This collection of over 200 Quotes about getting back up and moving forwards after failure offers inspiration for anyone who has faced setbacks. It’s common to experience failure at some stage in our lives, and it can be tough to find the drive to stand up and keep going.
Often, failure is perceived negatively, as if it marks the end of trying. However, it’s important to see failure not as a stopping point but as a part of the process. It doesn’t mean everything is over; it simply means this attempt didn’t work out.
There are benefits of failure. It teaches valuable lessons, making you one step closer to success each time. Experiencing failure helps you learn emotional resilience and strengthens your mental toughness. It’s an opportunity to develop a skill set in dealing with setbacks.
If you’re feeling down after a setback and struggling to get back up, don’t lose hope. This extensive selection of quotes is here to rekindle your motivation and by reading them you’ll find the encouragement needed to rise again, stronger and more prepared than ever.
- “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Confucius
- “Take risks. Fail. Pick yourself back up again. And always, always remember this: there is no adversity capable of stopping you once the choice to persevere is made.” – Jason Kilar
- “If life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. And if you get up, you can stand up. And if you stand up, you can fight for your dream once again. You have something special. You have GREATNESS within you!” – Les Brown
- “As long as you’ve done your best, making mistakes doesn’t matter. You and I are human; we will mess up. What counts is learning from your mistakes and getting back up when life has knocked you down.” – Shawn Johnson
- “You may not be responsible for getting knocked down. But you’re certainly responsible for getting back up.” – Wally Amos
- “You rise up to the feats of the unstoppable, every time you lift yourself back up after being thunderously knocked down.” – Hiral Nagda
- “Get up and face life, because life is a gift and it is a short trip, my friend. We never know what day will be our last. It sounds like such a cliché, but it is one of the truest statements in life.” – Jennifer Storm
- “Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.” – Nelson Mandela
- “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
- “It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.” – Theodore Roosevelt
- “It’s not the failures in our life that define us, it’s the moments when we decide that getting back up is all that matters.” – Joel Brown
- “The most successful people in the world are those who have had many failures in life, but have also had the courage to get back up and fight for what they believe in.” – Angela Underwood
- “No matter what it is, pick yourself up and go on to the next project.” – Shelley Duvall
- “Long ago we mastered the ability to create and harness fire, but we still don’t know how to light and maintain the fire that inspires us and keeps us moving forward.” – Heidi Grant Halvorson
- “The only thing a person can ever really do is keep moving forward. Take that big leap forward without hesitation, without once looking back. Simply forget the past and forge toward the future.” – Alyson Noel
- “If you can look up, you can get up.” – Eric Thomas
- “Get knocked down. Get back up. Always be a fighter. Don’t be afraid of the punch. Don’t be afraid of getting back up. Be afraid of giving up.” – Maria Kanellis
- “It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.” – Vince Lombardi
- “We’re none of us quite so sure of our place in the world that we can’t be rocked off our feet by bad times. It’s the getting back up again that counts. Not that you fall, but getting back up again counts for more in the long run.” – Mercedes Lackey
- “You have to get up! You have to believe! Get up! Believe!” – Charlotte Herzele
- “Life may not be going well for you now, but as long as you are here, as long as you press forward, anything is possible. Hold on to hope.” – Nick Vujicic
- “You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep moving forwards. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.” – George Lucas
- “When life tends to knock you down, you can choose to get back up and continue moving forward, or you can simply give up and continue to lay there in the mud. It’s entirely up to you. Life will only ever be what you make it to be.” – Dustin Ahlers
- “No matter how many times you get knocked down, keep getting back up.” – Joel Osteen
- “It’s about being able to go through the grind, willing to get back up when you’re knocked down. And when life’s not going well, not getting down on yourself and just getting back up and getting back to work, and striving to be the best you can be.” – Robbie Lawler
- “Falling and getting back up is what brings you success.” – Tony Horton
- “It’s not up to you how you fall. It’s up to you how far you let yourself fall and how long it takes you to get back up and stand on your own two feet.” – Anonymous
- “The difference between being a winner and being a loser is how you pick yourself up again, especially when you’re down for the third or fourth or twentieth time!” – Susan Humphreys
- “At some point in life you will be challenged and perhaps even knocked down by overwhelming circumstances -never be afraid to get back up and fight for beliefs.” – Bradley N. Gallagher
- “Faith is moving forward even when things don’t make sense, trusting that in hindsight everything will become clear.” – Mandy Hale
- “Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.” – Napoleon Hill
- “We all fall to the floor at some point. It’s how you pick yourself up that’s the real challenge. Isn’t it?” – Madonna Ciccone
- “It’s time to get up and embrace success. You’ve got to start somewhere!” – Sara Praise
- “The lesson is, Always get back up. Simple enough. It’s a nice, tidy slogan, like “Never say die” or “Keep on truckin’!” It would fit inside a fortune cookie or look good on a bumper sticker.” – Susan Schorn
- “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas A. Edison
- “People get knocked down; it is how fast they get up that counts.” – John Mason
- “Dust yourself off, get back up and find your way again to get back on the bandwagon of pursuing your goals.” – Marc Shamus
- “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.” – Walt Disney
- “When setbacks arise – and they will from time to time, regroup, recharge, refocus and refine.” – Rasheed Ogunlaru
- “The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal.” – Criss Jami
- “It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.” – Epictetus
- “Determination gives you the resolve to keep moving forwards in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.” – Denis Waitley
- “Everyone falls down. Getting back up is how you learn how to walk.” – Walt Disney
- “If you’re willing to get back up and fight for what you want in life at all costs, there is promise in your faith.” – Anthony Reyes
- “A bad break is no excuse for staying stuck where you are.” – Germany Kent
- “No one will do for you what you should be doing for yourself. Get up, start walking, and never look back.” – Duke Jordan
- “Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.” – Richard Branson
- “Things don’t always work out the way we hope. You just have to pick yourself up and find a new direction to go in.” – Joelle Charbonneau
- “Wallowing in self-pity hurts no one except you. Boss up and find a way to get going again.” – Germany Kent
- “The question is not whether you are down. The question is whether you will get back up.” – David O. Bullock
- “Get up. No one is going to help you. Get up. You have a whole life to live.” – Bucky Sinister
- “Trying to be the best. Failing. Getting back up. Those characteristics are going to allow you to make great decisions. They are going to allow you to compete. They are going to allow you to achieve your best. That’s the American dream.” – Ronnie Lott
- “If you’ve fallen, make today the day you get up and get going.” – Jonathan Cahn
- “Don’t give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there who will try to discourage you. Don’t listen to them. The only one who can make you give up is yourself.” – Sidney Sheldon
- “You are right, I do fall down a lot. But that wouldn’t be true if I never stood back up.” – Richelle E. Goodrich
- “The secret of life isn’t what happens to you, but what you do with what happens to you.” – Norman Vincent Peale
- “Successful men and women keep moving forwards. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.” – Conrad Hilton
- “Regardless of the number of times that life will punch you and beat you to your knees, we need you to get back up and keep fighting back.” – Daniel Delatour
- “Every day you have a choice: to get up and face the day with your family uppermost on your mind, or get up and face the day with failure on your mind.” – Toni House
- “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.” – Samuel Beckett
- “I promise the day will get better, but you have to get up first.” – Sherri L. Lewis
- “I’ll probably get knocked down a few more times before this life is through with me, but I can guarantee you I’ll never stay on the ground.” – Colleen Hoover
- “It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.” – Vince Lombard
- “When you get knocked down, get back up. When you falter, regain your momentum. Should you encounter clouds and periods of obscurity, look for the openings and continue forward with passion and persistence.” – Kieran Revell
- “Get back up stronger and wiser than before. Create a mindset that does not allow you to quit.” – Amit Kumar
- “Life is not about how fast you run or even with what degree of grace. It’s about perseverance, about staying on your feet and slogging forward no matter what.” – Dean Koontz
- “Doors will slam in your face. You must pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and knock again; it’s the only way to achieve your goals in life.” – Michael Uslan
- “The challenges that stand before you will always try to knock you down, but, please, choose to get back up, for all of our sakes.” – Rhys-Jordan Griffith-Fyffe
- “When you get knocked down, don’t stay down; get back up again. Nothing good is going to happen as long as you’re down on yourself.” – Joel Osteen
- “The most successful people are those who are willing to keep moving forwards after making mistakes.” – Coach Flanagan
- “My attitude has always been, if you fall flat on your face, at least you’re moving forward. All you have to do is get back up and try again.” – Richard Branson
- “Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.” – George Whitefield
- “It’s the days you have every right to breakdown and fall apart, yet choose to show up any way that matter most. Don’t diminish the small steps that others can’t see.” – Brittany Burgunder
- “Be Brave and Take Risks: You need to have faith in yourself. Be brave and take risks. You don’t have to have it all figured out to move forward.” – Roy T. Bennett
- “Sometimes good things fall apart so better things could fall together.” – Marilyn Monroe
- “No matter how many times you get knocked down, keep getting back up. God sees your resolve. He sees your determination. And when you do everything you can do, that’s when God will step in and do what you can’t do.” – Joel Osteen
- “I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.” – Michael Jordan
- “Get up and get going! Take your reluctance by the throat and throw it overboard. Just do what needs to be done!” – Oswald Chambers
- “You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.” – George Eliot
- “Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand.” – Hayley Williams
- “Truth is, you will still be sitting there with the same story when you are old unless you get up and do something about it.” – Jerry Walker
- “I urge you to get back up and take another chance at life once you’ve been knocked down.” – Bako Ambiand
- “If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.” – Martin Luther King Jr
- “It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.” – Vince Lombardi
- “No matter what happens, keep getting back up. For every time you get back up, the fall makes you stronger and thrusts you to a new level.” – Hiral Nagda
- “In order to be the best version of yourself, you will face trouble and fall so hard but every time that happens you’ve got to remind yourself of what you want and then get back up and work on getting those things you want.” – Isaiah Netsianda
- “You can knock me down but I’ll still get back up and fight for my rights.” – Nazilla Khanlou
- “It is only when we fail to get back up that we have a problem.” – Isekhua Evborokhai
- “When you stumble along that path or come to an obstacle, get back up and find a way over, under, around, or through that thing that is in the path. Persistence is action.” – John Martin
- “You become stronger, wiser, and more resilient each time you suffer a defeat.” – Germany Kent
- “You have to be willing to stay down long enough to get a lesson and then bold enough to get back up and get back in the fight stronger and wiser than before.” – Tony A. Gaskins, Jr
- “Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win.” – Lyndon B. Johnson
- “We have everything already embedded in us to get back up and keep on going!” – Carlesha Tamia Herndon
- “If you’re going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill
- “Go through the raging sea, meet your knocked down self and look into your eyes. You will get the drill that you don’t belong here. And, you will get back up to rise up like never before.” – Hiral Nagda
- “Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” – Harriet Beecher Stow
- “Persistence – the ability to keep moving forward, in spite of difficulties.” – Byron Pulsifer
- “Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it you would let go of today?” – Mary Manin Morrissey
- “Whatever you might be facing. In the end, what matters is how quickly you get back up and take your power back.” – Hiral Nagda
- “If you stop, you’ll lose everything. You’ve got to keep moving forwards.” – Greyson Chance
- “Never give up hope. All things are working for your good. One day, you’ll look back on everything you’ve been through and thank God for it.” – Germany Kent
- “Moving forward first requires a step to be taken.” – Chase S.M. Neill
- “Choose to get back up when life pushes you down. Choose to have faith that it will be okay.” – Kelly Rompel
- “Life can knock you down. Some people may choose to stay down; others choose to get back up and fight.” – Jahnavi Foster
- “Set your goal and keep moving forward.” – Georges St-Pierre
- “Rekindling hope, engaging in inner work, and venturing into the world amount to a complete plan for picking yourself up when you’re down.” – Eric Maisel
- “Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail.” – Confucius
- “Failures and disappointments may come; you may feel down, but never allow yourself to stay down. Don’t give up; get up and move on.” – George Foreman
- “You have to remember that the hard times are what shape you.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger
- “If you don’t quit, you win.” No matter how many times you have fallen, I encourage you to get back up.” – Jennifer A. Miskov
- “When life knocks you down get back up and fight harder.” – Anonymous
- “I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.” – Maya Angelou
- “Just keep moving forwards and don’t give a damn about what anybody thinks. Do what you have to do, for you.” – Johnny Depp
- “When the going gets tough, put one foot in front of the other and just keep going. Don’t give up.” – Roy T. Bennett
- “The whole point about moving forwards is not that it connects what is already known, but that it continually opens a path into the unknown.” – Heather M. Morgan
- “If we want to manage the ups and downs of life, and live up in a down world, you need to get up and get out, workout that which is within, avoid going down and in, move over and look up!” – Dr. Bob Edwards
- “It’s not about not getting knocked down. It’s about building yourself back up” – Hiral Nagda
- “Get back up and fight for your dreams because I assure you if you won’t no one else will.” – Darnell Smith
- “You can’t expect to move forward if your emergency break is on.” – Angela Cecilia
- “You just have to keep moving forward. You just have to keep doing something, seizing the next opportunity, staying open to trying something new.” – Shonda Rhimes
- “If we find the strength to get back up and fight one more round, then we learn and we get stronger. Stronger with the knowledge we have the ability to lead more fulfilling lives.” – Maria Hocking
- “Be gentle with yourself, you’re doing the best you can.” – Wilferd Peterson
- “If we make the decision ahead of time to get back up when were knocked down, getting up will be easier.” – Dave Burchett
- “Winners never quit. And quitters never win.” – Vince Lombardi
- “Fail, pick yourself up, and fail again. Because what’s success without struggles?” – Anonymous
- “I choose to get back up and move forward today. I am not going to stay down because of discouragement and disappointment.” – Joel Osteen
- “Going against the odds, you will fail, and it will be your will to get back up and keep your head up that will keep you on the path toward genuine success and happiness.” – Jarrel L. Johnson
- “Success is measured by how high you bounce when you hit bottom.” – George S. Patton
- “You must give yourself alone time, listening time, and alone time again to absorb and sort things out in order to get back up again.” – Linda Frame
- “You can get back up. You can make it. No matter how badly you messed up. No matter how ugly yesterday was. No matter what you’ve been through.” – S. Todd Townsend
- “Fall down seven times, get up eight.” – Naoki Higashida
- “Love what you do. Believe in your instincts. And you’d better be able to pick yourself up and brush yourself off every day.” – Mario Andretti
- “Get back up and fight for what you believe in and tell yourself, ‘I can’ over and over again. Practicing repetition and positive reinforcement is what’s going to help you build resilience and keep you moving forward.” – Anonymous
- “When real people fall down in life, they get right back up and keep walking.” – Sarah Jessica Parker
- “Whenever you fall, pick something up.” – Oswald Avery
- “Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.” – Og Mandino
- “When you get pushed down, you pick yourself up and move on. I’ve never been a victim.” – Sharon Osbourne
- “It’s ok to fall. It’s not ok to stay there.” – Hiral Nagda
- “Anyone can give up, it’s the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that’s true strength.” – Anonymous
- “Rejection is, of course, part of any successful model’s career, as ironic as that sounds. It’s how you pick yourself up and get on with the job.” – Erin OConnor
- “Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.” – Marilyn vos Savant
- “The moment you give up is the moment you let someone else win.” – Kobe Bryant
- “If you didn’t succeed, it’s just as important to keep in mind that there has never been a success story without failure and lessons along the way.” – Eric Christian
- “You can learn a lot from failure, but that requires you to continue moving forward despite having failed.” – Darcy Oordt
- “The more you make mistakes along the way, the more you realize you can get back up from each mistake quicker and move on.” – Antonio Edwards
- “Don’t dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.” – Denis Waitley
- “Mistakes will be made. Failure will occur. You pick yourself up and carry on.” – Elizabeth Gilbert
- “My biggest regret is rolling in regret. It is best to pick yourself up, dust yourself off and move on.” – Andie MacDowell
- “I’ve learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.” – Tom Landry
- “Pick yourself up, dust yourself off and start again, that’s confidence in you, that’s being unbreakable and strong.” – Karabo Mathope
- “There is no shame in falling down but there is pride in getting back up.” – Lilly Singh
- “You need to pick yourself up and fix your broken pieces…No one else will do it for you!!” – Niveditha Patil
- “Turn every setback into a comeback.” – Kobe Bryant
- “Losers quit when they fail. Winners fail until they succeed.” – Robert Kiyosaki
- “Pick yourself up when you’re feeling down. No one else is likely to.” – Catherine DeVrye
- “Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going.” – Roy T. Bennett
- “As I said there is nothing wrong with failing. Pick yourself up and try it again. You never are going to know how good you really are until you go out and face failure.” – Henry Kravis
- “Those who move forward with a happy spirit will find that things always work out.” – Gordon B. Hinkley
- “Dishonor comes only when you don’t force yourself to get back up – especially when you can get back up, but you refuse to do it.” – George Foreman
- “Moving forward is one of the most important decisions we can make in life, because it allows us to grow, learn new lessons, have more energy, enjoying more peace, and overcome our adversities.” – Dr. Peter Nieman
- “If you have fallen down, you cannot go further down, so pick yourself up and aim high, you’ve got nothing to lose.” – Unarine Ramaru
- “Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.” – Dale Carnegie
- “Then you get back up and fight some more. Each time you get back up another notch of character is added to your belt.” – Patrick Muenchen
- “Pick yourself up, dust yourself off, start all over again.” – Dorothy Fields
- “March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life’s path.” – Kahlil Gibran
- “We can get back up and try again tomorrow, just like lots of people before us.” – Steve Smothermon
- “We can either respond with attitude or platitude, we can either get up and take control of our lives in spite what may have happened, and begin to steer our lives in the direction we want to get out of the circumstance or, we can sit down and wallow in pains and play the victim, it is all our choice and is entirely up to us.” – David King
- “But now is the time to get up and start living the life that you were born to live.” – G.D. Budhiraja
- “We all fall off the wagon. it’s only one day, it’s not the rest of your life. Pick yourself up and go again.” – Nikki Sixx
- “You just do it. You force yourself to get up. You force yourself to put one foot before the other. You fight. You cry. You curse. Then you go about the business of living. That’s how I’ve done it. There’s no other way.” – Elizabeth Taylor
- “If you can live with the ups and downs, pick yourself up every morning, then there’s nothing more gratifying.” – Rick Welts
- “I don’t think you should just do what makes you happy. Do what makes you great. Do what’s uncomfortable and scare and hard but pays off in the long run… let yourself fail. And pick yourself up and fail again. Without that struggle, what is your success anyway?” – Charlie Day
- “Just knowing that you can get back up makes the process easier.” – David Douglas
- “Even if you find yourself a victim of someone else’s envy and strife and end up in a pit, you can get back up.” – Linda J. Payne
- “You will fall many times in life, but you will pick yourself up and become stronger and wiser for each trouble you pass.” – Leon Brown
- “The bravery lies in moving forward, no matter what.” – Lauren Oliver
- “You know you’re going to get burned from time to time. It’s just part of the game. So when it happens you have to pick yourself up, dust yourself off and forget about it because they’re about to snap the ball again.” – Michael Connelly
- “Our scars make us who we are. Wear them proudly, and move forward.” – Jane Linfoot
- “Everyone has egos, and you want to come out on top. You have to pick yourself up and go at it again.” – Caprice Bourret
- “If I just keep putting one foot in front of the other, it stands to reason that I’m going to get there.” – Rachel Joyce
- “Persistence can change failure into extraordinary achievement.” – Marv Levy
- “One fails forward toward success.” – Charles Kettering
- “Having perseverance is all about being able to bounce back and keep moving forward.” – Jason Scotts
- “You always have two options, either sit and regret about failure or bounce back and overcome failure in life. Choice is yours.” – Invajy
- “Let’s dare to promote ourselves to better ‘us’ by working hard and moving forwards instead of regretting and rewinding the past.” – Pantea Kalhor
- “Learning, empowering, studying, practicing, and not repeating the same mistakes will help you push forward, move up, and move on to where you want to be.” – Loren Weisman
- “When successful people fail, they never give up, because to them, failure is not a stop sign, rather they learn for their failure, they get up, and get back in the game.” – David Adeyanju
- “When you fall, love allows you to forgive yourself and others so that you can get back up. When you fall, love provides the strength to move forward.” – Torion Kent
- “Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” – Robert F. Kennedy
- “As an adult when you fall (on the ground), you typically get back up. What do you typically do when you fall in life? Get back up? If you don’t, you should.” – Torion Kent
- “Sometimes you just have to pick yourself up and carry on.” – Anonymous
- “The answer to every adversity lies in courageously moving forward with faith.” – Edmond Mbiaka
- “I must get up and live in the abundance of life.” – Elizabeth N. Hutson
- “Literally falling on the ice and having to pick yourself up in front of thousands of people is not an easy thing to do. The thing that you learn is to pick yourself back up, to learn from your mistakes.” – Michelle Kwan
- “Don’t bury your failures, let them inspire you.” – Robert Kiyosaki
- “Everybody, at some point in their life, has fallen down and not felt like getting back up, but you have to, no matter how difficult it is.” – Charlie Hunnam
- “The best part of falling is getting back up again.” – David Belle
- “FEARLESS is getting back up and fighting for what you want over and over again….even though every time you’ve tried before you’ve lost.” – Taylor Swift
- “You can’t lose confidence in yourself, or you’ve lost already. When you get knocked down, you’ve got to keep getting back up.” – Tim Tebow
