Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

Failure to observe what is in the mind of another has seldom made a man unhappy; but those who do not observe the movements of their own minds must of necessity be unhappy.

Stay foolish to stay sane.

Every time they told me “no”, I just got stronger.

Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say “so what”. That’s one of my favorite things to say: “So what”.

Try to acquire the weird practice of savoring your mistakes, delighting in uncovering the strange quirks that led you astray.

When you make a mistake, you should learn to take a deep breath, grit your teeth, and then examine your own recollections of the mistake as ruthlessly and as dispassionately as you can manage.

You are not your idea, and if you identify too closely with your ideas, you will take offense when they are challenged.

Being open about problems is the first step toward learning from them… We must think of the cost of failure as an investment in the future.

Failure is painful, and our feelings about this pain tend to screw up our understanding of its worth. To disentangle the good and the bad parts of failure, we have to recognize both the reality of the pain and the benefit of the resulting growth.

Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it. 

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

No human ever became interesting by not failing. The more you fail and recover and improve, the better you are as a person.

Talk about your failures without apologizing.

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.

Once the ego inflates it will only come back to earth through some jarring failure.

You must cut yourself loose from the past and open your eyes to the present.

Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Failure always brings something valuable with it. I don’t let it leave until I extract that value.

A failure doesn’t mean you are unworthy, nor does it preclude success on the next try.

Don’t bury your failures, let them inspire you.

I don’t understand a way to work other than bold-facedly running towards failure.

It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.

We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes—understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success.