Bouncing Back with Age: Quotes on Failure That Motivate and Heal
1. “Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” – Robert F. Kennedy
2. “The phoenix must burn to emerge.” – Janet Fitch
3. “Giving up is the only sure way to fail.” – Gena Showalter
4. “It’s failure that gives you the proper perspective on success.” – Ellen DeGeneres
5. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas A. Edison
6. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
7. “Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.” – Lance Armstrong
8. “I’d rather be partly great than entirely useless.” – Neal Shusterman
9. “We are all failures – at least the best of us are.” – J.M. Barrie
10. “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
11. “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
12. “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
13. “What is the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable?” – John Green
14. “I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.” ― Michael Jordan
15. “Failure is a part of the process. You just learn to pick yourself back up.” ― Michelle Obama
16. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” ― Thomas Edison
17. “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
18. “There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.” ― Brene Brown
19. “Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.” ― Benjamin Franklin
20. “One who fears failure limits his activities.” ― Henry Ford
21. “Giving up is the only sure way to fail.” ― Gena Showalter
22. “Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” ― Samuel Beckett
23. “The master has failed more times than the beginner has tried.” ― Stephen McCranie
24. “Fear kills more dreams than failure ever will.” ― Suzy Kassem
25. “Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end.” ― Denis Waitley
26. “You have to be able to accept failure to get better.” ― Lebron James
27. “You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone.” ― Johnny Cash
28. “Failure is success in progress.” ― Albert Einstein
29. “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
30. “Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.” — Lance Armstrong, Every Second Counts
31. “Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying.” — Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
32. “You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It won’t happen automatically. You will have to rise up and say, ‘I don’t care how hard this is, I don’t care how disappointed I am, I’m not going to let this get the best of me. I’m moving on with my life.'” — Joel Osteen
33. “Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.” — Truman Capote
34. “Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.” — Salvador Dali
35. “Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” — Winston S. Churchill
36. “Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.” — Coco Chanel
37. “To err is human, to forgive, divine.” — Alexander Pope
38. “It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.” — Theodore Roosevelt
39. “All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” — Samuel Beckett
40. “Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald
41. “Just because you fail once doesn’t mean you’re gonna fail at everything.” — Marilyn Monroe
42. “I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being–forgive me–rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger.” — J.K. Rowling
43. “I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.” – Michael Jordan
44. “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
45. “Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.” – Andy Grove
46. “There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.” – Tony Robbins
47. “Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something.” – Morihei Ueshiba
48. “Remember that failure is an event, not a person.” – Zig Ziglar
49. “Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.” – Benjamin Franklin
50. “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
51. “Failure is always an option.” – Adam Savage
52. “Success is not built on success. It’s built on failure. It’s built on frustration. Sometimes it’s built on catastrophe.” – Sumner Redstone
53. “I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.” – Albert Einstein
54. “The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.” – Paramahansa Yogananda
55. “Failure is impossible.” – Susan B. Anthony
56. “An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.” – Edwin Land
57. “Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.” – Douglas MacArthur
58. “You make mistakes. Mistakes don’t make you.” – Maxwell Maltz
59. “Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.” – Henry Ward Beecher
60. “There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.” – Michel de Montaigne
61. “If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.” – Quentin Crisp
62. “If you’re doing your best, you won’t have any time to worry about failure.” – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
63. “Success comes when people act together; failure tends to happen alone.” – Deepak Chopra
64. “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
65. “We are all failures- at least the best of us are.” – J.M. Barrie
66. “Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” – Samuel Beckett
67. “You’re not obligated to win. You’re obligated to keep trying. To the best you can do every day.” – Jason Mraz
68. “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, Rich Dad, Poor Dad
69. “Everybody said, ‘Follow your heart’. I did, it got broken.” – Agatha Christie
70. “The one who falls and gets up is stronger than the one who never tried. Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying.” – Roy T. Bennett
71. “Successful people have no fear of failure. But unsuccessful people do. Successful people have the resilience to face up to failure—learn the lessons and adapt from it.” – Roy T. Bennett
72. “Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.” – Edwin Markham
73. “The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.” – Richard Brinsley Sheridan
74. “Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.” – Bernard Baruch
75. “The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.” – Laurence J. Peter
76. “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
77. “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
78. “Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.” – Zig Ziglar
79. “The only risk of failure is promotion.” – Scott Adams
80. “Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.” – Michael Korda
81. “Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.” – John Wooden
82. “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
83. “It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.” – Charles Kettering
84. “I don’t believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.” – Oprah Winfrey
85. “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
86. “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
87. “Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It’s courage that counts.” – John Wooden
88. “If something’s important enough, you should try. Even if – the probable outcome is failure.” – Elon Musk
89. “There are many victories worse than a defeat.” – George Eliot
90. “They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.” – James Allen
91. “Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.” – Thomas A. Edison
92. “Man is not made for defeat.” – Ernest Hemingway
93. “You gotta lose ’em some of the time. When you do, lose ’em right.” – Casey Stengel
94. “The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.” – Francis Picabia
95. “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
96. “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
97. “Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.” – Charles Horton Cooley
98. “There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.” – Brene Brown
99. “I believe in never giving up, no matter what the odds. My mantra is, ‘Failure is temporary. Giving up is permanent.'” – Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
100. “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
