Failure is a teacher — imperfect, honest, and often the doorway to courage. As Babe Ruth encouraged us: “Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.”

Never give up on a man until he's failed at something he likes. ~ Lewis E. Lowes

Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure. ~ Jack Lemmon

In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that comfortable vanity that whispers failures are not faults! ~ Agnes Repplier

Failure is feedback. ~ Billie Jean King

Zeus does not bring all men's plans to fulfillment. ~ Homer

Give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

We are all of us failures — at least, the best of us are. ~ James M. Barrie

Failure + Flexibility = Fantastic! ~ Jan Goldberg, Perfectionism

I've always lived by the creed that you're never a failure in life when you fall as long as you try and get up. ~ Evel Knievel

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success. ~ Paramahansa Yogananda

Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success; every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true. ~ John Keats

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. ~ Samuel Beckett

Failure, to me, is not having the desire to try. Having the desire to try is in its own way success. ~ Bobby Knight

You need to learn what people have done, and where they have failed… usually the failure is in the execution. ~ Colin Powell

Ignore past failures and forge ahead. ~ Maxwell Maltz

A series of failures may culminate in the best possible result. ~ Gisela Richter

About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure. ~ Tommy Lasorda

Accept failure as a normal part of living. Make a note of its lessons and move on. ~ Tom Greening