A man who fails well is greater than one who succeeds badly.
— Thomas Merton

Failure is an opportunity to rise higher than before.
— Edwin Dearborn

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did–which was to hide.
— James Baldwin

Failures are the stairs we climb to reach success.
— Roy Bennett

Success and failure are two edges of the same blade, two sides of the same coin. To fear one is to forever deny the possibility of the other.
— Michelle Sagara West

The pain of failure had led me to understand that technical excellence was a moral requirement.
— Paul Kalanithi

There is nothing that teaches you more than regrouping after failure and moving on. Yet most people are stricken with fear. They fear failure so much that they fail.
— Charles Bukowski

Ideas do not have to be correct in order to be good; it’s only necessary that, if they do fail, they do so in an interesting way.
— Robert Rosen

Human beings are the only creatures who are allowed to fail. If an ant fails, it’s dead. But we’re allowed to learn from our mistakes and from our failures. And that’s how I learn, by falling flat on my face and picking myself up and starting all over again.
— Madeleine L’Engle

So, I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.
— Charles Dickens