Don't be afraid to fail. Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It's OK to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing.
H. Stanley Judd

Even though some of the films I've made haven't been particularly commercial, I don't find them failures.
Don Johnson

Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is.
Bob Feller

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
John Dewey

Failures are expected by losers, ignored by winners.
Joe Gibbs

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
C. S. Lewis

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.
Ross Perot

Failures of perspective in decision-making can be due to aspects of the social utility paradox, but more often result from simple mistakes caused by inadequate thought.
Herman Kahn

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton

First of all we have to recognize that despite all the problems - and in some cases failures - that this regime has been much more successful, much more resilient, than people had anticipated.
Mitchell Reiss

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.
Mary A. Ward

For four years, I listened to stories of intelligence failures, and it wasn't due to incompetence of anyone in the system, but that the system is so arcane.
Charles F. Bass

He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.
Richard Whately

His failures are as valuable as his successes: by misjudging one thing he conforms something else, even if at the time he does not know what that something else is.
Bridget Riley

I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.
Earl Warren

I don't believe in astrology. The only stars I can blame for my failures are those that walk about the stage.
Noel Coward

I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failures at something else.
Cormac McCarthy

I just think that it's maybe fashionable today to try to take individual actions and individual failures and take the broadest possible brush and try to paint a company.
Lee Scott

I mean, the truth of the matter is, I like the failures as much as I like the successes, it's only the world that doesn't like the failures.
Sydney Pollack

I think many experiences are bound to be failures, and sometimes I regret them before they even happen.
Keren Ann