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.

You want to create a space in which people feel safe to think outside the box, test new approaches, and yes, even fail.

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

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

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

"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it."

Do not waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

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

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

Sorrow, disappointment, failure – learn from them. Then let them go.

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

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

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

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

Talk about your failures without apologizing.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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”.

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

Impossible is for the unwilling.

No pressure, no diamonds.

Stay foolish to stay sane.

Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

He who is brave is free.