We’ve all faced failure at some point in our lives; failure is a natural part of life and should be embraced as an opportunity for growth and self-discovery. These uplifting failure quotes will empower you to redefine your setbacks and transform your outlook on life’s challenges. With grit and determination, there’s no challenge you can’t overcome! Transform your defeats into opportunities for growth and success.
Best Failure Quotes
If you learn from defeat, you haven’t really lost. Zig Ziglar
I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. Thomas A. Edison
The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure. John C. Maxwell
Success is not final, failure is not fatal it is the courage to continue that counts. Winston S. Churchill
I never lose, I either win or learn. Nelson Mandela
I can’t give you a sure fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure try to please everybody all the time. Herbert Bayard Swope
Giving up is the only sure way to fail. Gena Showalter
Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever. Lance Armstrong Sally Jenkins
It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure. Bill Gates
You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It won’t happen automatically. You will have to rise up and say, I don’t care how hard this is, I don’t care how disappointed I am, I’m not going to let this get the best of me. I’m moving on with my life. Joel Osteen
Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure. John C. Maxwell
Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying. Roy T. Bennett
Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure. Napoleon Hill
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. Truman Capote
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. Winston Churchill
Have no fear of perfection you’ll never reach it. Salvador Dali
I don’t let failure defeat me; instead, I rise above it to make me stronger. Amanda Ray
It’s failure that gives you the proper perspective on success. Ellen DeGeneres
Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. Coco Chanel
I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. Thomas A. Edison
You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it. Maya Angelou
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement. C.S. Lewis
The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people. Randy Pausch
A minute’s success pays the failure of years. Robert Browning
To err is human, to forgive, divine. Alexander Pope
In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. Bill Cosby
My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them. Jack Kerouac
It’s not how far you fall, but how high you bounce that counts. Zig Ziglar
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. Theodore Roosevelt
Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable. Coco Chanel
A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all. Friedrich Nietzsche
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. Robert F. Kennedy
All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. Samuel Beckett
If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original. Ken Robinson
Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable. Coco Chanel
Try to understand paradoxical unity or duality of life. There is no meaning of Success; if failure does not exist. Invajy
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. Robert F. Kennedy
Failure isn’t fatal, but failure to change might be. John Wooden
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat. F. Scott Fitzgerald
There is no failure except in no longer trying. Chris Bradford
Life is full of screwups. You’re supposed to fail sometimes. It’s a required part of the human existance. Sarah Dessen
If you don’t try at anything, you can’t fail it takes back bone to lead the life you want. Richard Yates
Just because you fail once doesn’t mean you’re gonna fail at everything. Marilyn Monroe
When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important. Ellen DeGeneres
My past is everything I failed to be. Fernando Pessoa
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Together, they would watch everything that was so carefully planned collapse, and they would smile at the beauty of destruction. Markus Zusak
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 have failed by default. J. K. Rowling
I didn’t fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong. Benjamin Franklin
Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit. Napoleon Hill
I’m done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed. Ned Vizzini
When we give ourselves permission to fail, we, at the same time, give ourselves permission to excel. Eloise Ristad
All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride. Sophocles
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 T. Kiyosaki
I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being forgive me rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger. J.K. Rowling
Everything you want is on the other side of fear. Jack Canfield
Do not let arrogance go to your head and despair to your heart; do not let compliments go to your head and criticisms to your heart; do not let success go to your head and failure to your heart. Roy T. Bennett
Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success. I’ve met people who don’t want to try for fear of failing. J.K. Rowling
We are all failures at least the best of us are. J.M. Barrie
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence. Colin Powell
If you fell down yesterday, stand up today. H.G. Wells
What matters is this Being fearless of failure arms you to break the rules. In doing so, you may change the culture and just possibly, for a moment, change life itself. Malcolm Mclaren
I’d rather be partly great than entirely useless. Neal Shusterman
I don’t believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process. Oprah Winfrey
Try again. Fail again. Fail better. Samuel Beckett
We’re born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure. Whoopi Goldberg
You’re not obligated to win. You’re obligated to keep trying. To the best you can do everyday. Jason Mraz
I’ve probably earned the right to screw up a few times. I don’t want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about. Emma Watson
If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original. Ken Robinson
It’s only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you’re not expressing the utmost of your human experience. Lupita Nyong’o
Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth. Jules Verne
Failure expands your learning curve required for success. Invajy
If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. Henry David Thoreau
Failure doesn’t kill you it increases your desire to make something happen. Kevin Costner
Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again. Henry Ford
Don’t think of it as failure. Think of it as time released success. Robert Orben
Failure is a bend in the road, not the end of the road. Learn from failure and keep moving forward. Roy T. Bennett
Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up. Chinese proverb
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 T. Kiyosaki
Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again. Nelson Mandela
The one who falls and gets up is stronger than the one who never tried. Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying. Roy T. Bennett
If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success. James Cameron
The phoenix must burn to emerge. Janet Fitch
Fear regret more than failure. Taryn Rose
Success is determined not by whether or not you face obstacles, but by your reaction to them. And if you look at these obstacles as a containing fence, they become your excuse for failure. If you look at them as a hurdle, each one strengthens you for the next. Ben Carson
No human ever became interesting by not failing. The more you fail and recover and improve, the better you are as a person. Ever meet someone who’s always had everything work out for them with zero struggle? They usually have the depth of a puddle. Or they don’t exist. Chris Hardwick
Failure doesn’t define you. It’s what you do after you fail that determines whether you are a leader or a waste of perfectly good air. Sabaa Tahir
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows. Buddha
Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life. J.K. Rowling
I’d rather be partly great than entirely useless. Neal Shusterman
When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important. Ellen DeGeneres
We are all failures at least the best of us are. J.M. Barrie
If at first you don’t succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried. Steven Wright
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing. Henry Ford
Success, after all, loves a witness, but failure can’t exist without one. Junot Díaz
Success is not final, failure is not fatal it is the courage to continue that counts. Winston Churchill
Failures are the stairs we climb to reach success. Roy T. Bennett
There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure. Paulo Coelho
How much you can learn when you fail determines how far you will go into achieving your goals. Roy T. Bennett
Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever. Lance Armstrong
Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will. Suzy Kassem
Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure. George Eliot
I advise you to stop sharing your dreams with people who try to hold you back, even if they’re your parents. Because, if you’re the kind of person who senses there’s something out there for you beyond whatever it is you’re expected to do if you want to be extraa ordinary you will not get there by hanging around a bunch of people who tell you you’re not extraordinary. Instead, you will probably become as ordinary as they expect you to be. Kelly Cutrone
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail. Confucius
Don’t let mental blocks control you. Set yourself free. Confront your fear and turn the mental blocks into building blocks. Dr. Roopleen
Anyone who attempts is not a failure. Sarah Dessen
Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don’t. Thomas A. Edison
If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative. Woody Allen
The end of a relationship is not always a failure. Sometimes all the love in the world is not enough to save something. In these cases, it is not a matter of fault from either person. Some things cannot be, it’s as simple as that. Ashly Lorenzana
You make mistakes. Mistakes don’t make you. Maxwell Maltz
I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion. Yohji Yamamoto
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. Albert Einstein
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing. Henry Ford
No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within. Eleanor Roosevelt
All the time you’re saying to yourself, I could do that, but I won’t, which is just another way of saying that you can’t. Richard P. Feynman
Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. Winston Churchill
I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others. Amelia Earhart
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
You always pass failure on your way to success. Mickey Rooney
Failure is constructive feedback that tells you to try a different approach to accomplish what you want. Idowu Koyenikan
If you fail, never give up because fail means First Attempt In Learning. APJ Abdul Kalam
I am not concerned that you have fallen I am concerned that you arise. Abraham Lincoln
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. Truman Capote
Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again. Most of us adults are so afraid, so cautious, so safe, and therefore so shrinking and rigid and afraid that it is why so many humans fail. Most middle aged adults have resigned themselves to failure. Malcolm X
Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. Coco Chanel
Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit. Napoleon Hill
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. Theodore Roosevelt
I was never afraid of failure; for I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest. John Keats
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat. F. Scott Fitzgerald
You tried to help the people of the market. You mostly failed. This is life. The longer you live, the more you fail. Failure is the mark of a life well lived. In turn, the only way to live without failure is to be of no use to anyone. Trust me, I’ve practiced. Brandon Sanderson
My past is everything I failed to be. Fernando Pessoa
In every way that counted, I failed him. Sarah J. Maas
Most great people have achieved their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure. Napoleon Hill
A bad day for your ego is a great day for your soul. Jillian Michaels
Failure is another stepping stone to greatness. Oprah Winfrey
The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried. Stephen McCranie
Try again. Fail again. Fail better. Samuel Beckett
Each mistake teaches you something new about yourself. There is no failure, remember, except in no longer trying. It is the courage to continue that counts. Chris Bradford
All my successes have been built on my failures. Benjamin Disraeli
It is said we learn more from our failures than our successes. Holly Black