20 Quotes That Will Change Your Perspective on Success and Failure

Success and failure are two sides of the same coin. Sometimes we win, sometimes we lose, but we always learn something from our experiences. These quotes will inspire you to keep going, to embrace your failures, and to celebrate your achievements. Whether you are facing a personal or professional challenge, these quotes will help you find the courage and confidence to overcome it.

1. 1. There comes a time in your life, when you walk away from all the drama and people who create it. You surround yourself with people who make you laugh. Forget the bad, and focus on the good. Love the people who treat you right, pray for the ones who don’t. Life is too short to be anything but happy. Falling down is a part of life, getting back up is living -José N. Harris.
   2. Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds – Orison Swett Marden.
   3. Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts – Winston Churchill
   4. Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently – Henry Ford
   5. There is no failure except in no longer trying – Chris Bradford
   6. I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work – Thomas A. Edison
   7. I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again. That is why I succeed -Michael Jordan
   8. Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure -Napoleon Hill
   9. 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 fail by default – J.K. Rowling
   10. No human ever became interesting by not failing. The more you fail and recover and improve, the better you are as a person. Ever meet someone who’s always had everything work out for them with zero struggle? They usually have the depth of a puddle. Or they don’t exist – Chris Hardwick
   11. The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will – Vince Lombardi
   12. Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing – Denis Waitley
   13. 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 – Johnny Cash
   14. Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm – Winston Churchill
   15. The only thing that stands between you and your dream is the will to try and the belief that it is actually possible – Joel Brown
   16. There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure – Paulo Coelho
   17. It’s not how far you fall, but how high you bounce that counts – Zig Ziglar
   18. Never let success get to your head; never let failure get to your heart – Anonymous
   19. When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important. – Ellen DeGeneres
   20. The phoenix must burn to emerge. – Janet Fitch