60 Failure Quotes About Getting Back Up (2021)

Our latest collection of inspirational failure quotes we have for you will keep you going even after you’ve fallen down.

Failure is a necessary and inevitable part of life. If we do not fail, we will never learn how to pick ourselves back up again and be stronger because of it.

Are you afraid to do something because you think you’ll fail? One of the biggest fears people have in their lives is failure.

Some are afraid they won’t succeed if they try something new while others are afraid that they might never “make it” pursuing what they’re passionate about.

It’s this fear of failure that stops many people from doing the things that can move them forward to achieve their goals.

Unfortunately, whether you like it or not, failure is part of life. Actually, it is impossible to live without failing at something. The only way you can avoid failure is if you never try anything new.

Life is too short to let the fear of failure stop you from pursuing your dreams and living your best life. In this regard, here are some great failure and mistake quotes that will inspire you to get back up each time you fall.

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Inspirational failure quotes about getting back up

1. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill

2. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas A. Edison

3. “Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” – Robert F. Kennedy

4. “Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.” – Og Mandino

5. “Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail.”– Confucius

6. “Success is measured by how high you bounce when you hit bottom” – George S. Patton

7. “It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”― Theodore Roosevelt

8. “Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.” – Napoleon Hill

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

10. “Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.” – Nelson Mandela

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11. “There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.” – Brene Brown

12. “It’s failure that gives you the proper perspective on success.” – Ellen DeGeneres

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

14. “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson

15. “When everything seems to be going against you remember that an airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” – Henry Ford

16. “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.” – Samuel Beckett

17. “Winners never quit. And quitters never win.” – Vince Lombardi

18. “If you didn’t succeed, it’s just as important to keep in mind that there has never been a success story without failure and lessons along the way.” – Eric Christian

19. “There is no doubt in my mind that there are many ways to be a winner, but there is really only one way to be a loser and that is to fail and not look beyond the failure.” – Kyle Rote Jr

20. “One fails forward toward success.” – Charles Kettering
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Inspirational quotes about overcoming failure

21. “Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.” – Coco Chanel

22. “Everything you want is on the other side of fear.” – Jack Canfield

23. “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

24. “Don’t bury your failures, let them inspire you.” – Robert Kiyosaki

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

26. “You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.” – George Eliot

27. “Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.”– C. S. Lewis

28. “An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he’s in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.”– Charles F. Kettering

29. “When we give ourselves permission to fail, we, at the same time, give ourselves permission to excel.”– Eloise Ristad

30. “Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.”– Napoleon Hill

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31. “Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill

32. “Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.” – Donald Trump

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

34. “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” – Albert Einstein

35. “If you learn from defeat, you haven’t really lost.” —Zig Ziglar

36. “We’re born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure.” – Whoopi Goldberg

37. “There is no thing as failure, only learning experiences.” – Anonymous

38. “Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.” ― Truman Capote

39. “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.”  ― Friedrich Nietzsche

40. “Failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success.” – Anonymous

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41. “Honesty is the fastest way to prevent a mistake from turning into a failure.” – James Altucher

42. “I can’t give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.” ― Herbert Bayard Swope

43. “Fear regret more than failure.” – Taryn Rose

44. “Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.” – Shah Rukh Khan

45. “We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes.” – Arianna Huffington

46. “I’ve failed over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.” – Michael Jordan

47. “The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.” – Henry Ford
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48. “Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success. I’ve met people who don’t want to try for fear of failing.” – J.K. Rowling

49. “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

50. “Just because you fail once doesn’t mean you’re gonna fail at everything.” – Marilyn Monroe

Other insightful failure quotes

51. “Don’t live the same day over and over again and call that a life. Life is about evolving mentally, spiritually, and emotionally.” – Germany Kent

52. “No matter how dysfunctional your background, how broke or broken you are, where you are today, or what anyone else says, YOU MATTER, and your life matters!” – Germany Kent

53. “All of us learned how to walk by failing.” – J.R. Rim

54. “You are right, I do fall down a lot. But that wouldn’t be true if I never stood back up.” – Richelle E. Goodrich

55. “Trust is the angels smiling when I’m crying because they see the other side of the world I haven’t come around to yet.” – Helen Edwards

56. “When setbacks arise – and they will from time to time – regroup, recharge, refocus and refine.” – Rasheed Ogunlaru

57. “Life is designed to knock you down. It will knock you down time and time again, but it doesn’t matter how many times you fall – it matters how many times you get back up.” – Lilly Singh

58. “When real people fall down in life, they get right back up and keep walking.” – Sarah Jessica Parker

59. “When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.” – Les Brown

60. “Everybody, at some point in their life, has fallen down and not felt like getting back up, but you have to, no matter how difficult it is.” – Charlie Hunnam

Thought-provoking failure quotes

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

62. “An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.” – Edwin Land

63. “Do not fear mistakes.” – Benjamin Franklin

64. “Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.” – Henry Ward Beecher

65. “If you’re doing your best, you won’t have any time to worry about failure.” – H. Jackson Brown Jr.

66. “You make mistakes. Mistakes don’t make you.” – Maxwell Maltz

67. “For every failure, there’s an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.” – Mary Kay Ash

68. “Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.” – Mike Murdock

69. “If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success.” – James Cameron

70. “Failure doesn’t mean you are a failure it just means you haven’t succeeded yet.” – Robert H. Schuller

Failure Quotes to Help you Bounce Back

71. “It’s not how far you fall, but how high you bounce that counts.” – Zig Ziglar

72. “There is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.” — Oprah

73. “There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.” ― Paulo Coelho

74. “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

75. “A man may fail many times but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.” – John Burroughs

76. “Anyone who attempts is not a failure.” – Sarah Dessen

77. “The master has failed more times than the beginner has tried.” – Stephen McCranie

78. “No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

79. “You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.” – Maya Angelou

80. “Try a thing you haven’t done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.” – Virgil Thomson

Were you inspired by these failure quotes?

Everyone is guaranteed to have failure at some point in their lives. The easiest way to prevail in times of failure is to learn from your mistakes.

Each failure is an opportunity to move closure to success. So although not easy, it’s upon you to get back up each time you fail at something.

Hopefully, these inspirational failure quotes have motivated you to get back up as soon as possible.

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