Failure Inspirational Quotes:

All my successes have been built on my failures.

- Benjamin Disraeli

topic: Failure, Failure Inspirational, Built

Don't worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try.

- Jack Canfield

source: Twitter post from Oct 08, 2015

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Inspiration And Life, Inspirational Success Failure

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

- Winston Churchill

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Daily Work, Going To College

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

- Denis Waitley

topic: Teacher, Failure, Saying Nothing, Failure In Life, Undertaker

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.

- George Burns

topic: Inspirational, Cute, Positive, Inspirational Success Failure, Spiritual Success

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

- Truman Capote

source: Truman Capote, M. Thomas Inge (1987). “Truman Capote: Conversations”, p.189, Univ. Press of Mississippi

topic: Inspirational, Success, Perseverance, Failure In Life, Inspirational Adversity

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

- Calvin Coolidge

source: Quoted in Quotable Calvin Coolidge, ed. Peter Hannaford (2001).

topic: Persistence, Men, World, Unsuccessful, Solved Problems

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

- Bertrand Russell

source: Eugénie de Guérin (1866). “Letters”, p.144

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Fear, Difficult Life, Knowledge And Wisdom

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

- Calvin Coolidge

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Strength, Unsuccessful, Solved Problems

If you're not failing, you're not trying anything.

- Woody Allen

topic: Failure, Trying, Learning From Mistakes, Failure In Life, Learned From Mistakes

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

- Thomas A. Edison

topic: Success, Educational, Failure, Infinite Intelligence, Failure In Life

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... The danger lies in refusing to face the fear, in not daring to come to grips with it. If you fail anywhere along the line it will take away your confidence. You must make yourself succeed every time. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

topic: Lying, Thinking, Growth, Overcoming Failure, Cancer And Hope

A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

- Georges Clemenceau

source: "Clemenceau, The Events of His Life as Told by Himself to His Former Secretary, Jean Martet". Book by Georges Clemenceau, 1930.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Fear, Failure In Life, Fear Of Failing

Show me a satisfied man, and I'll show you a failure.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Failure, Men, Infinite Intelligence, Failure In Life, Inspirational Success Failure

Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success.

- Robert Kiyosaki

topic: Inspirational, Success, Failure, Failure In Life, Inspirational Success Failure

No man is ever whipped until he quits - in his own mind.

- Napoleon Hill

topic: Failure, Men, Mind, Failure Inspirational, Failure Motivational

Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something.

- Morihei Ueshiba

source: Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.133, Shambhala Publications

topic: Inspiring, Success, Mistake, Dojo, Inspirational Success Failure

Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

- Virgil Thomson

topic: Inspirational, Fear, Failure, Overcoming Failure, Third Time

We are all failures - at least the best of us are.

- James M. Barrie

topic: Inspirational, Failure, Life Moves On, Failure Inspirational, No Failure

Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

- Brian Tracy

topic: Motivational, Eye, Goal, Hurdling Obstacles, Making A Fool Of Yourself

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

- Michael Jordan

source: "Nike Culture : The Sign of the Swoosh". Book by Robert Goldman, Stephen Papson (p. 49), 1998.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Favorite Sports, Best Success

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Life, Fear, Failure, Inspirational Death, Stanford University

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

- Napoleon Hill

topic: Success, Time, Mistake, Success Or Failure, Failure Inspirational

Remember that failure is an event, not a person.

- Zig Ziglar

topic: Love, Motivational, Family, Failure In Life, Sales Person

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

- Napoleon Hill

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Success, Inspirational Adversity, Inspirational Success Failure

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

- Michael Jordan

source: "I Can't Accept Not Trying : Michael Jordan on the Pursuit of Excellence". Book by Michael Jordan (p. 129), 1994.

topic: Motivational, Change, Basketball, Favorite Sports, Young Entrepreneurs

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

- Bill Gates

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational, Success, Motivation, Inspiring Business, Inspirational Success Failure

It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.

- Vince Lombardi

source: Vince Lombardi, Jr. (2012). “What It Takes to Be Number One”, p.31, Thomas Nelson Inc

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Inspirational Football, Softball Team

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

- Og Mandino

source: Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World”, p.25, Bantam

topic: Being Strong, Encouraging, Encouragement, Self Determination, Inspirational Determination

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

- Theodore Roosevelt

topic: Inspirational, Change, Positive, About Success, Failure In Life

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

- Frank Herbert

source: Frank Herbert (2010). “Heretics Of Dune: The Fifth Dune Novel”, p.10, Hachette UK

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Fear, Favourite Book, Overcoming Failure

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

- George Edward Woodberry

topic: Inspirational, Success, Motivational Sports, Inspirational Success Failure, Success Is Not Measured

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

- Napoleon Hill

topic: Motivational, Attitude, Acceptance, Inspirational Money, Inspirational Money Making

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

- Robert Kennedy

source: Robert F. Kennedy (1967). “To seek a newer world”, Doubleday Books

topic: Inspirational, Success, Failure, Journey To Success, Inspirational Achievement

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

- Vincent Van Gogh

source: Vincent van Gogh, Vincent Willem Gogh (1927). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1872-1886: With a Memoir by His Sister-in-law, J. Van Gogh-Bonger ...”

topic: Being Strong, Confidence, Courage, Failure In Life, Taking Risks

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Life, Positive, Happiness, Self Determination, Fear None

Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

- Coco Chanel

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Business Life, Failure In Life

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

- Dale Carnegie

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Good Morning, Improve Self Esteem, Inspirational Confidence

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

- Dale Carnegie

topic: Inspirational, Success, Encouraging, Try Again, Journey To Success

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

- Henry Ford

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Hurdling Obstacles, Making A Fool Of Yourself

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Failure In Life, My Mistakes, We All Make Mistakes, Overcoming Failure, Past Failures

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

- Bill Gates

topic: Inspirational, Success, Teacher, Young Entrepreneurs, Business Life

Failure is not the opposite of success; it's part of success.

- Arianna Huffington

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Opposites, Powerful Women, Successful Women, Business Woman, Overcoming Failure

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

- Bill Gates

topic: Leadership, Motivation, Business, Young Entrepreneurs, Business Life

Failure is blindness to the strategic element in events; success is readiness for instant action when the opportune moment arrives.

- Newell Dwight Hillis

source: Newell Dwight Hillis (1911). “The Contagion of Character: Studies in Culture and Success”

topic: Fear, Elements, Events, Inspirational Success Failure, Failure Inspirational

They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

- Thomas Bailey Aldrich

source: Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1911). “The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Poems”

topic: Fear, Failing, Fear Of Failing, Failure Inspirational

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Inspirational, Life, Success, Self-doubt, Misgivings

Half of the failures in life come from pulling one's horse when he is leaping.

- Thomas Hood

topic: Horse, Fear, Failure, Failure In Life, Failure Inspirational