Is it OK to fail? Most people believe that failure is something to be embarrassed about, or to sweep under the rug. But is there something about owning our failures that gives us the keys to succeed? Included below are 15 quotes from some of history’s greatest known thinkers and leaders on why failure doesn’t have to be as devastating as we think. Featuring quotes from Thomas Edison, Zig Ziglar, Randy Pausch, Maya Angelou, Winston Churchill, and more.

1. FAIL HARD
15 QUOTES ON FAILING TO SUCCEED

2. I’ve just found 10,000 ways
that won't work.”
― Thomas A. Edison
“I have not failed.

3. “Failure is the condiment that
gives success its flavor.”
― Truman Capote

4. “Have no fear of perfection
you’ll never reach it.”
― Salvador Dalí

5. “It may be necessary to encounter the defeats,
so you can know who you are,
what you can rise from,
how you can still come out of it.”
― Maya Angelou

6. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal:
it is the courage to continue that counts.”
― Winston Churchill

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8. “Never confuse a single defeat
with a final defeat.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

9. “If you fell down yesterday,
stand up today.”
― H.G. Wells

10. “If you're not prepared to be wrong, you’ll
never come up with anything original.”
― Ken Robinson

11. “All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he
knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil.
The only crime is pride.”
― Sophocles

12. “Try again.
Fail again.
Fail better.”
― Samuel Beckett

13. “The only real mistake is the one
from which we learn nothing.”
― Henry Ford

14. “The person who failed often knows how to
avoid future failures.
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The person who knows only success can be
more oblivious to all the pitfalls.”
― Randy Pausch

15. “You build
on failure.
You use it as
a stepping
stone.”
— Johnny Cash

16. “Make failure
your teacher,
not your
undertaker.”
― Zig Ziglar

17. “Failure is always an option”
― Adam Savage

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