and love much:
To win respect of intelligent people
And the affection of children;
To earn the approbation of honest critics
And endure the betrayal of false friends;
To appreciate beauty;
To find the best in others;
To give one’s self;
To leave the world a little better,
Whether by a healthy child,
A garden patch,
Or redeemed social condition;
To have played and laughed with enthusiasm
And sung with exultation;
To know even one life has breathed easier
Because you have lived…
This is to have succeeded.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes
10 Life Quotes
“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” — Dr. Seuss
“You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching,
Love like you’ll never be hurt,
Sing like there’s nobody listening,
And live like it’s heaven on earth.” — William W. Purkey
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” — Mae West
“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” — Robert Frost
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” — Oscar Wilde
“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.” — Douglas Adams
“It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.” — André Gide
“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.” — Anaïs Nin
“Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it.” — Mother Teresa
25 Motivational Quotes
1. Give me a stock clerk with a goal, and I will give you a man who will make history. Give me a man without a goal, and I will give you a stock clerk. ~J.C. Penny
2. Success…seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit. ~Conrad Hilton
3. Intolerance of your present creates your future. ~Mike Murdock
4. When they back the ‘hearse’ up to the front door, they are not making a practice run. ~Van Crouch
5. I can, therefore I am. ~Simone Weil
6. I don’t believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be. ~Ken Venturi
7. I’ve worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down. ~Mia Hamm
8. If you can dream it, you can do it. ~Walt Disney
9. If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much. ~Jim Rohn
10. It’s always too early to quit. ~Norman Vincent Peale
11. Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now. ~Denis Waitley
12. No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one. ~Jessica Savitch
13. One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests. ~Peter Marshall
14. Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door. ~Kyle Chandler
15. Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other. ~Walter Elliot
16. Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life. ~Jimmy Dean
17. Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines. ~Robert H. Schuller
18. Quality is not an act, it is a habit. ~Aristotle
19. Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way. ~Eileen Caddy
20. Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible. ~Tony Robbins
21. Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned. ~Peter Marshall
22. The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself. ~Mark Caine
23. The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. ~Thomas Paine
24. The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large. ~Confucius
25. The wise does at once what the fool does at last. ~Baltasar Gracian