“The moral flabbiness born of the exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess SUCCESS. That - with the squalid cash interpretation put on the word 'success' - is our national disease.

“The whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all.” 

“The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.” 

Even the worst shit that happens to you can be converted into gold if you are clever enough.

I didn’t fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

If at first you don’t succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.

Failure changes for the better, success for the worse.

It’s much, much better to wind up with a lot of crap having tried it than to overthink in the beginning and not do it.

It is very important to embrace failure and to do a lot of stuff — as much stuff as possible — with as little fear as possible.

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

The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.

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

There is no failure unless one stops. Not to work is to cease, tighten up, become nervous and therefore destructive of the creative process.

Failure doesn’t kill you… it increases your desire to make something happen.

A hundred failures would not matter, when one single success could change the destiny of the world.

Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments. Therefore, each moment is vital. It affects the whole. Life is a succession of such moments and to live each, is to succeed.

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it. 

Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.

You build on failure. You use it as a steppingstone. 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. Johnny Cash

Failure either ruins you or turns you into the man you can become.

"Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world."

Apprentice yourself in failure.

You always pass failure on the way to success.

Failure is success if we learn from it.