Motivational Quotes And Sayings About Failure

1. “Mistakes are the portals of discovery.”

— James Joyce

2. “When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.”

— George Bernard Shaw

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3. “Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.”

— Henry Ford

4. “It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.”

— Bill Gates

5. “Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.”

— Richard Branson

6. “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 have failed by default.”

— J.K. Rowling

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

— Truman Capote

8. “For my first show at ‘SNL’, I wrote a Bill Clinton sketch, and during our read-through, it wasn’t getting any laughs. This weight of embarrassment came over me, and I felt like I was sweating from my spine out. But I realized, ‘Okay, that happened, and I did not die.’ You’ve got to experience failure to understand that you can survive it.”

— Tina Fey

9. “Failure is enriching. It’s also important to accept that you’ll make mistakes—it’s how you build your expertise. The trick is to learn a positive lesson from all of life’s negative moments.”

— Alain Ducasse

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


— Thomas Edison

11. “I think you have to try and fail, because failure gets you closer to what you’re good at.

— Louis C.K.

12. “I thank God for my failures. Maybe not at the time but after some reflection. I never feel like a failure just because something I tried has failed.”

— Dolly Parton

13. “Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything—all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure—these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.”

— Steve Jobs

14. “Part of being a man is learning to take responsibility for your successes and for your failures. You can’t go blaming others or being jealous. Seeing somebody else’s success as your failure is a cancerous way to live.”

— Kevin Bacon

15. “I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.”

— Michael Jordan