100+ Inspiring Failure Quotes to Motivate and Empower You
In our journey through life, failure is an inevitable companion that shapes and defines us. It serves as both a harsh teacher and a powerful motivator, reminding us that success is often forged in the fires of adversity. Through the lens of failure quotes, we can find inspiration to rise, wisdom to learn, and courage to persist. These curated quotes help us reframe our understanding of failure, transforming it from a source of frustration into a wellspring of growth and renewal. As you explore each subtitle, let these words resonate with you, offering solace in moments of despair and encouragement when the path forward seems uncertain.
"Failure is not the opposite of success; it's part of success." - Arianna Huffington
"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." - Henry Ford
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." - Thomas Edison
"Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill
"Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever." - Lance Armstrong
"A man may fall many times but he won't be a failure until he says someone pushed him." - Elmer G. Letterman
"There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period." - Brené Brown
"Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement." - C.S. Lewis
"What is the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable?" - John Green
"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor." - Truman Capote
"You always pass failure on your way to success." - Mickey Rooney
"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." - Nelson Mandela
"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently." - Henry Ford
"Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable." - Coco Chanel
"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit." - Napoleon Hill
"We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success." - Samuel Smiles
"Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat." - Denis Waitley
"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly." - Robert F. Kennedy
"Failures are lessons in disguise." - Robert Kiyosaki
"Mistakes are the portals of discovery." - James Joyce
"The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same." - Colin R. Davis
"Success is 99 percent failure." - Soichiro Honda
"If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative." - Woody Allen
"Never let success get to your head and never let failure get to your heart." - Ziad K. Abdelnour
"It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up." - Vince Lombardi
"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail." - Confucius
"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does." - William James
"Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again." - Richard Branson
"The phoenix must burn to emerge." - Janet Fitch
"Success is how high you bounce when you hit the bottom." - George S. Patton
"Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th." - Julie Andrews
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed." - Theodore Roosevelt
"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals." - Zig Ziglar
"I never dreamed about success. I worked for it." - Estee Lauder
"I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying." - Michael Jordan
"Failure is success in progress." - Albert Einstein
"Believe you can and you're halfway there." - Theodore Roosevelt
"Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure." - George Eliot
"Once you choose hope, anything’s possible." - Christopher Reeve
"The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary." - Vidal Sassoon
"Success is not built on success. It’s built on failure. It’s built on frustration. Sometimes it’s built on catastrophe." - Sumner Redstone
"Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, only this time more wisely." - Unknown
"When we give ourselves permission to fail, we, at the same time, give ourselves permission to excel." - Eloise Ristad
"You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take." - Wayne Gretzky
"Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great." - John D. Rockefeller
"Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough." - Og Mandino
"There is no failure except in no longer trying." - Elbert Hubbard
"The only way to do great work is to love what you do." - Steve Jobs
"I’ve missed more than 9,000 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
"I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward." - Thomas Edison
"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 them." - Johnny Cash
"Failure is just another way to learn how to do something right." - Marian Wright Edelman
"If you’re going through hell, keep going." - Winston Churchill
"Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don't have the strength." - Theodore Roosevelt
"A winner is just a loser who tried one more time." - George M. Moore Jr.
"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream." - C.S. Lewis
"Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently." - Henry Ford
"Failure is another stepping stone to greatness." - Oprah Winfrey
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." - Winston Churchill
"It’s failure that gives you the proper perspective on success." - Ellen DeGeneres
"Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success." - Dale Carnegie
"Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing." - Winston Churchill
"Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm." - Abraham Lincoln
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." - Confucius
"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently." - Henry Ford
"It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default." - J.K. Rowling
"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." - Thomas Edison
"Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success." - C.S. Lewis
"Every failure is a step to success." - William Whewell
"You have to be able to accept failure to get better." - LeBron James
"The greatest glory in living lies not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail." - Nelson Mandela
"Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure." - George Edward Woodberry
"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail." - Confucius
"Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again." - Richard Branson
"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly." - Robert F. Kennedy
"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed." - Theodore Roosevelt
"Success is not just about making money. It's about making a difference." - Unknown
"The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces." - Will Rogers
"Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable." - Coco Chanel
"It’s not how far you fall, but how high you bounce that counts." - Zig Ziglar
"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does." - William James
"You don’t drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there." - Ed Cole
"The secret of life is to fall seven times and to get up eight times." - Paulo Coelho
"Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. It is a delay, not a defeat." - Denis Waitley
"You must do the thing you think you cannot do." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently." - Henry Ford
"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop." - Confucius
"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
"The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph." - Thomas Paine
"Your true success in life begins only when you make the commitment to become excellent at what you do." - Brian Tracy
"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it." - Henry Ford
"Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle." - Napoleon Hill
"The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible." - Charles Kingsleigh
"In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure." - Bill Cosby
"Success is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." - Confucius
"Failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success." - Arianna Huffington
"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop." - Confucius
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying." - Roy T. Bennett
"The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows." - Buddha
"Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I’ll try again tomorrow." - Mary Anne Radmacher
"It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up." - Babe Ruth
"Fall seven times, stand up eight." - Japanese Proverb
"Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." - Oliver Goldsmith
"I never lose. I either win or learn." - Nelson Mandela
"Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom." - George S. Patton
"It’s fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure." - Bill Gates
"Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm." - Winston S. Churchill
"Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure." - Paulo Coelho
"Failure doesn’t mean the game is over, it means try again with experience." - Len Schlesinger
"Don’t worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try." - Jack Canfield
"There is no failure except in no longer trying." - Elbert Hubbard
"The secret of success is not in avoiding failure but in knowing how to capitalize on it." - Unknown
"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." - John Powell
"The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried." - Stephen McCranie
"Failure is success if we learn from it." - Malcolm Forbes
"Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure." - George Eliot
"You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated." - Maya Angelou
