Quotes On Failure That Will Inspire You To Succeed.

If Thomas Edison had believed in failure…
we would still be living in darkness. If
Henry Ford had given up, we would still be
riding on horseback…if Alexander Graham
Bell had given in to the clutches of failure,
we would be spending less time staring at
those small plastic things we call phones that
rule our lives (which might not be a bad
thing!).
On a serious note – anyone who has
achieved ANYTHING great, anyone who has
CHANGED THE WORLD has at some point
made a choice to embrace failure instead of
fighting it.
If you look at the most inspirational
innovators, athletes, geniuses, and icons
throughout history, they all shared a
common belief – they simply did not
entertain the notion of failure as a bad
thing.
Instead, they understood that every failure
encountered brings you one step closer to
success, and that this is a natural part of the
process. Some even enjoyed failure!
If you think about it, failure is just
feedback; it’s simply showing you what’s not
working so you can find out what will work.
It’s necessary and can’t be avoided.
If we didn’t have failure, how would we
know what to do next? The process of
learning from our mistakes is truly
invaluable, and is something we need to run
toward, not run away from.
Below are a selection of quotes on the topic
of failure from 20 iconic people, each of
whom has achieved something great and is
talking from his or her own unique
experience.
Today, let’s celebrate these wonderful souls
who chose to embrace failure with open
arms. Maybe, just maybe, their words of
wisdom will help us to do the same.
1. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000
ways that won’t work.” - Thomas Edison
2. “Success is the ability to go from failure
to failure without losing your enthusiasm.” -
Winston Churchill
3. “Failure is only the opportunity to begin
again, only this time more wisely.” - Henry
Ford
4. “Our greatest glory is not in never failing,
but in rising every time we fail.” -
Confucious
5. “In order to succeed, your desire for
success should be greater than your fear of
failure.” - Bill Cosby
6. “Develop success from failures.
Discouragement and failure are two of the
surest stepping stones to success.” - Dale
Carnegie
7. “Failure is success if we learn from it.” -
Malcolm Forbes
8. “I’ve come to believe that all my past
failure and frustrations were actually laying
the foundation for the understandings that
have created the new level of living I now
enjoy.” - Tony Robbins
9. “There are no secrets to success. It is the
result of preparation, hard work and
learning from failure.” - Colin Powell
10. “It is fine to celebrate success, but it is
more important to heed the lessons of
failure.” - Bill Gates
11. “Every adversity, every failure, every
heartache carries with it the seed of a
greater or equal benefit.” - Napoleon Hill
12. “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
13. “The only real failure in life is not to be
true to the best one knows.” - Buddha
14. “My great concern is not whether you
have failed, but whether you are content
with failure.” - Abraham Lincoln
15. “Don’t be afraid to fail. Don’t waste
energy trying to cover up failure. Learn
from your failures and go on to the next
challenge. It’s ok to fail. If you’re not
failing, you’re not growing.” - H. Stanley
Judd
16. “Think like a queen. A queen is not
afraid to fail. Failing is another
steppingstone to greatness.” - Oprah
Winfrey
17. “Remember that failure is an event, not
a person.” - Zig Ziglar
18. “Failure after long perseverance is much
grander than never to have a striving good
enough to be called a failure.” - George Eliot
19. “Why do I talk about the benefits of
failure? Simply because failure meant a
stripping away of the inessential. I stopped
pretending to myself that I was anything
other than what I was and began to direct
all my energy into finishing the only work
that mattered to me.” - J.K. Rowling
20. “I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my
career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. Twenty-
six times I’ve been trusted to take the game
winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over
and over and over again in my life. And
that is why I succeed.” - Michael Jordan

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