To fail is not the end of your journey. You have to think positively and try new things that work. When you fail, think about it as an experience, learn from it, and do better next time. Even the most successful people now experience failure. May these quotes about failure and not giving up help you realize that failure will make you stronger. The lesson you've learned from failure will become a game-changer to your future success.
1. “What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.” – Oscar Wilde
2. “All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” – Samuel Beckett
3. “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
4. “Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.” – Zig Ziglar
5. “I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure which is: Try to please everybody.” – Herbert Bayard Swope
6. “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
7. “I was never afraid of failure; for I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.” – John Keats
8. “If you don’t try at anything, you can’t fail. It takes backbone to lead the life you want.” – Richard Yates
9. “Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.” – C. S. Lewis
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10. “There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve, the fear of failure.” – Paulo Coelho
11. “If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.” – Henry David Thoreau
12. “Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again.” – Henry Ford
13. “Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.” – Napoleon Hill
14. “Why are you going to choose failure when success is an option?” – Jillian Michaels
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15. “Failure is a bend in the road, not the end of the road. Learn from failure and keep moving forward.” – Roy T. Bennett
16. “You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It wont 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
17. “My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.” – Jack Kerouac
18. “I am struck by how sharing our weakness and difficulties is more nourishing to others than sharing our qualities and successes.” – Jean Vanier
19. “Failure? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.” – Dottie Walters
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20. “You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.” – Beverly Sills
21. “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
22. “It's failure that gives you the proper perspective on success.” – Ellen DeGeneres
23. “I never fail. It's just that the people around me succeed more than I.” – Carroll Bryant
24. “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
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25. “Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.” – Suzy Kassem
26. “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
27. “I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.” – Tony Robbins
28. “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 it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.” – Johnny Cash
29. “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
30. “Successful people have no fear of failure. But unsuccessful people do. Successful people have the resilience to face up to failure, learn the lessons and adapt from it.” – Roy T. Bennett
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31. “The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.” – Douglas Adams
32. “The person who failed often knows how to avoid future failures. The person who knows only success can be more oblivious to all the pitfalls.” – Randy Pausch
33. “Life is full of screw-ups, chucking another paper at the split-level before taking the corner. You're supposed to fail sometimes. It's a required part of the human existence.” – Sarah Dessen
34. “Being right keeps you in place. Being wrong forces you to explore.” – Steven Johnson
35. “Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
36. “He believed in himself, believed in his quixotic ambition, letting the failures of the previous day disappear as each new day dawned. Yesterday was not today. The past did not predict the future if he could learn from his mistakes.” – Daniel Wallace
37. “Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.” – J.K. Rowling
38. “Giving up is the only sure way to fail.” – Gena Showalter
39. “Be patient. Your skin took a while to deteriorate. Give it some time to reflect a calmer inner state. As one of my friends states on his Facebook profile: The true losers in life, are not those who try and fail, but those who fail to try.” – Jess C. Scott
40. “If failure has the strength to turn your life into bitterness itself, then patience has the strength to turn your life into the sweetest joy. Do not surrender to fate after a single failure. Failure, at most, precedes success.” – Sri Chinmoy
41. “Many times what we perceive as an error or failure is actually a gift. And eventually we find that lessons learned from that discouraging experience prove to be of great worth.” – Richelle E. Goodrich
42. “It's not how far you fall, but how high you bounce that counts.” – Zig Ziglar
43. “Because when you find something you love, you can’t quit. Every failure pushes you harder. It’s in your soul and in your heart.” – Becca Ritchie
44. “Failure is just another way to learn how to do something right.” – Marian Wright Edelman
45. “Failures are the stairs we climb to reach success.” – Roy T. Bennett
46. “The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried.” – Stephen McCranie
47. “Don't waste your time hating a failure. Failure is a greater teacher than success. Listen, learn, go on.” – Clarissa Pinkola Estés
48. “Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.” – Richard Branson
49. “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
50. “Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.” – George E. Woodberry
51. “Never feel shame for trying and failing for he who has never failed is he who has never tried.” – Og Mandino
52. “Failure is not the end. In fact it is the beginning of a beautiful journey.” – Jade Youssef
53. “It is not a failure to readjust my sails to fit the waters I find myself in.” – Mackenzi Lee
54. “Never mind those failures of yesterday. Each new day is a sequel of a wonderful life; gifted with hopes to succeed.” – Aniruddha Sastikar
55. “Failure is when you talk yourself out of becoming something amazing.” – Rudy Francisco
56. “Trying is fine. Failing is inevitable. Don’t let it devour you.” – Michelle Sagara
57. “What you perceive as a failure today may actually be a crucial step towards the success you seek. Never give up.” – Richelle E. Goodrich
58. “How we feel is not who we are. We might feel like failures, but as long as we are still trying, we are not failures. We are works in progress.” – Toni Sorenson
59. “I think for anyone to become good at something, they have to fail a lot too. And they have to be completely unafraid to fail or they'll never make it to the next level.” – Amy Schumer
60. “When we give ourselves permission to fail, we at the same time, give ourselves permission to excel.” – Eloise Ristad
61. “Never let success get to your head; never let failure get to your heart.” – Anonymous
62. “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
63. “Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.” – Coco Chanel
64. “Just because you fail once, doesn’t mean you’re gonna fail at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don’t, then who will, sweetie?” – Marilyn Monroe
65. “It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.” – Bill Gates
66. “Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.” – Nelson Mandela
67. “You always pass failure on your way to success.” – Mickey Rooney
68. “I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try.” – Nikki Giovanni
69. “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” – Albert Einstein
70. “Successful people don’t fear failure but understand that it’s necessary to learn and grow from.” – Robert Kiyosaki
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2. “All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” – Samuel Beckett
3. “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
4. “Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.” – Zig Ziglar
5. “I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure which is: Try to please everybody.” – Herbert Bayard Swope
6. “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
7. “I was never afraid of failure; for I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.” – John Keats
8. “If you don’t try at anything, you can’t fail. It takes backbone to lead the life you want.” – Richard Yates
9. “Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.” – C. S. Lewis
11. “If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.” – Henry David Thoreau
12. “Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again.” – Henry Ford
13. “Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.” – Napoleon Hill
14. “Why are you going to choose failure when success is an option?” – Jillian Michaels
16. “You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It wont 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
17. “My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.” – Jack Kerouac
18. “I am struck by how sharing our weakness and difficulties is more nourishing to others than sharing our qualities and successes.” – Jean Vanier
19. “Failure? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.” – Dottie Walters
21. “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
22. “It's failure that gives you the proper perspective on success.” – Ellen DeGeneres
23. “I never fail. It's just that the people around me succeed more than I.” – Carroll Bryant
24. “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
26. “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
27. “I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.” – Tony Robbins
28. “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 it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.” – Johnny Cash
29. “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
30. “Successful people have no fear of failure. But unsuccessful people do. Successful people have the resilience to face up to failure, learn the lessons and adapt from it.” – Roy T. Bennett
More Inspirational Quotes about Failure and Success
31. “The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.” – Douglas Adams
32. “The person who failed often knows how to avoid future failures. The person who knows only success can be more oblivious to all the pitfalls.” – Randy Pausch
33. “Life is full of screw-ups, chucking another paper at the split-level before taking the corner. You're supposed to fail sometimes. It's a required part of the human existence.” – Sarah Dessen
34. “Being right keeps you in place. Being wrong forces you to explore.” – Steven Johnson
35. “Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
36. “He believed in himself, believed in his quixotic ambition, letting the failures of the previous day disappear as each new day dawned. Yesterday was not today. The past did not predict the future if he could learn from his mistakes.” – Daniel Wallace
37. “Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.” – J.K. Rowling
38. “Giving up is the only sure way to fail.” – Gena Showalter
39. “Be patient. Your skin took a while to deteriorate. Give it some time to reflect a calmer inner state. As one of my friends states on his Facebook profile: The true losers in life, are not those who try and fail, but those who fail to try.” – Jess C. Scott
40. “If failure has the strength to turn your life into bitterness itself, then patience has the strength to turn your life into the sweetest joy. Do not surrender to fate after a single failure. Failure, at most, precedes success.” – Sri Chinmoy
41. “Many times what we perceive as an error or failure is actually a gift. And eventually we find that lessons learned from that discouraging experience prove to be of great worth.” – Richelle E. Goodrich
42. “It's not how far you fall, but how high you bounce that counts.” – Zig Ziglar
43. “Because when you find something you love, you can’t quit. Every failure pushes you harder. It’s in your soul and in your heart.” – Becca Ritchie
44. “Failure is just another way to learn how to do something right.” – Marian Wright Edelman
45. “Failures are the stairs we climb to reach success.” – Roy T. Bennett
46. “The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried.” – Stephen McCranie
47. “Don't waste your time hating a failure. Failure is a greater teacher than success. Listen, learn, go on.” – Clarissa Pinkola Estés
48. “Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.” – Richard Branson
49. “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
50. “Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.” – George E. Woodberry
51. “Never feel shame for trying and failing for he who has never failed is he who has never tried.” – Og Mandino
52. “Failure is not the end. In fact it is the beginning of a beautiful journey.” – Jade Youssef
53. “It is not a failure to readjust my sails to fit the waters I find myself in.” – Mackenzi Lee
54. “Never mind those failures of yesterday. Each new day is a sequel of a wonderful life; gifted with hopes to succeed.” – Aniruddha Sastikar
55. “Failure is when you talk yourself out of becoming something amazing.” – Rudy Francisco
56. “Trying is fine. Failing is inevitable. Don’t let it devour you.” – Michelle Sagara
57. “What you perceive as a failure today may actually be a crucial step towards the success you seek. Never give up.” – Richelle E. Goodrich
58. “How we feel is not who we are. We might feel like failures, but as long as we are still trying, we are not failures. We are works in progress.” – Toni Sorenson
59. “I think for anyone to become good at something, they have to fail a lot too. And they have to be completely unafraid to fail or they'll never make it to the next level.” – Amy Schumer
60. “When we give ourselves permission to fail, we at the same time, give ourselves permission to excel.” – Eloise Ristad
61. “Never let success get to your head; never let failure get to your heart.” – Anonymous
62. “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
63. “Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.” – Coco Chanel
64. “Just because you fail once, doesn’t mean you’re gonna fail at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don’t, then who will, sweetie?” – Marilyn Monroe
65. “It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.” – Bill Gates
66. “Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.” – Nelson Mandela
67. “You always pass failure on your way to success.” – Mickey Rooney
68. “I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try.” – Nikki Giovanni
69. “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” – Albert Einstein
70. “Successful people don’t fear failure but understand that it’s necessary to learn and grow from.” – Robert Kiyosaki
Share these Quotes on Failure with your friends, family, and loved ones to inspire them as well.