Failure is a prerequisite for great success. If you want to succeed faster, double your rate of failure.

Brian Tracy

The only way to get ahead is to fail early, fail often, and fail forward.

John Maxwell

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

Confucius

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.

Michael Jordan

There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.

Archibald McLeish

The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.

Lloyd Jones

The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.

William Connor Magee

I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

Michael Jordan

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and the good learn wisdom for the future.

Plutarch

You cannot have success without the failures.

H. G. Hasler

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

Dale Carnegie

Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.

Peter T. McIntyre

There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.

Archibald McLeish

It’s better to do the right thing wrong, than the wrong thing right

Russell Ackoff

Judgment comes from experience - and experience comes from bad judgment.

Walter Wriston

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but also more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

Was mich nicht umbringt, macht mich stärker

Friedrich Nietzsche

You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

Always make new mistakes.

Esther Dyson

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

John Powell

To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.

Victoria Holt

I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Thomas Edison

The man who does things makes many mistakes, but he never makes the biggest mistake of all - doing nothing.

Benjamin Franklin

Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Napoleon Hill 

If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Franklin D. Roosevelt 

Failures are fingers posts on the road to achievement.

C.S. Lewis

The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Chinese Proverb

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Robert Schuller

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

Thomas Edison 

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

Zig Ziglar

The only people who never fail are those who never try.

Ilka Chase

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never have tried to succeed.

Theodore Roosevelt

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

Henry Ford

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

Albert Einstein

We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure - all your life.

John W. Gardner

A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his client to plant vines.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

Samuel Beckett

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Albert Einstein

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.

George Soros (György Schwartz voor intimi)

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Winston Churchill