Free Motivational Quotes about Failure and Not Giving Up [PDF]

1. “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Confucius

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. “Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill

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

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

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

13. “Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat.” – Denis Waitley

14. “Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill

15. “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” – Albert Einstein

16. “Failure is success if we learn from it.” – Malcolm Forbes

17. “The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.” – Colin R. Davis

18. “Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something.” – Morihei Ueshiba

19. “In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.” – Bill Cosby

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

21. “I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” – Michael Jordan

22. “Don’t worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.” – Jack Canfield

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

24. “The only failure is not to try.” – George Clooney

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

26. “Failures are part of life. If you don’t fail, you don’t learn. If you don’t learn, you’ll never change.” – Anonymous

27. “The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible.” – Charles Kingsleigh

28. “You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated.” – Maya Angelou

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

30. “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.” – Johnny Cash

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

32. “Failure is a bruise, not a tattoo.” – Jon Sinclair

33. “You always pass failure on your way to success.” – Mickey Rooney

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

35. “The phoenix must burn to emerge.” – Janet Fitch

36. “The biggest risk is not taking any risk… In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.” – Mark Zuckerberg

37. “You have to be able to accept failure to get better.” – LeBron James

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

39. “Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.” – Benjamin Franklin

40. “Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, only this time more wisely.” – Henry Ford

41. “I’d rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.” – George Burns

42. “Failure is an attitude, not an outcome.” – Harvey Mackay

43. “Remember that failure is an event, not a person.” – Zig Ziglar

44. “Fall seven times, stand up eight.” – Japanese Proverb

45. “Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.” – Julie Andrews

46. “Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.” – Napoleon Hill

47. “Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.” – Roy T. Bennett

48. “Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.” – C.S. Lewis

49. “What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.” – Plutarch

50. “You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.” – Zig Ziglar

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