My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail.

He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.

Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.

Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.

Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.

No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.

The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.