I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.

I’m not going to get somewhere and say, ‘OK, I’m done.’ Success is never final; I’ll just keep on going. The same way as failure never being fatal. Just keep going. I’m going to the stars and then past them.

In my experience, each failure contains the seeds of your next success – if you are willing to learn from it.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

It is a mistake to suppose that people succeed through success; they often succeed through failures.

The only real failure is the failure to try, and the measure of success is how we cope with disappointment.

Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.

Even those who venture to dip a toe in the pond of risk never allow themselves to get used to the water.

Like success, failure is many things to many people. With positive mental attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, and a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order to prepare to try again.

Nothing fails like success because we don’t learn from it. We learn only from failure.

It doesn’t matter how far you might rise — at some point, you are bound to stumble. Because if you’re constantly doing what we do — raising the bar — if you’re constantly pushing yourself higher, higher, the law of averages predicts that you will, at some point, fall.

Remember this: There is no such thing as failure — failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.

There are defeats more triumphant than victories.

"It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth."

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

Face failure head on, don’t be afraid of it, and people will support and welcome you even more.

I don’t want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

If you’re waiting until you feel talented enough to make it, you’ll never make it.

Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success.

I must say a word about fear. It is life’s only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how well I know.

It has no decency, respects no law or convention, shows no mercy. It goes for your weakest spot, which it finds with unnerving ease.

 It begins in your mind, always… so you must fight hard to express it. You must fight hard to shine the light of words upon it.

There is no growth or success without change.

The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you’ve got to have a ‘What the hell?’ attitude.

You must always be prepared to place a bet on yourself, on your future, by heading in a direction that others seem to fear.

Why waste time proving over and over how great you are, when you could be getting better? Carol S. Dweck

Don’t wait for things to be perfect before you share them with others. Show early and show often. It’ll be pretty when we get there, but it won’t be pretty along the way.

When it comes to creative endeavors, the concept of zero failures is worse than useless. It’s counterproductive.

Work finally begins when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly.

Don’t worry about failure – you only have to be right once.

Failure and invention are inseparable twins.

We don’t have to do all of it alone. We were never meant to.

You gotta act. And you gotta be willing to fail… if you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.

If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative.

Most competitors quit long before they’ve created something that makes it to the top.

Short term pain has more impact on most people than long-term benefits do, which is why it’s so important for you to amplify the long-term benefits of not quitting.

In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is a failure. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible.

Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.

The only risk of failure is promotion.

You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures.

We don’t need to celebrate failure. We do need to make it safe to admit failure – that’s how we learn from mistakes.

Failure doesn’t define you. It’s what you do after you fail that determines whether you are a leader or a waste of perfectly good air.

Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that. The Titanic saved lives because we’re building bigger and bigger ships. So these people died, but we have effectively improved the safety of the system, and nothing failed in vain.

I’m not the first to say that failure, when approached properly, can be an opportunity for growth.

In a fear-based, failure-averse culture, people will consciously or unconsciously avoid risk. They will seek instead to repeat something safe that’s been good enough in the past. Their work will be derivative, not innovative. But if you can foster a positive understanding of failure, the opposite will happen.

People driven by a pursuit that puts them on the edges are often not on the periphery, but on the frontier, testing the limits of what it is possible to withstand and discover.

If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original.

Any being, any agent, who can truly say, “Well, it seemed like a good idea at the time!” is standing on the threshold of brilliance.

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.