“This is one of the most important lessons of the scientific method: if you cannot fail, you cannot win.”— Eric Ries, amazon.com
“Failure is good. Not the kind that crushes you, but the kind that inspires you, the kind that drives you on. Failure is a challenge. It is healthy. In a field where all you need is a paper and a pencil, what have you got to lose? I learn by failures.”— John Fante, amazon.com
“Let me tell you something, kid. Our successes never teach us anything. They pat you on the back and send you on your way. But our failures turn upside down and inside out and give us everything we ever had.”— Gene Kelly, hollywoodreporter.com
“What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.”— Wendell Phillips, amazon.com
“You had to have the man who after defeat would come up and try again and if he was defeated again come up and try again until he rested from defeat the splendid ultimate triumph.”— Theodore Roosevelt, amazon.com
“'The best thing to ever happen to Steve is when we fired him, told him to get lost,' Arthur Rock later said. The theory, shared by many, is that tough love made him wiser and more mature. But it's not that simple. At the company he founded after being ousted from Apple, Jobs was able to indulge all…”— Walter Isaacson, amazon.com
“Trials unlock their virtues; defeat is the threshold of their victory. It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible.”— Orison Swett Marden, amazon.com
“The way you don't change poison into medicine is by doing what most of us do when everything we can think of to solve a problem fails. Which is go back to things we've already tried. Because they still won't work.”— Alex Lickerman MD, amazon.com
“We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.”— Samuel Smiles, amazon.com
“He that refuses instruction despises his own soul; but he that hears reproof gets understanding.”— Proverbs 15:32, amazon.com
“You tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is 'never try.'”— Matt Groening, Homer Simpson, amazon.com
“Rock bottom became the solid foundation in which I rebuilt my life.”— J.K. Rowling, harvardmagazine.com
“Resilience isn't a single skill. It's a variety of skills and coping mechanisms. To bounce back from bumps in the road as well as failures, you should focus on emphasizing the positive.”— Jean Chatzky, nydailynews.com
“Often people that criticise your life are usually the same people that don't know the price you paid to get where you are today. True friends see the full picture of your soul.”— Shannon Alder, facebook.com
“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com