“You learn much more from failure than success, and honestly analyzing one’s failures can lead to the type of introspection that helps us grow — as well as show that the path to success isn’t a straight line.”— Tim Herrera, nytimes.com
“And just like that, the Creativity Workshop by Caroline Calloway ascended into failed influencer-event heaven. I imagine the ghost of Fyre Festival met it at the gates.”— Madison Malone Kircher, thecut.com
“In science, knowing what doesn’t work is just as important as knowing what does.”— Eric Buchman, Patterson, Ashley Johnson, imdb.com
“Don't use failure as a reason to quit. Use it as a lesson that will help you get better.”— Ryan Pernofski, twitter.com
“I stopped feeling bad about the prospect of letting myself down. I welcomed a future in which I failed.”— Katie Heaney, tinyletter.com
“People will tell you things about the world, ways in which they think you might fail. Some of the things they tell you might be right. Failure can be survived. Keep making a list of your best version, and keep ticking items off. Keep learning. Write your world.”— Maria Dahvana Headley, twitter.com
“Each and everyone of us is a being of limited duration: all of us eventually go down to defeat. But as Earnest Hemingway saw so clearly, the ultimate value of our lives is decided not by how we win but by how we lose.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“To all those who tweet at me saying that they 'hope I fail,' I have failed many times many times in my life. But more importantly, I’ve learned from every setback, proudly own up to my mistakes, grown from disappointments, and now I’m a glamazon bitch ready for the runway.”— Adam Rippon, twitter.com
“No need to second guess yaself because someone didn't believe in you! Everyone won't understand all your VISIONS! Everyone's calling is different”— Missy Elliott, twitter.com
“When life gives you lemons, plant the lemon seeds. Grow lemon trees. Pick the lemons from the trees. Now you have more lemons. Accumulate those useless lemons. More. More lemons. Accumulate all those useless lemons just to spite life for giving them to you in the first place.”— Jonny Sun, twitter.com
“'Don't be afraid to fail' — people allowed to recover from failure and not have it be used against them to withhold any future they may have.”— Jonny Sun, twitter.com
“I can guarantee you that everyone you look up to has faced failure and rejection thousands more times in their life than any sort of success. It's part of the path of making the thing. Maybe the most important. Your only job is to keep going.”— Jonny Sun, twitter.com
“Giving up on your goal because of one setback is like slashing your other three tires because you got a flat.”— Mel Robbins, twitter.com