Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
Charles Kettering

It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.
Charles Kettering

We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.
Charles Kettering

The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.
Charles Kettering

We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.
Charles Kettering

It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.
Charles Kettering

The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
Charles Kettering

In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.
Anthony J. D'Angelo

Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
Samuel Beckett

Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the dead.
Omar N. Bradley

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

Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
Samuel Beckett

Beyond this day, no thinking person could fail to see what would happen.
Oskar Schindler

I think I fail a bit less than everyone else.
Jack Nicklaus

More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.
Billy Sunday

If you cry 'forward', you must without fail make plain in what direction to go.
Anton Chekhov

In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.
Charles Babbage

We fail to see that we can control our destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become whatever we long to be.
Orison Swett Marden

No matter how hard you try to teach your cat general relativity, you're going to fail.
Brian Greene

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.
Edwin Land