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

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

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

There is no growth or success without change.

 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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

There are defeats more triumphant than victories.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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