65 Inspirational Failure Quotes to Upgrade Your Version

Failure is one of the major worries people have in life. Failure seems to be more widely publicized than achievement. At the very least, that is how we perceive it. Every time we have unorthodox ideas, we worry about them, try to avoid them, and doubt ourselves.

The basic fact is, however, that no significant accomplishment has ever been attained without failure. This shows that failure can result in priceless lessons that help you succeed in the future.

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65 Best Failure Quotes

Others worry that they might never “make it” pursuing their passions because they are frightened they won’t succeed if they try something new. Many people are prevented from taking action that can help them advance and fulfill their potential because of their fear of failing. Have a look at these Failure Quotes about life.

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20 Failure Quotes on Life

1. “Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.” – Coco Chanel

2. “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

3. “Don’t bury your failures, let them inspire you.” – Robert Kiyosaki

4. “Everything you want is on the other side of fear.” – Jack Canfield

5. “It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.” – Bill Gates

6. “You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with joyful confidence.” – George Eliot

7. “An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he’s in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.”– Charles F. Kettering

8. “Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.” – Donald Trump

9. “When we give ourselves permission to fail, we, at the same time, give ourselves permission to excel.”– Eloise Ristad

10. “Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.”– Napoleon Hill

11. “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” – Albert Einstein

12. “Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.”– C. S. Lewis

13. “Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” — Winston Churchill

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

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

16. “Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.” ― Truman Capote

17. “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

18. “We’re born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as a failure.” – Whoopi Goldberg

19. “There is nothing as a failure, only learning experiences.” – Anonymous

20. “Failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success.” – Anonymous

10 Failure Quotes about Life

21. “Don’t live the same day over and over again and call that a life. Life is about evolving mentally, spiritually, and emotionally.” – Germany Kent

22. “You are right, I do fall down a lot. But that wouldn’t be true if I never stood back up.” – Richelle E. Goodrich

23. “All of us learned how to walk by failing.” – J.R. Rim

24. “Just because you fail once doesn’t mean you’re gonna fail at everything.” – Marilyn Monroe

25. “When setbacks arise – and they will from time to time – regroup, recharge, refocus and refine.” – Rasheed Ogunlaru

26. “Everybody, at some point in their life, has fallen down and not felt like getting back up, but you have to, no matter how difficult it is.” – Charlie Hunnam

27. “Trust is the angels smiling when I’m crying because they see the other side of the world I haven’t come around to yet.” – Helen Edwards

28. “No matter how dysfunctional your background, how broke or broken you are, where you are today, or what anyone else says, YOU MATTER, and your life matters!” – Germany Kent

29. “When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.” – Les Brown

30. “Life is designed to knock you down. It will knock you down time and time again, but it doesn’t matter how many times you fall – it matters how many times you get back up.” – Lilly Singh

20 Quotes on Failure

31. “Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” – Robert F. Kennedy

32. “When real people fall down in life, they get right back up and keep walking.” – Sarah Jessica Parker

33. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that count.” – Winston Churchill

34. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas A. Edison

35. “Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.” – Og Mandino

36. “Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.” – Napoleon Hill

37 “Success is measured by how high you bounce when you hit bottom” – George S. Patton

38. “It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”― Theodore Roosevelt

39. “Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail.”– Confucius

40. “Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.”- Richard Branson

41. “There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.” – Brene Brown

42. “I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.” —Michael Jordan

43. “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.” – Samuel Beckett

44. “It’s failure that gives you the proper perspective on success.” – Ellen DeGeneres

45. “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson

46. “Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.” – Nelson Mandela

47. “If you didn’t succeed, it’s just as important to keep in mind that there has never been a success story without failure and lessons along the way.” – Eric Christian

48. “When everything seems to be going against you remember that an airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” – Henry Ford

49. “Winners never quit. And quitters never win.” – Vince Lombardi

50. “There is no doubt in my mind that there are many ways to be a winner, but there is really only one way to be a loser and that is to fail and not look beyond the failure.” – Kyle Rote Jr

15 Quotes about Failure

51. “One fails forward toward success.” – Charles Kettering

52. “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

53. “The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.” – Henry Ford

54. “Fear regret more than failure.” – Taryn Rose

55. “Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.” – Shah Rukh Khan

56. “I’ve failed over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.” – Michael Jordan

57. “Honesty is the fastest way to prevent a mistake from turning into a failure.” – James Altucher

58. “Failure is enriching. It’s also important to accept that you’ll make mistakes—it’s how you build your expertise. The trick is to learn a positive lesson from all of life’s negative moments.” – Alain Ducasse

59. “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

60. “We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes.” – Arianna Huffington

61. “An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.” – Edwin Land

62. “Do not fear mistakes.” – Benjamin Franklin

63. “Success is not built on success. It’s built on failure. It’s built on frustration. Sometimes it’s built on catastrophe.” – Sumner Redstone

64. “Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.” – Henry Ward Beecher

65. “Failure doesn’t mean you are a failure, it just means you haven’t succeeded yet.” – Robert H. Schuller

Learn from failures

Failure is a certainty for everyone at some point in their lives. Learning from your mistakes is the simplest method to overcome failure. Every setback presents a chance to get closer to success.

It’s up to you to pick yourself up every time you fail at something, even though it’s not easy.

These encouraging quotations about failing should have inspired you to stand up as soon as you can.