The desire to fail on the way to reaching a bigger goal is the untold secret of success.

If you accept your misfortune and handle it right, your perceived failure can become a catalyst to profound reinvention.

The people who have the ability to fail in public under their own name actually gain a lot of power.

Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

Change is powerful, but change always comes with the possibility of failure as its partner. “This might not work” isn’t merely something to be tolerated; it’s something you must seek out.

The people who have the ability to fail in public under their own names actually gain a lot of power.

Extraordinary individuals fail often and sometimes dramatically. Rather than giving up, however, they are challenged to learn from their setbacks and to convert defeats into opportunities.

Failure really can be an asset if what you’re trying to do is improve, learn, or do something new.

Failure inspires winners. Failure defeats losers.

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

Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.

Success requires shamelessness. So too does failure.

Fear of failure, I thought, will never be our downfall as a company. No that any of us thought we wouldn't fail; in fact we had every expectation that we would. But when we did fail, we had faith that we'd do it fast, learn from it, and be better for it.

the pursuit of success can be a catalyst for failure. Put another way, success can distract us from focusing on the essential things that produce success in the first place.