“The secret of life is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.” – Paulo Coelho

“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 have failed by default.” – J.K. Rowling

“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

“Failure is another stepping stone to greatness.” – Oprah Winfrey¹

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

“Failure is a part of the process. You just learn to pick yourself back up.” – Michelle Obama

“Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail.” – Confucius

“Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again. Most of us adults are so afraid, so cautious, so ‘safe,’ and therefore so shrinking and rigid and afraid that it is why so many humans fail. Most middle-aged adults have resigned themselves to failure.” – Malcolm X

“We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes – understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success.” – Arianna Huffington

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

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

“It’s only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you’re not expressing the utmost of your human experience.” – Lupita Nyong’o

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

“Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.” – John F. Kennedy¹

“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson¹

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

“There are no failures–just experiences and your reactions to them.” – Unknown

“Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” – Samuel Beckett

“Success isn’t permanent and failure isn’t fatal.” – Mike Ditka

“All my successes have been built on my failures.” – Benjamin Disraeli

“Anyone who attempts is not a failure.” – Sarah Dessen

“No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.” – Henry David Thoreau

“I don’t believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.” – Oprah Winfrey

“A minute’s success pays the failure of years.” – Robert Browning

“Make new mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody’s ever made before.” – Neil Gaiman

“Mistakes are the portals of discovery.” – James Joyce

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

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

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

“There’s meaning in every failure. Find it.” – Maxime Lagacé

“Failure is success in progress.” – Albert Einstein

“Losers quit when they fail. Winners fail until they succeed.” – Robert T. Kiyosaki

“There is no failure. Only feedback.” – Robert Allen

“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.” – Theodore Roosevelt

“We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies.” – Voltaire

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

“First principle: never to let one’s self be beaten down by persons or by events.” – Marie Curie

“In any case, you must not confuse a single failure with a final defeat.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I built my life.” – J.K. Rowling

“You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.” – Barack Obama

“The only failures are those who fail to try.” – Lester B. Pearson

“Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.” – Confucius

“Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.” – Ralph Ellison

“There is no such thing as failure, only results.” – Tony Robbins

“Don’t think of it as failure. Think of it as time-released success.” – Unknown

“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.” – Unknown

“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.” – Henry Ford

I hope these quotes inspire you to embrace failure as a stepping stone to success!