When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?

With a hint of good judgment, to fear nothing, not failure or suffering or even death, indicates that you value life the most. You live to the extreme; you push limits; you spend your time building legacies. Those do not die.

No human ever became interesting by not failing. The more you fail and recover and improve, the better you are as a person. Ever meet someone who's always had everything work out for them with zero struggle? They usually have the depth of a puddle. Or they don't exist.

Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success. I've met people who don't want to try for fear of failing.

It's not how far you fall, but how high you bounce that counts.

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.

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success.

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

We are all failures at least the best of us are.

I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless.

Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

It's failure that gives you the proper perspective on success.

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.

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

If you don't try at anything, you can't fail it takes back bone to lead the life you want

Giving up is the only sure way to fail.

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.

The phoenix must burn to emerge.

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

Everything you want is on the other side of fear.

Failure isn't fatal, but failure to change might be

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

One who fears failure limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again.

Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. - Robert F. Kennedy

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

When we give ourselves permission to fail, we, at the same time, give ourselves permission to excel.

My tombstone? I'm thinking something along the lines of, 'Geez, he was just here a minute ago.'

Success is just a war of attrition. Sure, there's an element of talent you should probably possess. But if you just stick around long enough, eventually something is going to happen.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really: Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, so go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that's where you will find success.

Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.

What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail?

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.

To be successful you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can't just accept the ones you like.

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

Our greatest fear should not be of failure ... but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.

The No. 1 reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.

Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don't wish it were easier; wish you were better.

If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you!

You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something--your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.