35 Inspirational and Powerful Quotes About Failure | Today’s society is obsessed with success and achievement, yet failure is invariably avoided and feared. As a result, I have collated “35 Inspirational and Powerful Quotes About Failure” to emphasise that failure is actually a necessary stepping stone to achieving success.
Undoubtedly, it is easy to celebrate and potentially share success. However, it is tough to deal with failure, often because of the sense of defeat and negativity associated with it.
In these challenging times, it seems that COVID has exasperated a sense of failure for many. With many losing jobs and goals and dreams extinguished or put on hold.
Notwithstanding, there is strong evidence that failure can build resilience. Resilient people can often derive meaning from failure and use it as an opportunity to learn, often achieving even greater success.
In summary, you will inevitably experience failure in the pursuit of any success. And the truth is that no great success was ever achieved without failure. I hope you enjoy this “35 Inspirational and Powerful Quotes About Failure” collection that will inspire you to look at failure differently.
“What would you be glad you did – even if you failed?” – Brené Brown
“Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You’re thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn’t at all. You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember, that’s where you’ll find success. On the far side.” – Thomas John Watson, Sr.
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“Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result. It’s vulnerability that breeds with self-doubt and then is escalated, often deliberately, by fear.” – Michelle Obama
“It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.” – Bill Gates
“Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire.” – Oprah Winfrey
“You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.” – Barack Obama
“Always aim high, work hard, and care deeply about what you believe in. And, when you stumble, keep faith. And, when you’re knocked down, get right back up and never listen to anyone who says you can’t or shouldn’t go on.” – Hillary Clinton
“I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate” – George Burns
“Those who truly fail in my eyes are the ones who never try at all. The ones who sit on the couch and whine and moan and wait for the world to change for them.” – Sarah Dessen
“Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.”- Napoleon Hill
“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 fail by default.” – J.K. Rowling
“Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.” – James A. Michener
“Courage allows the successful woman to fail and learn powerful lessons, from the failure. So that in the end, she didn’t fail at all.” – Maya Angelou
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
“I really think a champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall.” – Serena Williams
“Success or failure is caused more by mental attitude than by mental capacity.” – Walter Scott
“Think like a queen. A queen if not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness.” – Oprah Winfrey
“All people fail at certain instances in their lives, the only thing that makes them different is how they manage to stand up or how they choose to fail again.” – Unknown
“Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.” – George Edward Woodberry
“Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.” – William Saroyan
“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
“Don’t fear failure — not failure, but low aim is the crime. In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail.” – Bruce Lee
“Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.” – Dale Carnegie
“You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.” – Richard Branson
“When it comes right down to it, I know of only one factor that separates those who consistently shine from those who don’t: The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.” – John Maxwell
“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” – Robert Kennedy
“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. That is why I succeed.” — Michael Jordan
“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” – Thomas Edison
“When we give ourselves permission to fail, we, at the same time, give ourselves permission to excel.” ― Eloise Ristad
“Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. It is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead-end street.” – William A. Ward
“It is a mistake to suppose that people succeed through success; they often succeed through failures.” – Unknown
“Failure is an inescapable part of life and a critically important part of any successful life.” – Tal Ben-Shahar
“Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.” – Michael Korda
“Failure is hard. But turn those failures into learning experiences, so that you’ll look back and be happy that you failed, because you gained more knowledge from that experience. Sometimes, it’s simply an indication to change your strategy instead of giving up completely.” – Albert Rogers
“Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.” – C. S. Lewis
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