Personal Failure Quotes:

It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.

- Roger Babson

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, About Success, Memorable Graduation

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

- B. F. Skinner

topic: Education, Perseverance, Real, Failure In Life, Do Not Give Up

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

For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

- Mary Kay Ash

source: Mary Kay Ash (1986). “Mary Kay”, Harper Perennial

topic: Inspiring, Success, Failure, Life Wisdom, Overcoming Challenges

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

- Zig Ziglar

topic: Inspirational, Death, Failure, Overcoming Failure, Personal Failure

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

- Confucius

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

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

- Confucius

source: As quoted in"Be Free!: Keys to Success and Happiness in Every Aspect of Your Life" by Slavica Bogdanov, (p. 45), October 12, 2012.

topic: Positive, Monday, Motivation, Inspirational Attitude, Keep A Positive Attitude

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

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

- Chris Bradford

topic: Inspirational, Failure, Trying, Just Give Up, Just Stay Strong

If the first plan which you adopt does not work successfully, replace it with a new plan; if this new plan fails to work, replace it in turn with still another, and so on, until you find a plan which does work. Right here is the point at which the majority of men meet with failure, because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

- Napoleon Hill

topic: Persistence, Men, Creating, Marketing And Sales, Failure In Life

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

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Inspirational, War, 4th Of July, Management Motivation, Inspirational Softball

Stringent standards of self-evaluation [can] make otherwise objective successes seem to be personal failures

- Albert Bandura

topic: Self, Evaluation, Standards, Personal Failure, Self Evaluation

Women tend to vote the economic interests of their families and to speak out on family economic issues. For men, there's often much more focus on the idea of personal failure: "If I'm not winning this great economic game, it must be my fault."

- Elizabeth Warren

source: Interview with Ruth Conniff, progressive.org. December 27, 2009.

topic: Winning, Men, Speaks Out, Personal Failure, Economic Issues

the knowledge of personal failure ... is the invaluable predicate of all honest compassion.

- Anne Truitt

topic: Failure, Compassion, Honest, Personal Failure

If you ever want to get a sense of your own personal failure, look at yourself trying to get across a point that nobody is listening to and the situation gets worse and worse.

- Robert Reich

topic: Listening, Trying, Want, Personal Failure

Our society teaches a woman at a certain age who is unmarried to see it as a deep personal failure. While a man at a certain age who is unmarried has not quite come around to making his pick.

- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

topic: Men, Age, Our Society, Unmarried, Personal Failure

constituted a critical lapse in judgement and a personal failure on my part for which I am solely responsable

- William J. Clinton

topic: Stupid, Humorous, Judgement, Personal Failure

Action learning particularly obliges subjects to become aware of their own value systems, by demanding that the real problems tackled carry some risk of personal failure.

- Reg Revans

topic: Real, Risk, Action, Personal Failure

In baseball, even the best hitters fail seven of ten times, and of those seven failures there are different reasons why. Some are personal failures, others are losses to the pitcher. You just get beat. In those personal failures, I felt I could have done better.

- Ichiro Suzuki

topic: Baseball, Loss, Different, Personal Failure

Indeed I did have a relationship with Miss Lewinsky that was not appropriate. In fact, it was wrong

- William J. Clinton

topic: Stupid, Humorous, Missing, Personal Failure

Control in modern times requires more than force, more than law. It requires that a population dangerously concentrated in cities and factorites, whose lives are filled qith cause for rebellion, be taught that all is right as it is. And so, the schools, the churches, the popular literature taught that to be rich was a sign of superiority, to be poor a sign of personal failure, and that the only way upward for a poor person was to climb into the ranks of the rich by extraordinary effort and extraordinary luck.

- Howard Zinn

topic: School, Law, Cities, Modern Times, Personal Failure

Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure.

- William J. Clinton

topic: Failure, Trying, Guarantees, Personal Failure

Meditation has made me happy, loving, and peaceful-but not every single moment of the day. I still have good times and bad, joy and sorrow. Now I can accept setbacks more easily, with less sense of disappointment and personal failure, because meditation has taught me how to cope with the profound truth that everything changes all the time.

- Sharon Salzberg

source: Sharon Salzberg (2010). “Real Happiness - Enhanced Ebook Edition: The Power of Meditation: A 28-Day Program”, p.6, Workman Publishing

topic: Disappointment, Single Mom, Profound, Personal Failure, Profound Truth

Everything you’ve told yourself you ought to do, your mind thinks you should do right now. Frankly, as soon add you have two things to do stored in your RAM, you’ve generated personal failure, because you can’t do two things at the same time. This produces an all-pervasive stress factor whose source can’t be pin-pointed.

- David Allen

topic: Stress, Thinking, Two, Personal Failure

To be truthful, some writers stop you dead in your tracks by making you see your own work in the most unflattering light. Each of us will meet a different harbinger of personal failure, some innocent genius chosen by us for reasons having to do with what we see as our own inadequacies. The only remedy to this I have found is to read a writer whose work is entirely different from another, though not necessarily more like your own—a difference that will remind you of how many rooms there are in the house of art.

- Francine Prose

topic: Art, Differences, Light, Personal Failure, Harbinger

Failure is a big part of a free market's success. People fail to live up to their potential, or to carry out all their good intentions, in all kinds of economic and political systems. Capitalism makes them pay a price for their failures, while socialism, feudalism, fascism and other systems enable personal failures, especially by those at the top, to be ignored.

- Thomas Sowell

topic: People, Political, Pay, Personal Failure, Feudalism

At the end of the day I have always seen the end of my relationships as a personal failure. There is nothing ever pretty in saying goodbye.

- Elisabetta Canalis

topic: Goodbye, Saying Goodbye, The End Of The Day, Personal Failure

Surprisingly, it's forgiveness, not guilt, that increases accountability. Researchers have found that taking a self-compassionate point of view on a personal failure makes people more likely to take personal responsibility for the failure than when they take a self-critical point of view. They also are more willing to receive feedback and advice from others, and more likely to learn from the experience.

- David D. Burns

source: Source: time.com

topic: Responsibility, Self, Views, Personal Responsibility, Personal Failure