Failure Quotes

"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently."

- Henry Ford

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

"Don’t fear failure. Fear being in the exact same place next year as you are today."

- Unknown

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

- Thomas Edison

"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor."

- Truman Capote

"It is impossible to live without failing at something unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all."

- J.K. Rowling

"Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up."

- Chinese Proverb

"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."

- Albert Einstein

"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail."

- Confucius

"Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success."

- Napoleon Hill

"Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat."

- Denis Waitley

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."

- Robert F. Kennedy

"Failure is success in progress."

- Albert Einstein

"If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original."

- Ken Robinson

"Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, only this time more wisely."

- Henry Ford

"Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again."

- Richard Branson

"Failure is not the opposite of success; it’s part of success."

- Arianna Huffington

"You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone."

- Johnny Cash

"Failure is the foundation of success, and the means by which it is achieved."

- Lao Tzu

"When we give ourselves permission to fail, we, at the same time, give ourselves permission to excel."

- Eloise Ristad

"Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit."

- Napoleon Hill

"It’s not how far you fall, but how high you bounce that counts."

- Zig Ziglar

"There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period."

- Brené Brown

"Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."

- Winston Churchill

"Failure doesn’t mean the game is over, it means try again with experience."

- Unknown

"Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street."

- Zig Ziglar

"Failure is simply practice for success."

- Unknown

"The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows."

- Buddha

"You don’t drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there."

- Edwin Louis Cole

"Failure is a part of life. If you don’t fail, you don’t learn. If you don’t learn, you’ll never change."

- Unknown

"There are no failures—just experiences and your reactions to them."

- Tom Krause

"Failure is a bruise, not a tattoo."

- Jon Sinclair

"Failure is proof that you’re trying."

- Unknown

"Failure is a stepping stone to greatness."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Failure is an event, not a person."

- Zig Ziglar

"You only fail when you stop trying."

- Unknown

"Every failure is a step closer to success."

- Unknown

"Mistakes are proof that you are trying."

- Unknown

"Failure is the price we pay for the journey to success."

- Unknown

"The road to success is paved with failures."

- Unknown

"Embrace failure as a friend—it teaches lessons that success can’t."

- Unknown

"Failure tests the strength of your will."

- Unknown

"Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald