Top 200 Failure Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “You never lose until you actually give up.”

— Mike Tyson

152. “Every time I’ve failed, people have had me out for the count, but I always come back.”

— Sylvester Stallone

153. “Don’t be afraid of failure. This is the way to succeed.”

— LeBron James

154. “If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.”

— Woody Allen

155. “It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

156. “Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”

— Dale Carnegie

157. “Don’t worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.”

— Jack Canfield

158. “I’d rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.”

— Robert H. Schuller

159. “If anything can go wrong it will.”

— Edward A. Murphy, Jr.

160. “My brain cannot process failure. It will not process failure”

— Kobe Bryant

161. “You can learn great things from your mistakes when you aren’t busy denying them.”

— Stephen R. Covey

162. “I started SpaceX with the expectation of failure.”

— Elon Musk

163. “I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it is an illusion to me. Failure always made me try harder next time.”

— Michael Jordan

164. “Never give up. No matter what is happening, no matter what is going on around you, never give up.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

165. “You always pass failure on the way to success.”

— Mickey Rooney

166. “I don't measure a man’s success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.”

— George S. Patton Jr.

167. “You can't be paralyzed by fear of failure or you will never push yourself. You keep pushing because you believe in yourself and in your vision. And you know that it is the right thing to do and success will come.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

168. “Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.”

— Napoleon Hill

169. “The genius thing that we did was, we didn’t give up.”

— Jay-Z

170. “If something is important enough, you should try, even if the probable outcome is failure.”

— Elon Musk

171. “One who fears failure limits his activities.”

— Henry Ford

172. “If you don’t fall, how are you going to know what getting up is like?”

— Stephen Curry

173. “Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure.”

— Sōichirō Honda

174. “Every time a man rises from defeat, he becomes mentally and emotionally stronger. Thus, in time, one may actually find his self – his true, inner self – through temporary defeat.”

— Napoleon Hill

175. “It’s always easy to blame others. You can spend your entire life blaming the world, but your successes or failures are entirely your own.”

— Paulo Coelho

176. “Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.”

— Napoleon Hill

177. “When life knocks you down you have two choices – stay down or get up.”

— Tom Krause

178. “Everything fails, all the time.”

— Werner Vogels

179. “If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

180. “Like success, failure is many things to many people. With positive mental attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.”

— W. Clement Stone

181. “Failure is not important, how you overcome it is.”

— Nick Vujicic

182. “Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one when success is almost within reach.”

— Napoleon Hill

183. “Success is a poor teacher. We learn the most about ourselves when we fail, so don’t be afraid of failing. Failing is part of the process of success. You cannot have success without failure.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

184. “If you fail to prepare, you’re prepared to fail.”

— Mark Spitz

185. “A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit.”

— Richard Bach

186. “How long should you try? Until.”

— Jim Rohn

187. “Just because you have failed, that doesn’t make you a failure. And just because you have lost, that doesn’t make you a loser.”

— Eric Thomas

188. “Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.”

— Zig Ziglar

189. “I’ve come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.”

— Tony Robbins

190. “The courage to wander and fail is both necessary for our survival and key to outsized discoveries.”

— Roger Spitz

191. “Never say ‘I failed 99 times’, say ‘I discovered 99 ways that cause failure!’”

— Thomas A. Edison

192. “You are not defeated when you lose. You are defeated when you quit.”

— Paulo Coelho

193. “You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.”

— Ted Turner

194. “Do not feel bad about your mistakes or those of others. Love them! Remember that one: they are to be expected; two: they’re the first and most essential part of the learning process; and three: feeling bad about them will prevent you from getting better.”

— Ray Dalio

195. “Every setback is a setup for a comeback!”

— Joel Osteen

196. “Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.”

— Elon Musk

197. “Without proper self-evaluation, failure is inevitable.”

— John Wooden

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

— Thomas A. Edison

199. “Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.”

— Suzy Kassem

200. “Fall down seven times, get up eight.”

— Japanese Proverb