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.

When you enter a mindset, you enter a new world. In one world (the world of fixed traits) success is about proving you’re smart or talented. Validating yourself. In the other (the world of changing qualities) it’s about stretching yourself to learn something new. Developing yourself.

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education.

Learning to fail well means learning to understand your mistakes, because unless you know what went wrong, you may do the wrong things to correct it.

If you are afraid to learn from your mistakes, you will more than likely keep repeating them.

Just because you fail once doesn’t mean you’re gonna fail at everything.

Turn pain into progress. To be wrong as fast as you can is to sign up for aggressive, rapid learning.

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

Failure is not a bug of learning, it’s the feature.

You don’t have to hold yourself hostage to who you used to be.

If you don’t try at anything you can’t fail… it takes back bone to lead the life you want.

I feel there’s an existential angst among young people. I didn’t have that. They see enormous mountains, where I only saw one little hill to climb.

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

What is the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable?

Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.

Failure is a state of mind. It’s like one of those sand traps an ant lion digs. You keep sliding back. Takes one hell of a jump to get out of it.

Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you’re willing to risk failure.

You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call ‘failure’ is not the falling down, but the staying down.

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again. Richard Branson