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Fearless Resilience: 125 Quotes Exploring the Wisdom in Failure

Failure. 

It’s not the end of the road, but rather a stepping stone on the path to success. Join us on this journey of embracing failure with open arms. Here are some quotes that remind us that setbacks are just setups for comebacks! 💪 Let’s spread the wisdom and encourage each other to keep pushing forward.

  1. Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be. -John Wooden
  2. We are all failures – at least the best of us are.- J.M. Barrie
  3. If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There’s no point in being a damn fool about it.- W. C. Fields
  4. Mistakes aren’t a necessary evil. They aren’t evil at all. They are an inevitable consequence of doing something new. -Ed Catmull
  5. The attempt to avoid failure makes failure more likely. -Ed Catmull
  6. If you aren’t experiencing failure, it means you are failing. -Lance Allred
  7. Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure. -Jim Rohn
  8. I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion.- Yohji Yamamoto
  9. Success or failure is caused more by mental attitude than by mental capacity. -Walter Scott
  10. Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle. -James Russell Lowell
  11. 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 fail by default. -J.K. Rowling
  12. It’s not easy, but if you accept your misfortune and handle it right, your perceived failure can become a catalyst for profound reinvention.- Conan O’Brien
  13. Keep your head up in failure, and your head down in success. -Jerry Seinfeld
  14. If you learn from defeat, you haven’t really lost.- Zig Ziglar
  15. Failures are amplified by denying that they are failures. -Mark Manson
  16. Failure is nothing more than learning how to win. -Robin Sharma
  17. I’ve come to realize that all my past failures and frustrations were actually laying the foundation for the understanding that have created the new level of living I now enjoy. -Tony Robbins
  18. You’ve got to experience failure to understand that you can survive it. -Tina Fey
  19. Always remember that failure is an event, not a person.- Zig Ziglar
  20. It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. -Roger Babson
  21. If you experiment a lot you will fail often but at the same time your odds of success will also increase. Success and failure go hand in hand; they are not mutually exclusive. Learn to look at success and failure as gradations on a continuum, not as binary opposites. -The Ancient Sage
  22. People who have the ability to fail in public under their own names actually gain a lot of power. -Naval Ravikant
  23. Just because you failed doesn’t mean you can’t succeed. We all fail. Mentally resilient people realize that its not failure that defines your identity but how you respond. -Shane Parrish
  24. Blame is not for failure. It is for failing to help or ask for help. -Jorgen Vig Knudstorp
  25. An action committed in anger, is an action doomed to failure. -Genghis Khan
  26. What would you be glad you did – even if you failed? -Brené Brown
  27. Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses. -George Washington Carver
  28. It is your own bad strategies, not the unfair opponent, that are to blame for your failures. You are responsible for the good and bad in your life. -Robert Greene
  29. You’re not afraid of failure. You’re afraid of other people thinking you’re a failure.- Joey Justice
  30. When failure is reversible, act quickly. When failure is irreversible, think carefully.-James Clear
  31. We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us. -Rabindranath Tagore
  32. Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure. But the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it. -J.K. Rowling

 

  1. What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do. -Tim Ferriss
  2. Those who truly fail in my eyes are the ones who never try at all. The ones who sit on the couch and whine and moan and wait for the world to change for them. -Sarah Dessen
  3. There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.- Laurence J. Peter
  4. First principle: never to let one’s self be beaten down by persons or by events. Marie Curie
  5. Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it’s not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way.- Barack Obama
  6. It is very important to embrace failure and to do a lot of stuff — as much stuff as possible — with as little fear as possible. -Stefan Sagmeister
  7. It’s much, much better to wind up with a lot of crap having tried it than to overthink in the beginning and not do it. -Stefan Sagmeister
  8. Failure changes for the better, success for the worse. -Seneca
  9. In a world that’s changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is to not taking risks.- Mark
  10. Failure is success if we learn from it. -Malcolm Forbes
  11. The best way out is always through. -Robert Frost
  12. Embrace failure. Never never quit. Get very comfortable with that uneasy feeling of going against the grain and trying something new. -Terry Crews
  13. I think you have to try and fail, because failure gets you closer to what you’re good at. -Louis C.K.
  14. Your dream doesn’t have an expiration date. Take a deep breath and try again. -Unknown
  15. Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.- Coco Chanel
  16. Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit. -Napoleon Hill
  17. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere. -Barack Obama
  18. No matter what one does, regardless of failure or success, the experience is a form of success in itself. -Jack Ma
  19. Apprentice yourself in failure. -Robert Greene
  20. My reputation grows with every failure. -George Bernard Shaw
  21. Not failure, but low aim, is a crime. -James Russell Lowell
  22. A hundred failures would not matter, when one single success could change the destiny of the world. -Arthur C. Clarke
  23. Failure doesn’t kill you… it increases your desire to make something happen. -Kevin Costner
  24. There is no failure unless one stops. Not to work is to cease, tighten up, become nervous and therefore destructive of the creative process.- Ray Bradbury
  25. 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
  26. If you fell down yesterday, stand up today. -H. G. Wells
  27. You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try. -Beverly Sills

 

  1. Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments. Therefore, each moment is vital. It affects the whole. Life is a succession of such moments and to live each, is to succeed. -Corita Kent
  2. Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. -Thomas A. Edison
  3. 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
  4. We need big failures in order to move the needle. If we don’t, we’re not swinging enough. You really should be swinging hard, and you will fail, but that’s okay. -Jeff Bezos
  5. Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise. -Kobe Bryant
  6. If you aren’t making mistakes, you aren’t taking enough risks. -Debbie Millman
  7. Failure either ruins you or turns you into the man you can become. -Tucker Max
  8. It doesn’t matter how many times you have failed, you only have to be right once. -Mark Cuban
  9. 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
  10. The phoenix must burn to emerge. -Janet Finch
  11. Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.- Zig Ziglar
  12. Failure isn’t the opposite of success it’s part of it. -Unknown
  13. It’s not failure, it’s unfinished success. -Unknown
  14. Key to failure: Trying to please everyone. -Unknown
  15. The bigger the failure, the greater the lesson. -Unknown
  16. No man is a failure who is enjoying life. -William Feather
  17. Without failure there is no achievement. -John C. Maxwell
  18. The cost of failure is…learning. -Neil Strauss
  19. You always pass failure on the way to success. -Mickey Rooney
  20. If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success. -James Cameron
  21. Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. -Oliver Goldsmith
  22. If at first you don’t succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried. -Steven Wright
  23. I didn’t fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong. -Benjamin Franklin
  24. The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.- Buddha
  25. My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure. -Abraham Lincoln
  26. Victory has a hundred fathers, but failure is an orphan. -John F. Kennedy
  27. When you fail to prepare, you’re preparing to fail. -John Wooden
  28. Please know that I am aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others. -Amelia Earhart
  29. In any case, you must not confuse a single failure with a final defeat.- F. Scott Fitzgerald
  30. You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you. -Barack Obama
  31. Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat. -Ralph Ellison
  32. Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself. -Charlie Chaplin

 

  1. There is no such thing as failure, only results.- Tony Robbins
  2. I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. -Thomas A. Edison
  3. When it’s tough, will you give up or will you be relentless?- Jeff Bezos
  4. It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure. -Bill Gates
  5. Failure is an important part of your growth. Don’t be afraid to fail. -Michelle Obama
  6. 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
  7. You have to be able to accept failure to get better.- LeBron James
  8. Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. -Winston Churchill
  9. Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure. -Sylvester Stallone
  10. Sometimes life’s going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith. -Steve Jobs
  11. Don’t think of it as failure. Think of it as time-released success. -Robert Orben
  12. Sport and life is about losing. It’s about understanding how to lose.- Lynn Davies
  13. The only failures are those who fail to try. -Lester B. Pearson
  14. Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure. -Confucius
  15. I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying. – Michael Jordan
  16. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. -Samuel Beckett
  17. Success isn’t permanent and failure isn’t fatal. -Mike Ditka
  18. All my successes have been built on my failures. -Benjamin Disraeli
  19. Anyone who attempts is not a failure.- Sarah Dessen
  20. No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within. -Eleanor Roosevelt
  21. If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. -Henry David Thoreau
  22. I don’t believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process. -Oprah Winfrey
  23. A minute’s success pays the failure of years. -Robert Browning
  24. Failure is success in progress. -Albert Einstein
  25. It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.- Theodore Roosevelt
  26. We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies. -Voltaire
  27. Don’t worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try. -Jack Canfield
  28. Losers quit when they fail. Winners fail until they succeed. -Robert T. Kiyosaki
  29. There is no failure. Only feedback. -Robert Allen
  30. Make new mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody’s ever made before. -Neil Gaiman
  31. Mistakes are the portals of discovery.- James Joyce
  32. Failure is an attitude, not an outcome. -Harvey MacKay
  33. Failure is simply an opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. -Henry Ford
  34. Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. -Robert F. Kennedy