20 Powerful Quotes on Failure From Creative Minds
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Zach- 9 minutes read
Failure is a part of the creative process, but it can still be crushing. Here are 20 powerful quotes on failure from creative minds to inspire and uplift.
Do you ever feel alone and crushed in your creative process when you fail to bring your imagination to life or when other constraints break your process and flow? You’re not alone. Failure is part of the creative process, and every creative mind has faced failure. Learning to overcome failure can be a challenge which is why well-being and creative habits are so important, but it’s also important to stay motivated and inspired.
Start overcoming failure by being motivated by famous creative minds and their thoughts on overcoming failure and challenges in the creative process.
“Mistakes are the portals of discovery.”
― James Joyce
Novelist, Poet
“I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.”
― Amelia Earhart
Aviator, Writer
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
― Thomas A. Edison
Inventor, Businessman
“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.”
― Maya Angelou
Memoirist, Poet
“Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.”
― Salvador Dalí
Artist
“Failure is a great teacher, and, if you are open to it, every mistake has a lesson to offer.”
― Oprah Winfrey
Actress, Writer, Talk Show Host
“Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.”
― C.S. Lewis
Writer
“There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.”
― Brené Brown
Professor, Writer
“If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success.”
― James Cameron
Filmmaker
“Fear kills more dreams than failure ever will.”
― Suzy Kassem
Poet
“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
― Albert Einstein
Theoretical Physicist
“The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don’t give a damn.”
― Agatha Christie
Writer
“Don’t fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail.”
― Bruce Lee
Martial Artist, Writer, Filmmaker
“Every adversity, every failure, every heartbreak, carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.”
― Napoleon Hill
Writer
“All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.”
― William Faulkner
Writer
“What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.”
― Oscar Wilde
Poet, Playwright
“If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.”
― Henry David Thoreau
Naturalist, Essayist, Poet, and Philosopher
“Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.”
― Jules Verne
Novelist, Poet, and Playwright
“Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
― Samuel Beckett
Novelist, Dramatist
“If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.”
― H.G. Wells
Writer
“We are all failures- at least the best of us are.”
― J.M. Barrie
Novelist, Playwright
“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
― Paulo Coelho
Lyricist, Novelist
“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”
― Truman Capote
Novelist, Screenwriter, Playwright, Actor
“It’s only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you’re not expressing the utmost of your human experience.”
― Lupita Nyong’o
Actor
“But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”
― Ernest Hemingway
Writer
“Whatever it takes to finish things, finish. You will learn more from a glorious failure than you ever will from something you never finished.”
― Neil Gaiman
Writer
“A hundred failures would not matter, when one single success could change the destiny of the world.”
― Arthur C. Clarke
Writer, Inventor, Futurist, Explorer
“The secret is not to give up hope. It’s very hard not to because if you’re really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side.”
― George Lucas
Filmmaker
Zach is an international writer, photographer, filmmaker, martial artist, and creator of Creative Enso, the Zen art of creative living. His goal is to empower and inspire creatives to live healthier, happier, and more creative lifestyles.
