CURATED COLLECTION

Bouncing Back From Failure

Failure is not the opposite of success — it's part of the material success is built from.

50 quotes found

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Failure is not the opposite of success, it's a necessary part of it.

—Jessica AbelAuthor

Digital Age ERA • North America

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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

—Honoré de BalzacNovelist

Industrial Age ERA • Western Europe

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Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure.

—Theodore RooseveltPresident & Naturalist

Early Modern ERA • North America

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Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

—Winston ChurchillStatesman & Writer

Early Modern ERA • Western Europe

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It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

—Theodore RooseveltPresident & Naturalist

Industrial Age ERA • North America

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Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.

—Elon MuskEntrepreneur & Engineer

Digital Age ERA • North America

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Patience is the foundation of all endeavors, and success its crown.

—Bayram KhanPoet

Renaissance ERA • Central Asia

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Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway.

—Harper LeeNovelist

Post-War ERA • North America

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Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

—ConfuciusPhilosopher

Ancient World ERA • East Asia

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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

—Samuel BeckettNovelist & Playwright

Late Modern ERA • Western Europe

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If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person.

—Simone de BeauvoirExistentialist Philosopher & Feminist

Post-War ERA • Western Europe

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I will not lose, for even in defeat, there's a valuable lesson learned.

—Jay-ZScholar & Thinker

Digital Age ERA • North America

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The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself.

—Barack ObamaPresident

Digital Age ERA • North America

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You are the fixer. You are the builder. You are the one who puts yourself back together.

—Nikita GillPoet & Author

Digital Age ERA • South Asia

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I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small ones.

—Helen KellerAuthor

Early Modern ERA • North America

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Fortune is kind to him who knows how to make use of her.

—Giovanni BoccaccioWriter & Poet

Medieval ERA • Southern Europe

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When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

—Elon MuskEntrepreneur & Engineer

Digital Age ERA • North America

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The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

—Paulo CoelhoNovelist

Late Modern ERA • Latin America

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You have to bloom where you are planted.

—Tiffany HaddishScholar & Thinker

Digital Age ERA • North America

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Sometimes, to move forward, one must look back.

—Aminatta FornaAuthor

Contemporary ERA • West Africa

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