Don't fear failure...in great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

There can be glory in failure and despair in success.

Don't fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing.

If you know you are going to fail, then fail gloriously.

Greatly he failed, but he had greatly dared.

How glorious it is – and also how painful – to be an exception.

The greater the effort,
the greater the glory.

It’s better to fail while striving for something wonderful, challenging, adventurous, and uncertain than to say, ‘I don’t want to try because I may not succeed completely.

Failure is success in progress

Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.

every failure is also a victory.

It's so freeing, it's beautiful in a way, to have a great failure, there's nowhere to go but up.

Himmlisch ist's wenn ich bezwungen Meine irdische Begier; Aber doch wenn's nich gelungen Hatt' ich auch recht huebsch Plaisir!

Loosely translated:

It is heavenly, when I overcome
My earthly desires
But nevertheless, when I'm not successful,
It can also be quite pleasurable.