Hmm, what should I guilt-trip myself about today? Nothing. It's easy to get your head all wrapped up in the emotional response you have to something. Blaming yourself for knowing better but still making a mistake. When we fail to meet someone's expectations. When we fail to keep the promises we've made. However, guilt-tripping yourself will never help one overcome an issue or a defeat. Forgive yourself and move on. You know you can do better. You deserve better.
Whether it's googling quotes about failure or motivational quotes, it's a step forward. We, humans, are interesting live beings. We know failure is a part of life, perhaps a blessing in disguise. Yet, we would rather read failure quotes from a total stranger online, who lived decades ago, to give us hope and a breath of fresh air to move forward. And that's perfectly fine. We often forget that we are not the only ones in this world who occasionally feel the ground slipping under one's feet. And interestingly enough, if we find someone who relates to what we are experiencing, it makes a burden 10x lighter.
Perhaps this is why Google, Pinterest, Instagram, Tumblr, and all these websites are a gold mine for powerful quotes about failing and, nonetheless, inspirational quotes. We feel more at peace when we know that we are not alone: feeling defeated and desperately searching for inspiring quotes and ideas to help shine a light on things that feel like the end of the world. But it's not, and you know it.
To help put your mind at ease, we've compiled an exhaustive list of the best quotes on failure, don't give up quotes, how do I move on quotes, call them whatever quotes we could find online. And hopefully, seeing that some of the most remarkable, successful people who walked this earth have faced failure just enough times to make a quote about it will be enough motivation for you to get your head back up.
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"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill
"It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world." - Charles Kettering
"I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success." - Paulo Coelho
"Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again." - Richard Branson
"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"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
"It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure." - Bill Gates
"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor." - Truman Capote
"I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-been. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try." - Nikki Giovanni
"Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet." - Robert H. Schuller
"My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure." - Abraham Lincoln
"Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul." - Douglas MacArthur
Let's not get started on his atrocities... I wonder how wrinkled his soul ended up being?
"I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying." - Michael Jordan
"Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday." Wilma Rudolph
"There is no such thing as failure. There are only results." - Tony Robbins
I like this one, too. Can't stand the guy, but he at least managed to regurgitate some wisdom LOL
"My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them." - Jack Kerouac
"The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same." - Colin R. Davis
"If you're so afraid of failure, you will never succeed. You have to take chances." - Mario Andretti
"Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure." - George Edward Woodberry
"I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right." - Albert Einstein
"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... Than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat." - Theodore Roosevelt
"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 von Oech
"There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows." - George Eliot
"Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough." - Og Mandino
"Your ability to adapt to failure, and navigate your way out of it, absolutely 100 percent makes you who you are." - Viola Davis
"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently." - Henry Ford
This got me. I strive to learn from failure, but it is so easy to let a failure eat me from the inside like a parasite.
"I have self-doubt. I have insecurity. I have fear of failure. I have nights when I show up at the arena and I'm like, 'My back hurts, my feet hurt, my knees hurt. I don't have it. I just want to chill.' We all have self-doubt. You don't deny it, but you also don't capitulate to it. You embrace it." - Kobe Bryant
"Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure." - Paulo Coelho
"A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying." - B. F. Skinner
"Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success." - C. S. Lewis
"I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process. - Oprah Winfrey
"Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure." - Soichiro Honda
"Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe." - Sumner Redstone
"But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated." - Ernest Hemingway
"The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success." - Paramahansa Yogananda
"If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative." - Woody Allen
"If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure." - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
"The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top." - Joyce Brothers
"Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable." - Coco Chanel
"Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it." - Mia Hamm
"Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure." - S. I. Hayakawa
"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." - Thomas A. Edison
"At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings." - Hector Berlioz
"The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures." - Humphry Davy
"Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence." - Colin Powell
"The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best." - George Eliot
"A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success." - Elbert Hubbard
"They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?" - Fidel Castro
"It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes." - Anne Baxter
"True leaders don't invest in buildings. Jesus never built a building. They invest in people. Why? Because success without a successor is failure. So your legacy should not be in buildings, programs, or projects; your legacy must be in people." - Myles Munroe
"You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. 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
"It would be great to be able to pass on to someone all of the successes, the failures, and the knowledge that one has had. To help someone, avoid all the fire, pain and anxiety would be wonderful." - Sylvester Stallone
"Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness." - Oprah Winfrey
"Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit." - Napoleon Hill
"Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are." - Norman Vincent Peale
"The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure." - Lyndon B. Johnson
"One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king." - Abraham Maslow
"A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else." - John Burroughs
"You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give." - E. O. Wilson
"Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets." - Michael Korda
"Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do." - Napoleon Hill
"The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life." - Theodore Roosevelt
"You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which 'clicks.'" - Florence Scovel Shinn
"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 of failure." - Thomas J. Watson
"Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you've got something to share." - Steve Harvey
"Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them." - John C. Maxwell
"Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it." - Thomas Sowell
"If something's important enough, you should try. Even if - the probable outcome is failure." - Elon Musk
"There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King." - Orison Swett Marden
"You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down." - Mary Pickford
"We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery." - Samuel Smiles
"Success is not the absence of failure; it's the persistence through failure." - Aisha Tyler
"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent." - Calvin Coolidge
"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
"Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important." - Steve Jobs
"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
"I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success." - J. Paul Getty
"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
"A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it." - Alexandre Dumas
"It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final." - Roger Babson
"The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure." - Laurence J. Peter
"To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives." - Denis Waitley
"Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out." - Edwin Markham
"The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide." - James Baldwin
"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." - Winston Churchill
"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
"Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself." - Luc de Clapiers
"Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed." - Lily Tomlin
"I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy." - Tony Robbins
"Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success." - Dale Carnegie
"All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure." - Carl Sandburg
"Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure." - Confucius
"The tragedy of life is often not in our failure, but rather in our complacency; not in our doing too much, but rather in our doing too little; not in our living above our ability, but rather in our living below our capacities." - Benjamin E. Mays
"Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others." - Amelia Earhart
"Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure." - Gary Ryan Blair
"Honesty is the fastest way to prevent a mistake from turning into a failure." - James Altucher
"It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... We make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones." - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure." - Benjamin Disraeli
"Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive." - Andy Grove
"Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future." - Swami Sivananda
"One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them." - Thomas Sowell
"Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act." - Andre Malraux
"Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." - Thomas A. Edison
"All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right about face which turns us from failure to success." - Dorothea Brande
"We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes." - Amos Bronson Alcott
"Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances." - Orison Swett Marden
"The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism." - Earl Warren
"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure." - Colin Powell
"Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement." - Florence Scovel Shinn
"Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure." - George Eliot
"I have probably purchased fifty 'hot tips' in my career, maybe even more. When I put them all together, I know I am a net loser." - Charles Schwab
"There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat." - Ann Landers
"We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing." - Robert E. Lee
"Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God." - Charles Horton Cooley
"In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. We need to change this attitude toward failure - and celebrate the idea that only by falling on our collective business faces do we learn enough to succeed down the road." - Naveen Jain
