•“I assumed that everything would lead to complete failure, but I decided that didn't matter – that would be my life. ” 
― Jasper Johns

•“If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.” 
― Ken Robinson

•“it's not how far you fall, but how high you bounce that counts.” 
― Zig Ziglar

•“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.” 
― Thomas A. Edison

•“If you fall, you fall," Elodin shrugged. "Sometimes falling teaches us things too." In dreams you often fall before you wake.” 
― Patrick Rothfuss

•“You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.” 
― Beverly Sills

•“Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit.” 
― Napoleon Hill 

•“I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.” 
― John Keats

•“If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.” 
― Zig Ziglar 

•“Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again. Most of us adults are so afraid, so cautious, so 'safe,' and therefore so shrinking and rigid and afraid that it is why so many humans fail. Most middle-aged adults have resigned themselves to failure.” 
― Malcolm X

•“Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.” 
― Jim Rohn 

•“Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.” 
― Napoleon Hill

•“My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.” 
― Abraham Lincoln 

•“Don't worry about being effective. Just concentrate on being faithful to the truth.” 
― Dorothy Day

•“Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.” 
― Benjamin Disraeli

•“Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.” 
― Zig Ziglar

•“Failures plagued me. Things I had omitted or ignored, neglected. What I should have given and hadn’t. I felt the biting pang of every unfulfillment.” 
― Richard Matheson

•“Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.” 
― Robert H. Schuller

•“It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.” 
― Jimmy Carter 

•“Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.” 
― Zig Ziglar 

•“When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.” 
― Ellen DeGeneres

•“It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.” 
― Roger Babson 

•“Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success.” 
― Robert T. Kiyosaki

•“They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.” 
― James Allen

•“What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise” 
― Oscar Wilde

•“But instead of spending our lives running towards our dreams, we are often running away from a fear of failure or a fear of criticism.” 
― Eric Wright

•“If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.” 
― Woody Allen 

•“The person who failed often knows how to avoid future failures. The person who knows only success can be more oblivious to all the pitfalls.” 
― Randy Pausch

•“Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal.” 
― Mike Ditka 

•“if you don’t try at anything, you can’t fail… it takes back bone to lead the life you want” 
― Richard Yates

•“Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.” 
― Napoleon Hill 

•“If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.” 
― H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

•“Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.” 
― C.S. Lewis

•“The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.” 
― George Eliot 

•“I've reached the age where bruises are formed from failures within rather than accidents without.” 
― Nicole Krauss

•“Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.” 
― Shahrukh Khan 

•“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.” 
― Henry Ford

•“Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.” 
― Knute Rockne 

•“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.” 
― Henry Ford

•“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.” 
― Mary Kay Ash 

•“If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.” 
― H.G. Wells

•“Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.” 
― Thomas A. Edison 

•“Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. ” 
― Coco Chanel

•“Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.” 
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

•“Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.” 
― Lily Tomlin 

•“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” 
― Robert F. Kennedy

•“We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!” 
― William Lloyd Garrison 

•“Why are you going to choose failure when success is an option?” 
― Jillian Michaels

•“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.” 
― Theodore Roosevelt

•“Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.” 
― John Wooden 

•“Just because you fail once doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything.” 
― Marilyn Monroe

•“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.” 
― J. K. Rowling 

•“My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.” 
― Jack Kerouac

•“Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.” 
― Orlando Bloom 

•“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.” 
― Truman Capote

•“I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.” 
― Tom Hopkins 

•“It's failure that gives you the proper perspective on success.” 
― Ellen DeGeneres

•“Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.” 
― George Canning 

•“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.” 
― Paulo Coelho

•“Failure? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.” 
― Dottie Walters

•“Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.” 
― Michael Korda 

•“Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.” 
― Og Mandino 

•“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” 
― Winston Churchill