Failure

Nikola Tesla
“Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more. ” — Nikola Tesla
Oprah Winfrey
“Failing is another stepping stone to greatness.” — Oprah Winfrey
Benjamin Franklin
“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” — Benjamin Franklin
Roy T. Bennett
“Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying.” — Roy T. Bennett
John Wooden
“Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.” — John Wooden
Robert Kiyosaki
“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 Kiyosaki
Arnold Schwarzenegger
“Winners are not people who never fail, but people who never quit.” — Arnold Schwarzenegger
Beverly Sills
“You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. ” — Beverly Sills
Woody Allen
“If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.” — Woody Allen
Coco Chanel
“Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.” — Coco Chanel
Napoleon Hill
“Most great people have achieved their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.” — Napoleon Hill
Henry David Thoreau
“Goodness is the only investment that never fails.” — Henry David Thoreau
Mark Manson
“If you want to change how you see your problems, you have to change what you value and/or how you measure failure/success.” — Mark Manson
Morihei Ueshiba
“Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something.” — Morihei Ueshiba
Michael Jordan
“The key to success is failure.” — Michael Jordan
Colin Powell
“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.” — Colin Powell
James Allen
“They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.” — James Allen
John Lennon
“A mistake is only an error, it becomes a mistake when you fail to correct it.” — John Lennon
Paulo Coelho
“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.” — Paulo Coelho
Theodore Roosevelt
“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.” — Theodore Roosevelt
Zig Ziglar
“Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker. ” — Zig Ziglar
Winston Churchill
“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” — Winston Churchill
Samuel Beckett
“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better. ” — Samuel Beckett
Og Mandino
“Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you are going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day!” — Og Mandino
Lily Tomlin
“Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.” — Lily Tomlin
Zig Ziglar
“The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want right now.” — Zig Ziglar
Alfred Adler
“No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.” — Alfred Adler
James Allen
“All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.” — James Allen
Brian Tracy
“Most people achieved their greatest success one step beyond what looked like their greatest failure.” — Brian Tracy
Winston Churchill
“Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm” — Winston Churchill
Ronald Reagan
“Many a man has failed because he had his wishbone where his backbone should have been.” — Ronald Reagan
Elon Musk
“Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.” — Elon Musk
Hans Christian Andersen
“Where words fail, music speaks.” — Hans Christian Andersen
Confucius
“A man is great not because he hasn't failed; a man is great because failure hasn't stopped him.” — Confucius
Lolly Daskal
“Many people spend more time looking at their failures than focusing on their successes.” — Lolly Daskal
Thomas Edison
“Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” — Thomas Edison
Herman Melville
“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” — Herman Melville
Beverly Sills
“You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.” — Beverly Sills
Winston Churchill
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” — Winston Churchill
Og Mandino
“Failure is the highway to success.” — Og Mandino
Jack Butcher
“Failure is feedback. Learn from it and move on.” — Jack Butcher
Genghis Khan
“an action committed in anger is an action doomed to failure. ” — Genghis Khan
Robert F. Kennedy
“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” — Robert F. Kennedy
Brian Tracy
“Failure is a prerequisite for great success. If you want success faster, double your rate of failure.” — Brian Tracy
Colin R. Davis
“The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.” — Colin R. Davis
Norman Vaughan
“Dream big and dare to fail.” — Norman Vaughan
Steve Harvey
“Failure means you've now learned another valuable lesson that pushes you one step closer to success.” — Steve Harvey
Oprah Winfrey
“Failure is a great teacher. If you're open to it every mistake has a lesson to offer.” — Oprah Winfrey
Naval Ravikant
“Good entrepreneurs don't fail because they stay at it.” — Naval Ravikant
Unknown
“He who fails to plan, plans to fail.” — Unknown

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