Failure Quotes

"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

"Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success."

- Napoleon Hill

"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

"You can't let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you."

- Barack Obama

"Failure is a part of the process. You just learn to pick yourself back up."

- Michelle Obama

"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'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

"Don't fear failure — not failure, but low aim is the crime. In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail."

- Bruce Lee

"One who fears failure limits his activities."

- Henry Ford

"Let the fear of failure be the background noise of your success."

- Giovanni Dienstmann

"A fear of weakness only strengthens weakness."

- Criss Jami

"The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure."

- John C. Maxwell

"I have not failed. I have found 10,000 ways that don't work."

- Thomas Edison

"The master has failed more times than the beginner has tried."

- Stephen McCranie

"It is the true nature of mankind to learn from mistakes, not from example."

- Fred Hoyle

"Life is full of screwups. You're supposed to fail sometimes. It's a required part of the human existance."

- Sarah Dessen

"I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong."

- Benjamin Franklin

"We are all failures- at least the best of us are."

- J.M. Barrie

"The glory of life is not never falling. The true glory consists in rising each time we fall."

- Chinmayananda Saraswati

"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery."

- James Joyce

"Don't be afraid of failure. This is the way to succeed."

- LeBron James

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

- Samuel Beckett

"Ninety-nine percent of all failures come from people who have a habit of making excuses."

- George Washington Carver

"He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure."

- Jim Rohn

"Failure is like a caterpillar before it becomes a butterfly."

- Peta Kelly

"You can’t be afraid of failure. It’s the only way you succeed—you’re not gonna succeed all the time, and I know that."

- LeBron James

""I am not a pig farmer. The pigs had a great time, but I didn't make any money.""

- Willie Nelson

"Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough."

- Elon Musk

"Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out."