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Quotes on failure as a teacher, not an ending. This hand-picked collection brings together 25 of the finest failure quotes ever written — from Coco Chanel, Oscar Wilde, Mahatma Gandhi and other great voices. Tap Copy on any quote to save or share it.

Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

— Coco Chanel

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

— Oscar Wilde

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Do not judge me by my success, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.

— Nelson Mandela

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

— Dale Carnegie

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

— Winston Churchill

Many of life's failures are people who did not realise how close they were to success when they gave up.

— Thomas Edison

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

— George Bernard Shaw

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

— Albert Einstein

Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success.

— John Keats

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

— Paulo Coelho

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

— Confucius

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

— Benjamin Franklin

Even monkeys fall from trees.

— Japanese Proverb

I never lose. I either win or learn.

— Nelson Mandela

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

— Maya Angelou

A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

— Confucius

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all.

— J. K. Rowling

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

— Thomas Edison

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

— Albert Einstein

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

— Henry Ford

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

— Robert Browning

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

— Napoleon Hill

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much.

— Theodore Roosevelt

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