“It does not matter how frequently something succeeds if failure is too costly to bear.”

“Failure is a frequent stop on the road to success.”

“Don't be afraid of failure. This is the way to succeed.”

“If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.”

“If you want to succeed, double your failure rate.”

“Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.”

“Failure is just another way to learn how to do something right.”

“The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned.”

“If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.”

“…we like somebody who succeeds with such bad conscience, and who seems to wish that he had the nerve to be a failure or, better still, something to which the terms success and failure don’t apply—as when Mallory said, about Everest: “Success is meaningless here.””