“You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.”
“There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.”
“Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.”
“Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.”
“Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.”
“There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.”
“The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.”
“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort.”
“It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.”
“No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.”
“Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.”
“Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.”
“You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.”
“I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure -- which is try to please everybody.”
“Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.”
“The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.”
“The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.”
“Failure is only postponed success as long as courage ''coaches'' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.”
“Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.”
“Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.”
“Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.”
“To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.”
“A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.”
“Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.”
“No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.”
“It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.”
“Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.”
“Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on.”
“You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.”
“To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.”