120 Quotes on Failure by Famous Personalities

One of the biggest fears people have in their lives is failure. But the truth is, no great success has ever been achieved without failure. Walt Disney, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein, and Steve Jobs all failed many times in their lives but are considered some of the most successful people. Here are some uplifting quotes on failure by famous personalities that will inspire you to get back up each time you fall.

Quotes On Failure by Famous Personalities

1. “Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.” – Suzy Kassem

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

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

4. “Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill

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

6. “There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.” – Tony Robbins

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

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

9. “Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.” – Benjamin Franklin

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

11. “Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.” – Zig Ziglar

12. “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

13. “For every failure, there’s an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.” – Mary Kay Ash

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

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

16. “Winners never quit and quitters never win.” – Vince Lombardi

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

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

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19. “Don’t be afraid of failure; be afraid of petty success.” – Maude Adams

20. “Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.” – Dale Carnegie

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

22. “Every adversity, every failure and every heartache carries with it the seed of an equivalent or a greater benefit.” – Napoleon Hill

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

24. “You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can because that’s where you will find success, on the other side of failure.” – Thomas Watson

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

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

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

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28. “It’s not how far you fall, but how high you bounce that counts.” – Zig Ziglar

29. “Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.” – John C. Maxwell

30. “You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.” – Richard Branson

31. “You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.” – Barack Obama

32. “There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.” – Paulo Coelho

33. “Giving up is the only sure way to fail.” – Gena Showalter

34. “I didn’t fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.” – Benjamin Franklin

35. “Every failure is a step to success.” – William Whewell

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

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

38. “Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don’t fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.” – Jim Rohn

39. “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

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

41. “I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.” – Bill Cosby

42. “My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.” – Abraham Lincoln

43. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” – Thomas A. Edition

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

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

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

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

48. “Remember that failure is an event, not a person.” – Zig Ziglar

49. “No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

50. “Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.” – George Edward Woodberry

51. “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

52. “Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.” – John C. Maxwell

53. “I never lose, I either win or learn.” – Nelson Mandela

54. “Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying.” – Roy T. Bennett

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“Don’t worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.” – Jack Canfield

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56. “Never feel shame for trying and failing for he who has never failed is he who has never tried.” – Og Mandino

57. “Do not let arrogance go to your head and despair to your heart; do not let compliments go to your head and criticisms to your heart; do not let success go to your head and failure to your heart.” – Roy T. Bennett

58. “All my successes have been built on my failures.” – Benjamin Disraeli

59. “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

60. “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

61. “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

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62. “Failure is success in progress.” – Albert Einstein

63. “A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.” – Elbert Hubbard

64. “Without failure there is no achievement.” – John C. Maxwell

65. “Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up.” – Chinese Proverb

66. “Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.” – George Eliot

67. “Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.” – Lance Armstrong

68. “Failure is nothing more than learning how to win.” – Robin Sharma

69. “No matter what one does, regardless of failure or success, the experience is a form of success in itself.” – Jack Ma

70. “Most great people have achieved their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.” – Napoleon Hill

71. “If you accept failure as an opportunity to learn, it will change your whole perspective.” – Catherine Pulsifer

72. “Many people dream of success. To me, success can only be achieved through repeated failure and introspection.” – Soichiro Honda

73. “The master has failed more times than the beginner has tried.” – Stephen McCranie

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

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

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76. “Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.” – Confucius

77. “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

78. “If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative.” – Woody Allen

79. “The secret of life is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.” – Paulo Coelho

80. “Success or failure is caused more by mental attitude than by mental capacity.” – Walter Scott

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

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82. “Don’t think of it as failure. Think of it as time-released success.” – Robert Orben

83. “Never let success get to your head; never let failure get to your heart.” – Anonymous

84. “I don’t believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.” – Oprah Winfrey

85. “Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.” – Colin Powell

86. “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

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

88. “Failure is an attitude, not an outcome.” – Harvey MacKay

89. “The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.” – Elbert Hubbard

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

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91. “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

92. “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

93. “There is no failure except in no longer trying.” – Elbert Hubbard

94. “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

95. “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

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96. “If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success.” – James Cameron

97. “Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn’t work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.” – Roger ven Oech

98. “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

99. “Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is 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

100. “There are no failures – just experiences and your reactions to them.” – Tom Krause

101. “Life is full of screwups. You’re supposed to fail sometimes. It’s a required part of the human existance.” – Sarah Dessen

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

103. “If you aren’t making mistakes, you aren’t taking enough risks.” – Debbie Millman

104. “If you aren’t experiencing failure, it means you are failing.” – Lance Allred

105. “Failure doesn’t kill you… it increases your desire to make something happen.” – Kevin Costner

106. “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

107. “I don’t let failure defeat me; instead I rise above it to make me stronger.” – Amanda Ray

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“In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.” – Bill Cosby

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109. “Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.” – Napoleon Hill

110. “If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original.” – Ken Robinson

111. “But instead of spending our lives running towards our dreams, we are often running away from a fear of failure or a fear of criticism.” – Eric Wright

112. “You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.” – Beverly Sills

113. “If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.” – H.G. Wells

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

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

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

117. “There is no thing as failure, only learning experiences.” – Anonymous

118. “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

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

120. “One who fears failure limits his activities.” – Henry Ford

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