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.

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.

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

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

It’s not how far you fall, but how high you bounce that counts.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Acquire the contemplative way of seeing how all things change into one another, and constantly attend to it, and exercise yourself about this part of philosophy. For nothing is so much adapted to produce magnanimity.

When it comes to all we’re required to go through, we’re equals. No one is more vulnerable than the next man, and no one can be more sure of his surviving to the morrow.

If any man is able to convince me and show me that I do not think or act right, I will gladly change; for I seek the truth by which no man was ever injured. But he is injured who abides in his error and ignorance.

“I am unhappy, because this has happened to me.” Not so: say, “I am happy, though this has happened to me, because I continue free from pain, neither crushed by the present nor fearing the future.”

A setback has often cleared the way for greater prosperity. Many things have fallen only to rise to more exalted heights.

Another thing which will help you is to turn your mind to other thoughts and that way get away from your suffering. Call to mind things which you have done that have been upright or courageous; run over in your mind the finest parts you have played.

Don’t be ashamed to need help. Like a soldier storming a wall, you have a mission to accomplish. And if you’ve been wounded and you need a comrade to pull you up? So what?

There are times when even to live is an act of bravery.

I don’t mind losing as long as I see improvement or I feel I’ve done as well as I possibly could.

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

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.

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.

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.

There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure — all your life. It’s as simple as that. J

The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.

The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.

The person who failed often knows how to avoid future failures. The person who knows only success can be more oblivious to all the pitfalls.

When you’re down in the hole, when that moment comes, it’s really okay to feel bad for a little while — give yourself time to mourn what you think you may have lost — but, then, here’s the key: Learn from every mistake.

Every experience, encounter, and particularly your mistakes are there to teach you and force you into being more of who you are.

No matter what challenges or setbacks or disappointments you may encounter along the way, you will find true success and happiness if you have only one goal — there really is only one, and that is this: To fulfill the highest, most truthful expression of yourself as a human being.

The heart will break, but broken live on.

No worldly success can compensate for failure in the home.

You got to go down a lot of wrong roads to find the right one.

Yes, I am imperfect and vulnerable and sometimes afraid, but that doesn’t change the truth that I am brave and worthy of love and belonging.

I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.

“Trying” is the biggest mistake you can make early on in a relationship. It sets a false expectation that you will eventually tire of.

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.

I’m not crying because of you; you’re not worth it. I’m crying because my delusion of who you were was shattered by the truth of who you are.

Ever has it been that loves knows not its own death until the hour of separation.

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved.

Don’t brood. Get on with living and loving. You don’t have forever.

My best successes came on the heels of failures.

Success is not built on success. It’s built on failure. It’s built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.

People settle. They settle for less than they are capable of.

Quit or be exceptional. Average is for losers.

A little more persistence a little more effort and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

You can measure your worth by your dedication to your path, not by your successes or failures.