Failure Quotes

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena."

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

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

"The obstacle in the path becomes the path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition."

"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."

"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time."

"Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations."

"Getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again."

"There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure."

"Optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure."

"Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness."

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

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

"Pain + Reflection = Progress."

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

"Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure."

"We are all failures—at least the best of us are."

"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."

"There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time."

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

"Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success."

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

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

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

"If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough."

"99 percent of failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses."

"Fail early, fail often, but always fail forward."

"My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have something, he would be disappointed."

"Most people fail in life because they major in minor things."

"We often treat quitting as a failure, but quitting is a skill."

"Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to being a winner."

"If you can’t successfully do something, it’s because you have a mental model that’s wrong."

"Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success."