“I don’t fear failure. I only fear the slowing up of the engine inside of me which is pounding, saying, ‘Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?'” ~ General George S. Patton
“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” ~ George B. Shaw
“Error is discipline through which we advance.” ~ Channing
“Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time.” ~ Josh Billings
“We learn wisdom from failure much more than success. We often discover what we will do, by finding out what we won’t do.” ~ Samuel Smiles
“I failed my way to success.” ~ Thomas Edison
“You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.” ~ Beverly Sills
“Fear of failure is one attitude that will keep you at the same point in your life.” ~ Byron Pulsifer
“Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.” ~ Winston Churchill
“The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.” ~ Unknown
“It doesn’t matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.” ~ Charles Kettering
“Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.” ~ Charles F. Kettering
“Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.” ~ Robert Louis
“In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.” ~ Anthony D’Angelo
“If it turns out that my best wasn’t good enough, at least I won’t look back and say that I was afraid to try; failure makes me work even harder.” ~ Michael Jordan
“My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Most people achieved their greatest success one step beyond what looked like their greatest failure.” ~ Brian Tracy
“Many of life’s failures are men who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” ~ Thomas Edison
“It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.” ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” ~ Robert F. Kennedy