18 Power Quotes for Understanding Why Failure Is Our Friend

Successful People Know Failure Is Their Friend

“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, 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

“The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.”

― Randy Pausch

“Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.”

― Coco Chanel

“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

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

― Ken Robinson

“If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.”

― Henry David Thoreau