Failure Quotes

"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail."

- Confucius

"Haste in every business brings failures."

- Herodotus

"Once you know what failure feels like, determination chases success."

- Kobe Bryant

"Failures are expected by losers, ignored by winners."

- Joe Gibbs

"There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period."

- Brené Brown

"Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently."

- Henry Ford

"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better."

- Samuel Beckett

"I have not failed, I have just found 10,000 ways that won’t work."

- Thomas Edison

"Just because you fail once doesn’t mean you’re gonna fail at everything."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Everybody makes mistakes, but when goalkeepers make them, it is costly. That's the nature of being a goalkeeper."

- Gary Speed

""Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.""

- Richard Branson

"By failing to prepare, you’re preparing to fail."

- Benjamin Franklin

"It’s better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."

- Herman Melville

"Failure is the only opportunity to begin again more intelligently."

- Henry Ford

"Success is its own reward, but failure is a great teacher too, and not to be feared."

- Sonia Sotomayor

"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again. This time more intelligently."

- Henry Ford

"Failure's not an option. It's just a step."

- Dwayne Johnson

"Failure is a badge of honor. It means you risked failure. And if you don’t risk failure, you’re never going to do anything that’s different from what you’ve already done or what somebody else has done."

- Charlie Kaufman

"If you can’t fail, you can never get better."

- Benedict Cumberbatch

""We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes – understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success.""

- Arianna Huffington

"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. Failure is the true test of greatness."

- Herman Melville

"I’ve missed more than 9,000 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

"Don't worry about failure; you only have to be right once."

- Drew Houston

"Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really: Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all. 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 will find success."

- Thomas J. Watson

"We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes, understanding that failure is not the opposite of success – it’s part of success."

- Arianna Huffington

"If you want to succeed, you have to let failure be your best friend!"

- Yorck Segatz

"Failure defeats losers. Failure inspires winners."

"Be strong because things will get better. It may be stormy now, but it never rains forever."

"Don't worry about failure ... you only have to be right once."

"Failure is not the opposite of success. It is part of success."