46 Quotes About Failures Leading to Success

Failure is a key part to achieving success. With knowledge comes empowerment and the ability to meet your objective. Here are some incredible quotes about failures leading to success that will encourage you.

“A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.”

“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.”

“Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.”

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

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

“Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.”

“Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.”

“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.”

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

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

“Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.”

“Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.”

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

“I don’t understand a way to work other than bold-facedly running towards failure.”

“I don’t want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.”

“I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.”

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

“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.”

“I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.”

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

“I was afraid of being a failure, of not having the best time or of being chicken. But every year I get older I think, What was I fearing last year?’ You forget. And then you move on.”

“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.”

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

“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”

“Mistakes are the portals of discovery.”

“My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.”

“My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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. ”

“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”

“Success is not built on success. It’s built on failure. It’s built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.”

“Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.”

“Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.”

“Success isn’t permanent and failure isn’t fatal.”

“That sense of failure, I don’t know where people put it who don’t write songs and aren’t able to emote physically. It must go somewhere.”

“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”

“The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.”

“There’s always failure. And there’s always disappointment. And there’s always loss. But the secret is learning from the loss, and realizing that none of those holes are vacuums.”

“Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.”

“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.”

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

“When you’re fearless, you take more risks because you’re less conscious of failure or what can go wrong.”

“You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don’t try to forget the mistakes, but you don’t dwell on it. You don’t let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.”

“You don’t go into anything contemplating failure, because if you did, you wouldn’t make it.”

“You have to be able to accept failure to get better.”

For entrepreneurs, it can take dozens to hundreds of failures to get that one thing right. How many failures can you overcome?