Just because you have failed, that doesn’t make you a failure. And just because you have lost, that doesn’t make you a loser.
The difference between a winner and a loser – they both failed, but the winner gets back up and does it again and again until it goes his way.
It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation. He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. Failure is the true test of greatness.
If you don’t fall, how are you going to know what getting up is like?
You never lose until you actually give up.
The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
Do not feel bad about your mistakes or those of others. Love them! Remember that one: they are to be expected; two: they’re the first and most essential part of the learning process; and three: feeling bad about them will prevent you from getting better.
You’re never a loser until you quit trying.
The genius thing that we did was, we didn’t give up.
If something is important enough, you should try, even if the probable outcome is failure.
When we got Tesla going at the very beginning, if you asked me what I thought the odds of success were, I would have said less than 50%. I would have said that failure is the most likely outcome.
My mentality is that of a samurai. I would rather commit seppuku than fail.
I started SpaceX with the expectation of failure.
Why do we Fall? So we can learn to pick ourselves back up.
If you fail to prepare, you’re prepared to fail.
I cannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is: try to please everybody.
You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.
Nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks. Fall forward. Every failed experiment is one step closer to success.
Don’t be afraid to fail big, to dream big.
Move fast, take risks. It’s okay to try big things. You’re better off trying something and having it not work, than not having done anything at all.