Best Failure Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“Poets never die, I thought. They just fail in the end.”

“Death, of course, is not a failure. Death is normal. Death may be the enemy, but it is also the natural order of things.”

“Failures plagued me. Things I had omitted or ignored, neglected. What I should have given and hadn’t. I felt the biting pang of every unfulfillment.”

“The phoenix must burn to emerge.”

“Together, they would watch everything that was so carefully planned collapse, and they would smile at the beauty of destruction.”

“The only way a failure becomes a failure is by learning nothing from it. If we take away a lesson, then the experience is indeed a success.”

“Failure is not the opposite of success but a steppingstone that leads to success. Failures mean you are trying. Failures mean you are learning. Failures mean you are putting in the efforts required to achieve the ultimate goal of success. Failures teach us, prepare us, and steer us toward whatever we set our sights on. Failures happen all the time. You have to keep trudging through them to get where you want to go.”

“Failure, I’ve learned, isn’t the enemy—it’s the teacher.”

“If laughter and play are tools for healing, failure is the sharpening stone.”

“Failure isn’t just about persistence—it’s about being brave enough to try in the first place.”

“Failure is messy, uncomfortable, and sometimes downright painful—but it’s also where we grow.”

“Woe be the one who hasn’t made it by age thirty. There is something ludicrous about setting the bar for making it at thirty when the average life expectancy is seventy-four. The truth is that each of us has the capacity, if we so desire, to follow different paths at different points in our lives - to put an end to one pursuit and begin another. When you understand that, you’ll see that there is no such thing as failure.”

“Failure is just feedback; use it to your advantage.”

“I am, after all, an adult, a grown man, a useful human being, even though I lost the career that made me all these things. I won't make that mistake again.”

“Most of what I know”

“In this vagueness,”

“Okay, we didn’t work, and all”

“May be its mine bad-luck”

“Don't worry about being effective. Just concentrate on being faithful to the truth.”

“A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.”

“The biggest reason for failure is when people want to introduce something new which has no past or even present because the truth is everything is and was and shall be, only we are seeing a new way of looking at it”

“Just as the bird needs wings to fly, a leader needs useful information to flow. Leaders learn.”

“The way into the hall of success always passes through the chamber of decision. Decide to be a success; success is deliberate!”

“My priority is not about grades. I seek yearn for knowledge, skills and wisdom.”

“The failure mode of clever is “asshole.”

“Lucy: You learn more when you lose”

“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”

“I'll look to the cross”

“With adequate planning, passion and perseverance, you can achieve the God-given goals.”

“Dreams hit the fan? Life unexpectedly take a turn for the worst? Here’s what you do:”