150 Failure Quotes to Look at it with Different Perspective

Failure is more talked about and memorized than success due to human tendency of focusing spotlight more on negative parts than the positive ones. People may be fearful with failure but the effortless truth is – no great success has been ever achieved without failure. Look at the failure with different perspective. Failures are the intermediate steps towards the journey of success. Every failure has some new life lesson to teach you and add on your experience to make your ride more powerful on the path of success. Today, I want to share with you collection of failure quotes that will definitely inspire you to look at the failure with different perspective. These will help you in motivating yourself to bounce back from failure in life.

Throughout history, there have been thousands of famous failures. The master of “trial and error” Thomas Edison, The genius Albert Einstein, Michael Jordan, Stephen King , Abraham Lincoln , Walt Disney, Henry Ford, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs all failed many times in their life; but are considered one the most successful persons in their area of work. Here are failure quotes from these successful people.

Failure Quotes

1. “Failures are foundation stones of the Success Forts” ~ Invajy

2. “Failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success.” ~ Arianna Huffington

3. “Failing to attempt is biggest failure of life.” ~ Invajy

4. “Failing to fail will never give you the real joy and happiness of success.” ~ Invajy

5. “Failure is success in progress” ~ Albert Einstein

6. “Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” ~ Henry Ford

7. “Try to understand paradoxical unity or duality of life. There is no meaning of “Success”; if “failure” does not exist.” ~ Invajy

8. “Everything you want is on the other side of fear.” ~ Jack Canfield.

9. “I don’t let failure defeat me; instead I rise above it to make me stronger” ~ Amanda Ray

10. “If you learn from defeat, you haven’t really lost.” ~ Zig Ziglar

11. “Giving up is the only sure way to fail.” ~ Gena Showalter
12. “It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure” ~ Bill Gates
13. “Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.” ~ John C. Maxwell
14. “Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.” ~ Napoleon Hill
15. “Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm” ~ Winston Churchill
16. “It’s failure that gives you the proper perspective on success.” ~ Ellen DeGeneres
17. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” ~ Thomas A. Edison
18. “Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.” ~ C.S. Lewis
19. “A minute’s success pays the failure of years.” ~ Robert Browning
20. “In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.” ~ Bill Cosby
21. “It’s not how far you fall, but how high you bounce that counts.” ~ Zig Ziglar
22. “Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.” ~ Coco Chanel
23. “Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” ~ Robert F. Kennedy
24. “If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original.” ~ Ken Robinson
25. “The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.”  ~  John C. Maxwell
26. “Failure isn’t fatal, but failure to change might be.” ~ John Wooden
27. “There is no failure except in no longer trying.” ~ Chris Bradford
28. “If you don’t try at anything, you can’t fail… it takes back bone to lead the life you want” ~ Richard Yates
29. “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
30. “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quotes on Failure

31. “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
32. “Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.” ~ Napoleon Hill
33. “When we give ourselves permission to fail, we, at the same time, give ourselves permission to excel.” ~ Eloise Ristad
34. “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
35. “I never lose, I either win or learn.” ~ Nelson Mandela
36. “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
37. “Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence” ~ Colin Powell
38. “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
39. “I don’t believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.” ~ Oprah Winfrey
40. “We’re born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure.” ~ Whoopi Goldberg
41. “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
42. “Never let success get to your head; never let failure get to your heart.”~ Anonymous
43. “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
44. “Failure expands your learning curve required for success.” ~ Invajy
45. “Failure doesn’t kill you…. it increases your desire to make something happen.” ~ Kevin Costner
46. “Don’t think of it as failure. Think of it as time-released success.” ~ Robert Orben
47. “Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up.” ~ Chinese proverb
48. “Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.” ~ Nelson Mandela
49. “If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success.” ~ James Cameron
    
50. “Fear regret more than failure.” ~ Taryn Rose
51. “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
52. “The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.” ~ Buddha
53. “I’d rather be partly great than entirely useless.” ~ Neal Shusterman
54. “We are all failures – at least the best of us are.” ~ J.M. Barrie
55. “The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.” ~ Henry Ford
56. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” ~ Winston Churchill
57. “There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.” ~ Paulo Coelho
58. “Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.” ~ Lance Armstrong
59. “Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.” ~ George Eliot
60. “Failure is giving up and not trying further. Keep on trying to reach your goal is part of success.” ~ Invajy

Quotes on Failing Fearlessly

61. “Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail.” ~ Confucius
62. “Anyone who attempts is not a failure.” ~ Sarah Dessen
63. “If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative.” ~ Woody Allen
64. “You make mistakes. Mistakes don’t make you.” ~ Maxwell Maltz
65. “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” ~ Albert Einstein
66. “No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
67.  “Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” ~ Winston Churchill
68. “Don’t worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.” ~ Jack Canfield
69. “You always pass failure on your way to success.” ~ Mickey Rooney
70. “If you fail, never give up because FAIL means – First Attempt In Learning” ~ APJ Abdul Kalam
71. “Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.” ~ Truman Capote
72. “Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. ” ~ Coco Chanel
73. “It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt
74. “Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
75. “My past is everything I failed to be.” ~ Fernando Pessoa
76. “Many people dream of success. To me, success can only be achieved through repeated failure and introspection.” ~ Soichiro Honda
77. “Failure is another stepping stone to greatness.” ~ Oprah Winfrey
78. “Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” ~ Samuel Beckett
79. “All my successes have been built on my failures.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
80. “Keep your head up in failure, and your head down in success.” ~ Jerry Seinfeld
81. “Failures are amplified by denying that they are failures.” ~ Mark Manson
82. “Failure is nothing more than learning how to win.” ~ Robin Sharma
83. “Always remember that failure is an event, not a person.” ~ Zig Ziglar
84. “I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.” ~ Michael Jordan
85. “If you aren’t experiencing failure, it means you are failing.” ~ Lance Allred
86. “Failure changes for the better, success for the worse.” ~ Seneca
87. “No matter what one does, regardless of failure or success, the experience is a form of success in itself.” ~ Jack Ma
88. “You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.” ~ Beverly Sills
89. “Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.” ~ Zig Ziglar
90. “If you aren’t making mistakes, you aren’t taking enough risks.” ~ Debbie Millman

Quotes about Failure

91. “The cost of failure is…learning.” ~ Neil Strauss
92. “A failure doesn’t mean you are unworthy, nor does it preclude success on the next try.” ~ Leonard Mlodinow
93. “Without failure there is no achievement.” ~ John C. Maxwell
94. “The best way out is always through.” ~ Robert Frost
95. “Victory has a hundred fathers, but failure is an orphan.” ~ John F. Kennedy
96. “When you fail to prepare, you’re preparing to fail.” ~ John Wooden
97. “Failure is an important part of your growth. Don’t be afraid to fail.” ~ Michelle Obama
98. “Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.” ~ Ralph Ellison
99. “In any case, you must not confuse a single failure with a final defeat.” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
100. “Losers quit when they fail. Winners fail until they succeed.” ~ Robert T. Kiyosaki
101. “You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.” ~ Richard Branson
102. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” ~ Thomas Edison
103. “A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.” ~ James Joyce
104. “My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
105. “Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.” ~ Mia Hamm
106. “Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.” ~ Og Mandion
107. “The secret of life is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.” ~ Paulo Coelho
108. “Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness.” ~ Oprah Winfrey
109. “Success or failure is caused more by mental attitude than by mental capacity.” ~ Walter Scott
110. “Failure is good as long as it doesn’t become a habit.” ~ Michael Eisner
111. “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.” ~ George Bernard Shaw
112. “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
113. “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.” ~ Samuel Beckett
114. “An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he’s in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.” ~ Charles F. Kettering
115. “When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.” ~ George Bernard Shaw
116. “A man may fail many times but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.” ~ John Burroughs
117. “The master has failed more times than the beginner has tried.” ~ Stephen McCranie
118. “Daring to fail is the beginning to success.” ~ Invajy
119. “To be wrong is nothing unless you continue to remember it.” ~ Confucius
120. “A man may fall many times, but he won’t be a failure until he says that someone pushed him.” ~ Elmer G. Letterman

Powerful Quotes on Failure

121. “Failure is a part of the process. You just learn to pick yourself back up.” ~ Michelle Obama
122. “Life is full of screwups. You’re supposed to fail sometimes. It’s a required part of the human existence.” ~ Sarah Dessen
123. “Failure is an attitude, not an outcome.” ~ Harvey MacKay
124. “Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.” ~ Suzy Kassem
125. “Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.” ~ Richard Branson
126. “Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
127. “There is no such thing as failure, only results.” ~ Tony Robbins
128. “Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.” ~ Napoleon Hill
129. “A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.” ~ John C. Maxwell
130. “There are no failures – just experiences and your reactions to them.” ~ Tom Krause
131. “Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.” ~ Winston Churchill
132. “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
133. “Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.” ~ John F. Kennedy
134. “Every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.” ~ Thomas A. Edison
135. “Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.” ~ Jim Rohn
136. “The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.” ~ Humphrey Davy
137. “Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition.” ~ Herbert Kaufman
138. “You will be tested. You won’t always succeed. But know that you have it within your power to try.” ~ Barack Obama
139. “I have failed many times, but I have never gone into the darkness of despair. I have learned from my failures and kept moving forward.” ~ A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
140. “Success is not always the result of hard work. Sometimes it’s the result of learning from failure.” ~ Mark Zuckerberg
141. “Failure is just another way to learn how to do something right.” ~ Marian Wright Edelman
142. “It is not the mistake that defines you, it’s how you respond to it.” ~ Todd Stocker
143. “No one is a failure until they stop trying.” ~ B.C. Forbes
144. “Every failure is a step to success.” ~ William Whewell
145. “It’s not how many times you fall that counts. It’s how many times you get back up.” ~ Vince Lombardi
146. ‘Successful people have failed more times than unsuccessful people have tried.” ~ Anonymous
147. “No one can defeat us unless we first defeat ourselves.” ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
148. “Don’t be afraid to fail. Be afraid not to try.” ~ Michael Jordan
149. “You have to be willing to fail, in order to succeed.” ~ Robert Kiyosaki
150. “If you’re not failing, you’re not growing.” ~ Ray Lewis

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