100 Failure Quotes for Your Bounce Back
“Failures
are finger posts on the road to achievement.”
C. S. Lewis
“I
can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.”
Michael Jordan
“No
man ever achieved worthwhile 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
“Ever
tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.”
Samuel Beckett
“The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.”
Buddha
“An an inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he’s in. He treats his
failures simply as practice shots.”
Charles F.
Kettering
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fail.”
Confucius
“Failure
is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.”
Henry Ford
“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
“A man may fail many times but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame
somebody else.”
John Burroughs
“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
“Anyone
who attempts is not a failure.”
Sarah Dessen
“The
master has failed more times than the beginner has tried.”
Stephen Mc Cranie
“Failure
is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”
Truman Capote
“Failure
is success in progress.”
Albert Einstein
“No
man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“Failure
should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is a delay, not defeat. It
is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only
by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.”
Denis Waitley
“If
you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above
everyone else’s success.”
James Cameron
“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
“You
make mistakes. Mistakes don’t make you.”
Maxwell Maltz
“Success
is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.”
Shah Rukh Khan
“To
be wrong is nothing unless you continue to remember it.”
Confucius
“Anyone
who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
Albert Einstein
“Try
a thing you haven’t done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it.
Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like
it or not.”
Virgil Thomson
“When
we give ourselves permission to fail, we, at the same time, give ourselves
permission to excel.”
Eloise Ristad
“Part
of being a man is learning to take responsibility for your successes and for
your failures. You can’t go blaming others or being jealous. Seeing somebody
else’s success as your failure is a cancerous way to live.”
Kevin Bacon
“A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely
foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.”
Douglas Adams
“Failure
isn’t fatal, but failure to change might be.”
John Wooden
“I’ve
come to believe that all my past failure and frustrations were actually laying
the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living
I now enjoy.”
Anthony Robbins
“Failure
after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good
enough to be called a failure.”
George Eliot
“A man may fall many times, but he won't be a failure until he says that someone
pushed him.”
Elmer G. Letterman
“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.”
George Bernard Shaw
“It’s
fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of
failure.”
Bill Gates
“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
“You
build on failure. You use it as a steppingstone. 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
“Failure
is an attitude, not an outcome.”
Harvey MacKay
“Doubt
kills more dreams than failure ever will.”
Suzy Kassem
“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
“I
don’t believe in failure. It is not a failure if you enjoyed the process.”
Oprah Winfrey
“There
is no such thing as failure, only results.”
Tony Robbins
“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
“What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what
happens? You make other mistakes, and when you have made all the mistakes you
possibly can without drowning and some of them many times over what do you
find? That you can swim? Well, life is just the same as learning to swim! Do
not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to
live!”
Alfred Adler
“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’ve
missed more than 9000 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
“Failure
is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.”
Napoleon Hill
“You’ll
always miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”
Wayne Gretzky
“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
“There
are no failures just experiences and your reactions to them.”
Tom Krause
“Success
isn’t permanent and failure isn’t fatal.”
Mike Ditka
“Success
is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.”
Winston Churchill
“Life
is full of screwups. You're supposed to fail sometimes. It's a required part of
the human existence.”
Sarah Dessen
“I
can't give you a surefire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for
failure: try to please everybody all the time.”
Herbert Bayard
Swope
“The best way out is always through.”
Robert Frost
“Just
because you fail once doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything.”
Marilyn Monroe
“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.”
Henry Ford
“Failure
is a detour, not a dead-end street.”
Zig Ziglar
“It
is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“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
“You
can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.”
Barack Obama
“If
you fell down yesterday, stand up today.”
H.G. Wells
“Many
of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to
success when they gave up.”
Thomas Edison
“Every
adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of a greater
or equal benefit.”
Napoleon Hill
“The biggest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that changing really quickly,
the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.”
Mark Zuckerberg
“There
is no failure except in no longer trying.”
Elbert Hubbard
“Don’t
worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.”
Jack Canfield
“All
my successes have been built on my failures.”
Benjamin Disraeli
“Success
depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation, there is sure
to be a failure.”
Confucius
“It's
not how far you fall, but how high you bounce that counts.”
Zig Ziglar
“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
“In
any case, you must not confuse a single failure with a final defeat.“
F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
Oliver Goldsmith
“Your dream doesn’t have an expiration date. Take a deep breath and try again.”
Unknown
“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
“The the greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will
make one.”
Elbert Hubbard
“If
you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you always got.”
Mark Twain
“Success
builds character, failure reveals it.”
Dave Checkett
“Everything
you want is on the other side of fear.”
Jack Canfield
“If
you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original.”
Ken Robinson
“Remember
that failure is an event, not a person.”
Zig Ziglar
“Most
great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their
greatest failure.”
Napoleon Hill
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