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Failure.

Lessons from setbacks, mistakes, and the path to resilience.

“I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.”

“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”

Benjamin Franklin

“It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”

“Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.”

“Failure isn't a percentage or a test. It's not a single event. It's a process.”

John C. Maxwell

“There is no doubt in my mind that there are many ways to be a winner, but there is really only one way to be a loser and that is to fail and not look beyond the failure.”

“When we give ourselves permission to fail, we at the same time give ourselves permission to excel.”

John C. Maxwell

“Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”

“When words fail, music speaks.”

William Shakespeare

“The first important step in weathering failure is sure you know that your failure does not make you a failure.”

John C. Maxwell

“One reason God created time was so that there would be a place to bury the failures of the past.”

“Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.”

Richard Branson

“You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.”

“Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.”

“You are not defeated when you lose. You are defeated when you quit.”

“It doesn't really matter how fast you're going if you're heading in the wrong direction.”

“Ninety-nine percent of failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.”

George Washington Carver

“By failing to prepare you are preparing to fail.”

Benjamin Franklin

“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies.”

“It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.”

“Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.”

Saint Augustine

“Most people fail to realize that in life, it's not how much money you make, it's how much money you keep.”

Robert Kiyosaki

“I'd rather be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and right.”

“The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment.”

Napoleon Bonaparte

“99% of all failures come from people who have a habit of making excuses.”

George Washington Carver

“If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.”

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.”

Winston Churchill

“The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.”

“Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.”

Benjamin Franklin

“We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man's terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.”

G.K. Chesterton

“Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.”

John C. Maxwell

“Scccccratccch the most clever postmodern-relativist professor’s Mercedes with a key, and you will see how fast the mask of relativism (with its pretense that there can be neither right nor wrong) and the cloak of radical tolerance come off.”

Jordan Peterson

“Your attitude toward failure determines your altitude after failure.”

John C. Maxwell

“All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.”

“If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.”

“Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.”

“Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.”

Marcus Aurelius

“Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.”

“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”

“The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.”

Thomas Jefferson

“When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.”

“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.”

“The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.”

“I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.”

“The most important thing in life is not to capitalize on our gains, any fool can do that. The really important thing is to profit from your losses. That requires intelligence; and it makes the difference between a man of sense and a fool.”

William Bolitho

“It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.”

Thomas Jefferson

“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.”

George S. Patton

“Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.”

“Anyone who thinks my story is anywhere near over is sadly mistaken.”