Past Failures Quotes:

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

- Colin Powell

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

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Journey To Success, Inspiring Business

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

- Thomas A. Edison

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, About Success, Innovation Inspiration

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Inspirational, Failure, Learning, Success Failure, Overcoming Failure

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

- Samuel Smiles

source: 1859 Self-Help, ch.11.

topic: Inspirational, Wisdom, Mistake, Making Mistakes And Learning From Them, My Mistakes

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.

- Johnny Cash

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

topic: Life, Bullying, Mistake, Dwell On The Past, My Mistakes

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

topic: Men, Differences, Three, Success Failure, Past Failures

Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

- Charles J. Givens

topic: Inspirational, Loss, Past, Past Failures

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.

- Calvin Coolidge

topic: Motivational, Wisdom, Loss, Unsuccessful, Perserverance

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

- J. K. Rowling

topic: Inspirational, Success, Graduation, Failure In Life, Inspirational Harry Potter

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

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

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

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

Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure.

- Thomas Watson, Jr.

topic: Encouraging, Simple, Giving, About Success, Failure In Life

Failure is not a crime. Failure to learn from failure is.

- Walter Wriston

topic: Failure, Crime, Learning From Failure, Mistakes And Learning, Past Failures

Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them. They stay focused on their past successes rather than their past failures, and on the next action steps they need to take to get them closer to the fulfillment of their goals rather than all the other distractions that life presents to them.

- Jack Canfield

topic: Successful, Past, People, Past Failures, Past Success

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

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.

- William Saroyan

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Wisdom, Wisdom And Experience, Past Failures

If at first you don't succeed, You're not an Alpha

- Lisi Harrison

topic: Firsts, Succeed, Alphas, Success Failure, Succes

If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.

- Woody Allen

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Innovation And Leadership, Innovation Inspiration

If at first you don't succeed, you're obviously not me.

- Madonna Ciccone

topic: Success, Inspirational Sports, Firsts, Past Failures, Failure Motivational

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

Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

- Sivananda

topic: Inspiring, Depression, Attitude, You Will Regret, Overcoming Depression

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

- Theodore Roosevelt

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Source Of Life, Knowing Things

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

topic: Motivational, Leadership, Perseverance, Inspiring Presidential, Experimentation

The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.

- Charles Kettering

topic: Success, Failure, Science, Past Failures, Trying And Failing

You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success - on the far side of failure.

- Thomas J. Watson

topic: Inspirational, Success, Mistake, Making Mistakes And Learning From Them, About Success

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

- George Bernard Shaw

source: George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.2451, e-artnow

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Source Of Life, Innovation And Business

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

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

- Tony Robbins

topic: Motivational, Break Up, Breakup, Inspirational Success Failure, Success Failure

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

- Samuel Beckett

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Encouraging, Self Determination, Try Again

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

- Winston Churchill

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

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Pushing On, Source Of Life

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

- Confucius

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Best Success, Marathon Runners

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

- Thomas A. Edison

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Positive, Daily Work, Social Entrepreneurship

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

- Henry Ford

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Inspiring Business, Inspirational Success Failure

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

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

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

- Elbert Hubbard

source: Elbert Hubbard (1916). “The Philosophy of Elbert Hubbard”

topic: Positive, Business, Educational, Mistakes And Learning, Past Failures

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

- C. S. Lewis

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

If at first you don't succeed, you can always become an ultramarathoner.

- Bruce Fordyce

topic: Firsts, Succeed, Success Failure, Past Failures, Failure Motivational

When one door closes another door opens. Usually a refrigerator.

- Bonnie McFarlane

topic: Break Up, Encouraging, Broken Heart, Live In The Now, Life Opportunity

To almost no one's surprise, Astrid said, "Dune, by Frank Herbert. 'I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that bring 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.'" She and Lana together spoke the last phrase of the incantation. "'Only I will remain.

- Michael Grant

topic: Eye, Past, Mind, Favourite Book, Have No Fear

I try to incorporate faith every day, to not remind myself of past failures, to learn how to forgive and to trust the future.

- Vanessa L. Williams

topic: Past, Forgiving, Trying, How To Forgive, Past Failures

Some of the same self-certified smart people, who preached about mushroom clouds and weapons of mass destruction, are once again trying to stampede us into war. They seem to think only with their guns. To those who want to shoot first and ask questions later in Iraq, I join in a firm 'No!' We've been there and done that, and America is still paying for their past failure.

- Lloyd Doggett

topic: Smart, Military, War, Past Failures, Stampede

Past failures unlock future successes

- Richard Branson

topic: Past, Future Success, Past Failures

The future of Conservatism lies in our beliefs and values, not by throwing them away. We need to shed associations that bind us to past failures, but hold faith with those things that make us Conservatives.

- Iain Duncan Smith

source: "Full text: statement by Iain Duncan Smith", www.theguardian.com. June 19, 2001.

topic: Faith, Lying, Past, Beliefs And Values, Past Failures

Every person, if he is to have mental health and live successfully, must move away from past failures and mistakes and go forward without letting them be a weight upon him. The art of forgetting is absolutely necessary.

- Norman Vincent Peale

topic: Art, Mistake, Moving, Past Failures