Top 10 Powerful Quotes to Overcome Failure

May 9, 2025

John Wooden

“Failure isn’t fatal, but failure to change might be”

Thomas A. Edison

“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”

Robert T. Kiyosaki

“Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success.”

Denis Waitley

“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.”

Paulo Coelho

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

Michelle Obama

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Roy T. Bennett

The one who falls and gets up is stronger than the one who never tried. Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying

Maya Angelou

“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”

Coco Chanel

“Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.”