Ask anyone that has ever done anything worth mentioning and they will tell you that failure is temporary and an important step in success. Very rarely do people succeed on their first attempt. Instead, failure is nature’s way of weeding out the weak and testing the fortitude of the strong.
But rather than write about the importance of bouncing back from failure, I found 28 great quotes that succinctly express the thought. Here they are.
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I am strong and life will never get me down, because the harder I fall, the higher I bounce.
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Falling down is a part of life. Getting back up is living.
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Champions keep playing until they get it right.
-Billie Jean King
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If the plan doesn’t work, change the plan but never the goal.
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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
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It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated…it is finished when it surrenders.
-Ben Stein
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Embrace failure. Missteps and roadblocks are inevitable but are ultimately an opportunity to learn, pivot, and go after your goals with new perspective.
-Jenny Fleiss
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Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing.
-Pele
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Losers quit when they fail. Winners fail until they succeed.
-Robert Kiyosaki
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The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
-Nelson Mandela
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Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.
-Napoleon Hill
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You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
-Margaret Thatcher
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Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.
-Julie Andrews
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Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.
-Mia Hamm
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Learn how to handle rejection, work hard, and function outside of your comfort zone. Success will be yours.
-Gonzo Arzuaga
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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
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Life is like a camera. Just focus on what’s important and capture the good times, develop from the negatives and if things don’t work out, just take another shot.
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The number one reason why people give up so fast is because they tend to look at how far they still have to go, instead of how far they have gotten.
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It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
-Theodore Roosevelt
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There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.
-Paulo Coelho
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Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
-Winston Churchill
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I consider your rejection a lucky charm, because everything that ever happened in my life came on the heels of failure.
-Barbara Corcoran
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Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
-Thomas A. Edison
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It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
-Bill Gates
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The true measure of success is how many times you can bounce back from failure.
-Stephen Richards
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I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
-Michael Jordan
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Failure is a much more faithful teacher than immediate success.
-David Duchemin
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Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
-Henry Ford
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