Bouncing Back: 30+ Inspiring Quotes For Failures
Last Updated on 8 months by Iva Ursano
In pursuing our dreams and aspirations, setbacks and failures are inevitable companions. Yet, during these moments of adversity, we have the opportunity to find strength, resilience, and renewed determination. In this collection of inspiring quotes for failures, we delve into the wisdom of thinkers, leaders, and visionaries who have triumphed over challenges. These inspiring quotes for failures serve as a beacon of hope, reminding us that failure is not the end but a stepping stone towards growth and success.
Quotes about failure offer valuable motivation, reminding us that setbacks are part of success. They inspire resilience, teach us, and fuel determination, emphasizing that failure is a stepping stone, not the end. These quotes uplift spirits, renew determination, and assure us we’re not alone in pursuing our dreams.
30+ Inspiring Quotes For Failures
“You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.”
– Barack Obama
“When we give ourselves permission to fail, we, at the same time, give ourselves permission to excel.”
– Eloise Ristad
“It’s not how far you fall, but how high you bounce that counts.”
– Zig Ziglar
“It’s not about how many times you get rejected or you fall down or you’re beaten up. It’s about how many times you stand up and are brave and you keep on going.”
– Lady Gaga
“Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.”
– Napoleon Hill
“Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.”
– C.S. Lewis
“Failure is success in progress.”
– Albert Einstein
“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.”
– Henry Ford
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
– Winston Churchill
“Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.”
– Lance Armstrong
“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
“The secret of life is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”
– Paulo Coelho
“There is no failure except in no longer trying.”
– Chris Bradford
“I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.”
– Michael Jordan
“It’s failure that gives you the proper perspective on success.”
– Ellen DeGeneres
“It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.”
– Bill Gates
“We’re born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure.”
– Whoopi Goldberg
“If you don’t try at anything, you can’t fail… it takes back bone to lead the life you want”
– Richard Yates
“Giving up is the only sure way to fail.”
– Gena Showalter
“Do not judge me by my successes; judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.”
– Nelson Mandela
“If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original.”
– Ken Robinson
“My grandmother once told me, ‘Don’t let failure go to your heart and don’t let success go to your head.'”
– Will Smith
“Failure is a part of the process. You just learn to pick yourself back up.”
– Michelle Obama
“The phoenix must burn to emerge.”
– Janet Fitch
“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”
– Robert F. Kennedy
“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
“Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.”
– Coco Chanel
“Failure isn’t fatal, but failure to change might be”
– John Wooden
“Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail.”
– Confucius
“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
– Thomas Edison
Don’t fear failure — not failure, but low aim is the crime. In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail.
― Bruce Lee
“The master has failed more times than the beginner has tried.”
― Stephen McCranie
“Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end.”
― Denis Waitley
“You have to be able to accept failure to get better.”
― Lebron James
What’s Your Favorite Quote?
Let these quotes be your guiding light through tough times, reinforcing the importance of resilience, determination, and learning from failure. If you would like some more quotes to inspire you, here are a few more articles you might like:
