55 Inspirational Quotes On Success & Failure

In the journey of life, success and failure are two sides of the same coin, continuously influencing our paths and shaping our experiences. Whether you're celebrating a recent triumph or navigating through a setback, a touch of inspiration can often provide the perspective and motivation needed to move forward. We've meticulously gathered a selection of the top 55 inspirational quotes on success and failure to uplift your spirit, fuel your determination, and remind you that every experience brings us closer to our true potential. Dive in and let these powerful words ignite your passion and resilience.

1. “Being a compulsive overeater is no different from being an alcoholic or drug addict. The only difference is that you can avoid drugs and alcohol completely and you have to have a relationship with food every day for the rest of your life. It's actually the hardest addiction to live with. If you were an alcoholic and someone said to you that you were required to have a single drink three to five times a day, but were not supposed to ever drink to excess, or a drug addict who was required to take just one pill severeal times a day every day, but you're not supposed to ever take more than that...no one would ever make it through rehab.” - Stacey Ballis

2. “As you proceed through life, following your own path, birds will shit on you. Don't bother to brush it off. Getting a comedic view of your situation gives you spiritual distance. Having a sense of humor saves you.” - Joseph Campbell

3. “To have failed is to have striven, to have striven is to have grown.” - Maltbie Davenport Babcock

4. “I'm playing; I'm here. I'm going to fight until they tell me they don't want me anymore.” - Steve Nash

5. “Having some foundation for believing, by this time, that nature and accident had made me an author, I pursued my vocation with confidence. Without such assurance I should certainly have left it alone and bestowed my energy on some other endeavour. I should have tried to find out what nature and accident really had made me, and to be that, and nothing else.” - Charles Dickens

6. “Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.” - Oscar Wilde

7. “You can map out a fight plan or a life plan, but when the action starts, it may not go the way you planned, and you're down to your reflexes - that means your [preparation:]. That's where your roadwork shows. If you cheated on that in the dark of the morning, well, you're going to get found out now, under the bright lights.” - Joe Frazier

8. “Real mothers don't just listen with humble embarrassment to the elderly lady who offers unsolicited advice in the checkout line when a child is throwing a tantrum. We take the child, dump him in the lady's cart, and say, "Great. Maybe you can do a better job."Real mothers know that it's okay to eat cold pizza for breakfast.Real mothers admit it is easier to fail at this job than to succeed.” - Jodi Picoult

9. “الحياة لا يعجبها تذمر الأحياء .. إنها ترشوهم بأشكال مختلفة ومتفاوتة من الرضى ومن القبول بالظروف الإستثنائية .. يحدث هذا للمنفي, والغريب والسجين, ويحدث مثله مثله للخاسر والمهزوم والمهجور. وكما تتعود العين شيئاً فشيئاً على العتمة المفاجئة يتعود هؤلاء على السياق الإستثنائي الذي فرضته عليهم الظروف .. وإذا تعود الواحد منهم على الإستثناء فإنه يراه طبيعياً بشكل من الأشكال.” - مريد البرغوثي

10. “The living are always trying to find the shortcuts to happiness in life. But look what happens when someone achieves premature success: they bloom too early and spend the rest of their lives dying....Success without struggle warps a person.” - Susan Wells Bennett

11. “Luck is the dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.” - Ray Kroc

12. “In America, it's where you end up that matters, not how you get there. As long as you get there, no one asks questions. You don't ask. You never ask. And if someone does ask how you got there? It's usually a harmless person who never got anything, never got out, died paying rent as he waited for God to deliver him.” - Ernesto Quinonez

13. “If you focus on the risks, they'll multiply in your mind and eventually paralyze you. You want to focus on the task, instead, on doing what needs to be done.” - Barry Eisler

14. “We cheated, you and me, and someone noticed. I noticed you; someone else noticed me. It hurts us. That's not so bad. So many people cheat. Everywhere on every level. Everyone's cheated. I'm just saying that you don't need to see yourself as a cheater. Because that's not who you are. You're someone who cheated. There's a difference, and you should try to get that difference, or that's who you'll grow up to be.” - Anne Lamott

15. “If a man is to lose his fortune, it is a good thing if he were poor before he acquired it, for poverty requires aptitude.” - Geraldine Brooks

16. “Your life is a trajectory. Every choice you make alters that trajectory, in a positive or negative way. Will you categorize that dinner with friends as a business expense? Will you be honest with your daughter? Will you take more credit than you’re due? These are just the small questions that we face every day, and little by little, the answers influence the trajectory of our lives and beings.” - Donald Van de Mark

17. “Yes, I think it's okay to abandon the big, established, stuck tribe. It's okay to say to them, "You're not going where I need to go, and there's no way I'm going to persuade all of you to follow me. So rather than standing here watching the opportunities fade away, I'm heading off. I'm betting some of you, the best of you, will follow me.” - Seth Godin

18. “Only something extremely dire and disabling will ever stop a real writer from writing. Retirement is never an option.” - Warren Adler

19. “I’m not trying to do it like that … I’m trying to do it like it hasn’t been done!” - Michael Treanor

20. “It is a question of will, Mr. Wells," he said, striving to imbue his slurred voice with a tone of authority. "That's all.” - Félix J. Palma

21. “The best lessons learned are from other peoples mistakes.” - Melissa L. Bradley

22. “Each of us has two distinct choices to make about what we will do with our lives. The first choice we can make is to be less than we have the capacity to be. To earn less. To have less. To read less and think less. To try less and discipline ourselves less. These are the choices that lead to an empty life. These are the choices that, once made, lead to a life of constant apprehension instead of a life of wondrous anticipation And the second choice? To do it all! To become all that we can possibly be. To read every book that we possibly can. To earn as much as we possibly can. To give and share as much as we possibly can. To strive and produce and accomplish as much as we possibly can.” - Jim Rohn

23. “If you really want to know about life, just take time and listen to what the dying say.” - Gabriel Lawson

24. “You can have anything you want so long as you realise that you can't have everything you want.” - Orna Ross

25. “It's not enough just to laugh at good fortune and say, 'Enough already.' You have to really mean it -- that you have enough. And because you mean it, you take the surplus and you give it away. Similarly, when bad fortune comes, you bear it until it becomes unbearable -- your family is hungry, or you can no longer function in your work. And then again you say, 'Enough already,' and you change something. You move; you change careers; you let your spouse make all the decisions. Something. You don't endure the unendurable.” - Orson Scott Card

26. “Lord, look down on Thy Servant! Bad things have come to pass. There is no heat in the midday sun, nor health in the wayside grass. His bones are full of an old disease—his torments run and increase. Lord, make haste with Thy Lightning and grant him a quick release!” - Cherise Sinclair

27. “Everyone gets to the stage, or should get to it, where it's more important to stop doing things than to keep on trying to do them.” - George Johnston

28. “...most men and women will yield to the strong currents sucking them into the seas of ruin. Only the strongest in mind and spirit will swim against that current.” - Ted Dekker

29. “I am the master of my destiny, the leader of my actions,the dictator of my world for the power lives in me and noone else.” - Christina OW

30. “if you set your goals ridiculously high and its a failure, you will fail above everyone elses success” - James Cameron

31. “I had thought in those years, I suppose, having learned the lesson from my mother well, that it was foolish to ask for too much out of life, afterwards only to live in the wake of that expectation, an irreducible disappointment. But what pain, I thought now, could be greater than to realize that even the practical reality for which you had assumed to settle upon, did not hold – that even that was illusory? Would it not be better, then, to set your sights on some more fantastic and rare dream from which even in failing you might take some comfort in having once aspired?” - Johanna Shively Skibsrud

32. “He who does not hop to win has already lost.” - Jose Joaquin Olmedo

33. “H is for Habit, winners make a habit of doing the things losers don't want to do.” - Lucas Remmerswaal

34. “Good habits are the basic tools that will determine whether you are a tortoiseor hare in life!” - Lucas Remmerswaal

35. “Willful ignorance and endless laws become the replacement for self-education and self-restraint, because ignorance and laws are easy.” - Holly Lisle

36. “I know you like to be in control and you operate a lot from fear but you have to break the bounds of your past Nicole and rewrite the story you’ve been telling yourself based off of others experiences. You have to create your own experience, write your own story.” - Kathryn Vance-Perez

37. “No book is ever perfectNo piece of art is ever perfectNo meal I cook is ever perfect But at some point we have to eat...” - Tasha Turner

38. “From apparently the basest metals we have the finest toned bells.” - Frederick Douglass

39. “If you can hear the bell for the next round, then you are still in the fight! Get off your stool and start swinging...never give up & never quit on your dream!” - Paul Guildea

40. “I must admit that you fascinate me, Superior. Your life would seem to be entirely unbearable. And yet you fight so very, very hard to stay alive. With every weapon and stratagem. You simply refuse to die.”“I am ready to die.” Glokta returned his gaze, like for like. “But I refuse to lose.” ~Bayaz and Glokta” - Abercrombie, Joe

41. “Imagine there is a bank account that credits your account each morning with $86,400. It carries over no balance from day to day. Every evening the bank deletes whatever part of the balance you failed to used during the day. What would you do? Draw out every cent, of course? Each of us has such a bank, it's name is time. Every morning, it credits you 86,400 seconds. Every night it writes off at a lost, whatever of this you failed to invest to a good purpose. It carries over no balance. It allows no over draft. Each day it opens a new account for you. Each night it burns the remains of the day. If you fail to use the day's deposits, the loss is yours. There is no drawing against "tomorrow". You must live in the present on today's deposits. Invest it so as to get from it the utmost in health, happiness, and health. The clock is running. Make the most of today.” - Marc Levy

42. “Every sucessful person in the world is a hustler one way or another. We all hustle to get where we need to be. Only a fool would sit around and wait on another man to feed him.” - K'wan

43. “Neglected but Undefeated I stand today living the life I was told I would never live all because my faith grew.” - Jonathan Anthony Burkett

44. “find the diamond in you” - nainu

45. “Edit your life frequently and ruthlessly. It's your masterpiece after all.” - Nathan W. Morris

46. “No-one ever built themselves up by tearing down another.” - Brian Randleas

47. “Justice without mercy is tyranny” - E'Jéi Osborne

48. “Love every version of yourself, they help create your own unique version of extraordinary.” - Kaiden Blake

49. “‎Every opportunity missed is an opportunity for regret” - Karl Kloppenborg

50. “It takes tremendous effort to rise but it takes less effort to fall” - Kedron Omosigho

51. “She herself was of the opinion that there would have been no need for a wish consultant if grammar had been taught properly in schools, so that mundanes could be trained to mean exactly what they said. Not wishing to be rude to her guest, however, she kept this opinion to herself.” - P.B. Kerr

52. “Change doesn't comewithout invitation.You won't discover it inroutine. And you won't create an all-new and better you if you wait for someone elseto give you permission. Transformation begins - and ends - inside of you.” - Ellen Hopkins

53. “No es una hoja de papel lo que hace a un hombre. Ni la cárcel lo que le deshace.” - Stephen King

54. “Drinking is something people do; it's not what you are. But when it becomes what you are, you need to think about becoming something else.” - Tim Cowlishaw

55. “Think of some things you've wanted to do for ages and have never given yourself time or permission to do them. The Voice knows what they are and has probably suggested them many times. You've always said inside, 'Oh, I couldn't. Costs too much. I've got too much work. I'm too tired. I can't be away from x that long. Should clean out the garage instead.' It's time to stop cleaning and start living.” - Noelle Sterne