Failure tends to be more public than success. Therefore, failure is annoying and dishearting, for that reason, we try to avoid it and question our ability whenever we face any failure. However, the bitter truth is the greatest success were never achieved without failing. It may be one disgrading failure or a series of failure such as Thomas Edison’s 1,000 attempts to his invention-creating the light bulb. As he said,”I didn’t fail 1,000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1,000 steps.” Hence, whether we like it or not, success is a part of success; it is the stepping stone to success. In the article below, I have covered Top 20 Failure Quotes to Inspire Students that will hopefully inspire you to look at failure differently.
Top 20 Failure Quotes to Inspire Students
- “Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.” _C. S. Lewis
- “No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.” _Napoleon Hill
- “Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.” _Coco Chanel
- “Success always hugs you in private but failure always slaps you in public.” _Abdul Kalam
- “The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.” _Buddha
- “To be wrong is nothing unless you continue to remember it.” _Confucius
- “Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” _Robert F. Kennedy
- “The phoenix must burn to emerge.” _Janet Fitch
- “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” _Albert Einstein
- “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
- “Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is a 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
- “It’s failure that gives you the proper perspective on success.” _Ellen DeGeneres
- “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” _Winston Churchill
- “Part of being a man is learning to take responsibility for your successes and for your failures. You can’t go blaming others or being jealous. Seeing somebody else’s success as your failure is a cancerous way to live.” _Kevin Bacon
- “I’d rather be partly great than entirely useless.” _Neal Shusterman
- “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.” _Anthony Robbins
- “What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You make other mistakes, and when you have made all the mistakes you possibly can without drowning – and some of them many times over – what do you find? That you can swim? Well – life is just the same as learning to swim! Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!” _Alfred Adler
- “Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success.” _Robert T. Kiyosaki
- “We are all failures – at least the best of us are.” _J.M. Barrie
- “You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door in 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