In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

Bill Cosby

If you don’t fail at least 90 percent of the time, you’re not aiming high enough.

Alan Kay, the scientist who conceived the idea of laptop computer and graphical user interface currently used in computers today.

I think it’s important to have a good hard failure early in life.

Walt Disney. The man who created Mickey Mouse pursued his lifelong dream by moving to California with only a suitcase and $40.

It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.

Babe Ruth

The only thing in life achieved without effort is failure.

Author Unknown

Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What other people label or might try to call failure, I have learned is just God’s way of pointing you in a new direction.

Oprah Winfrey, a talk show host, magazine owner and a humanitarian, she also taught about the Dynamics of Leadership at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.

He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Samuel Smiles

If you want to succeed, double your failure rate.

Thomas Watson, IBM pioneer. Once a piano peddler, the asthmatic Watson turned IBM into a powerful company in the 1950s, controlling over 90% of all information processing machine of the time.

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.

Thomas Edison