However things might seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure. What looks like a loss may be the very event which is subsequently responsible for helping to produce the major achievement of your life. Srully Blotnick Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement. It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroryan Best men are often moulded out of faults. In school the external nightmare is internalized for life. To be successful in our culture one must learn to dream of failure. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man, and I'll show you a failure. I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.