It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default.
There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
Failure is simply an opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
I was set free, because my greatest fear had already been realized, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don’t.
The true measure of success is how many times you can bounce back from failure.
Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
There are no secrets to success: don’t waste time looking for them. Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty to those for whom you work, and persistence.
Failure is an event, not a person.
Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
You can't be paralyzed by fear of failure or you will never push yourself. You keep pushing because you believe in yourself and in your vision. And you know that it is the right thing to do and success will come.
Failure is not the opposite of success; it’s part of success.
I’d rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.
For every failure, there’s an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don’t fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.
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.