50 Inspirational Quotes When Feeling Down

Inspirational quotes about life help us be encouraged, lift our spirit, and persevere during tough times.

These motivational quotes are about failure and success applicable to students, working people, and everyone else.

I hope these words of encouragement and strength will empower you and give you a positive outlook in time of need.

1. “Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again.” ― Henry Ford

2. “You always pass failure on your way to success.” — Mickey Rooney

3. “Giving up is the only sure way to fail.” — Gena Showalter

4. “It’s not how far you fall, but how high you bounce that counts.” — Zig Ziglar

5. “You only fail when you stop trying.” — Unknown

6. “Just because you fail once doesn’t mean you’re gonna fail at everything.” ― Marilyn Monroe

7. “It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.” ― Theodore Roosevelt

8. “Most great people have achieved their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.” — Napoleon Hill

9. “The phoenix must burn to emerge.” — Janet Fitch

10. “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” — Winston Churchill

11. “Instead of letting your hardships and failures discourage or exhaust you, let them inspire you.” — Michelle Obama

12. “Failure is a bend in the road, not the end of the road. Learn from failure and keep moving forward.” ― Roy T. Bennett

13. “I didn’t fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.” ― Benjamin Franklin

14. “Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald

15. “Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.” — Robert Kiyosaki

16. “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” — T. S. Eliot

17. “The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.” — Henry Ford

18. “Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.” — Richard Branson

19. “I don’t believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.” — Oprah Winfrey

20. “If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative.” — Woody Allen

21. “If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.” — Jim Rohn

22. “Some people dream of success while others wake up and work.” — Unknown

23. “Success isn’t just about what you accomplish in your life; it’s about what you inspire others to do.” — Unknown

24. “Don’t be distracted by criticism. Remember–the only taste of success some people get is to take a bite out of you.” — Zig Ziglar

25. “Life always offers you a second chance. It’s called tomorrow.” — Dylan Thomas

26. “We all at certain times in our lives find ourselves broken. True strength is found in picking up the pieces.” — Jill Pendley

27. “If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success.” — James Cameron

28. “I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” — Thomas Jefferson

29. “The line between failure and success is so fine, that we are often on the line and do not know it.” — Elbert Hubbard

30. “When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.” — Ellen DeGeneres

31. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” — Thomas A. Edison

32. “The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.” — Bruce Lee

33. “There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.” ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

34. “Mistakes are the portals of discovery.” — James Joyce

35. “The reason so many people fail to achieve their goals is because they have not committed to defending a time in which they will work on their goals.” — Steve McClatchy

36. “Never be a prisoner of your past. It was just a lesson, not a life sentence.” — Anonymous

37. “I never dreamed about success, I worked for it.” — Estee Lauder

38. “If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” — Jim Rohn

39. “Your willingness to risk failure is the only real measure of your desire to be rich. Failure is a prerequisite for great success. If you want to succeed faster, double your rate of failure.” — Brian Tracy

40. “There is no failure except in no longer trying.” — Chris Bradford

41. “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” — Albert Schweitzer

42. “Failure is a prerequisite for great success. If you want to succeed faster, double your rate of failure.” — Brian Tracy

43. “Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” — Winston S. Churchill

44. “There is a powerful driving force inside every human being that, once unleashed, can make any vision, dream, or desire a reality.” — Anthony Robbins

45. “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.” — Denis Waitley

46. “There will be lots of downs. Do your best to fight tooth and nail to survive. And if you don’t survive, if you have worked damned hard, don’t get down about it. There’s a lot of successful entrepreneurs who have picked themselves up and started again.” — Sir Richard Branson

47. “If you learn from defeat, you haven’t really lost.” — Zig Ziglar

48. “When we give ourselves permission to fail, we, at the same time, give ourselves permission to excel.” — Eloise Ristad

49. “If you don’t try at anything, you can’t fail… it takes back bone to lead the life you want” — Richard Yates

50. “If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.” — Steve Jobs