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Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
Sep 16, 2025
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success.
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.
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man - and I will show you a failure.
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.
If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.
Failure is blindness to the strategic element in events; success is readiness for instant action when the opportune moment arrives.
It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.
Champions keep playing until they get it right.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something.
There is no failure except in no longer trying.
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
Do one thing every day that scares you.
Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
Do your best with what you have where you are.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.
If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.
Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
There is nothing more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
The world is full of educated derelicts.
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Courage is the ability to go from failure to failure with enthusiasm.
In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.