Failure is the foundation of success, and the means by which it is achieved.

~ Lao Tzu

Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently... More

~ Henry Ford

Failure is the mother of successes.

~ Chinese proverb

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

~ Albert Einstein

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

~ Dalai Lama

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

~ Dale Carnegie

What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better.

~ Wendell Phillips

Once you embrace unpleasant news not as negative but as evidence of a need for change, you aren't defeated by it. You're learning from it.

~ Bill Gates

One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.

~ Anton Chekhov

On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear... More

~ Bhagavad Gita

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

A beaten one is worth two unbeaten ones.

~ Russian Proverb

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

~ Igor Stravinski

Many people dream of success. To me success can only achieved through repeated failure and introspection. In fact, success represents the 1% of your work that results from the 99% that is called failure.

~ Soichiro Honda

I have not failed 700 times. I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.

~ Thomas Edison

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.

~ Johnny Cash

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

~ James Joyce

Fail small to succeed big.

~ Vadim Kotelnikov

Try and fail, but don't fail to try.

~ Stephen Kaggwa

You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures.

~ Charles C. Noble

Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.

~ Confucius

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.

~ Winston Churchill

The essential part of creativity is not being afraid to fail.

~ Greta Scacchi

To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, But risk must be taken, Because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.

~ Leo Buscaglia

If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.

~ Woody Allen

There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.

~ Aldous Huxsley

Don't be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.

~ Akio Morita

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

~ Elbert Hubbard

If you have made mistakes… there is always another chance for you.. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.

~ Mary Pickford

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

~ Napoleon Hill

I've always believed no matter how many shots I miss, I'm going to make the next one.

~ Jonathan Swift

A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday.

~ Jonathan Swift

Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.

~ Wilma Rudolph

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

~ Zig Ziglar