83 Best Quotes About Failure

We usually perceive our failures to be more public than our success and often try to avoid anyone knowing about them.

At some point, we all struggle and doubt ourselves and often question our unconventional ideas for fear of failure.

Many great people and businesses failed many times before making a success of themselves.  

Take Thomas Edison, for example; he failed 10,000 times before finally creating a successful incandescent light bulb.

Another example is Dyson, pioneered by James Dyson, who created 5,127 prototypes and failed on 5,126 of them before successfully making the fantastic bagless vacuum cleaner.

The famed J. K. Rowling, the author of the “Harry Potter” series, was rejected 12 times by publishers before seeing the promise in her books and decided to publish them. One of my favorite stories.

Through these many lessons of failure by great people, I hope you can see that failure is a part of life. Through our journey, we will have many failures before getting to that point of great success.

Today I wanted to share my favorite failure quotes with you that help me get through tough times when things aren’t going right, and I fail at something.  

I hope these quotes about failure will help you see that failure is useful in life.