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

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On Success & Failure: The Wisdom Between Winning and Losing

Mar 1, 2026 · 5 min read

The most successful people in history failed repeatedly before they succeeded. These quotes reframe failure not as an ending but as the most honest teacher you will ever have.

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

Winston Churchill Attributed

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

Thomas Edison Attributed

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

Henry Ford Attributed

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 Harvard Commencement Address, 2008

Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Winston Churchill Attributed

The master has failed more times than the beginner has tried.

Stephen McCranie Attributed

You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing and by falling over.

Richard Branson Attributed

If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.

Woody Allen Attributed

Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.

Suzy Kassem Rise Up and Salute the Sun

Success is not the absence of failure; it's the persistence through failure.

Aisha Tyler Attributed

I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.

Estée Lauder Attributed

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

Confucius Attributed

The phoenix must burn to emerge.

Janet Fitch White Oleander

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

Samuel Beckett Worstward Ho (1983)

Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting.

Zig Ziglar Attributed