Failure is integral to your Success

Failure plays an integral role in the journey towards success by acting as a transformative teacher and a catalyst for growth. Failure offers invaluable lessons, insight and knowledge to entrepreneurs, it shapes our future decisions, guides in refining our strategies, allowing us to approach challenges with a new perspective and energy.

As Thomas Edison asserted, "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work". Oprah Winfrey remarked, "Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness". Embracing failure as part of the journey, J.K. Rowling noted, "It is impossible to live without failing at something unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default".

Ultimately, failure cultivates resilience, creativity, and the courage to persevere, making it an integral component in the pursuit of success. So the next time you show your idea to someone and they say but what if you fail!, reply, I plan to fail over and over again, until I succeed.

Here’s some killer quotes to get you even more motivated!

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts." - Winston Churchill

"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently." - Henry Ford

"The only real failure is the failure to try, and the measure of success is how we cope with disappointment. - Deborah Moggach

"I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying." - Michael Jordan

"Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes it's built on catastrophe." - Sumner Redstone

"Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end." - Denis Waitley

"There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure." - Paulo Coelho

Failure is a part of the process. You just learn to pick yourself back up.” - Michelle Obama

Don't fear failure — not failure, but low aim is the crime. In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail. - Bruce Lee

"Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again. Most of us adults are so afraid, so cautious, so 'safe,' and therefore so shrinking and rigid and afraid that it is why so many humans fail. Most middle-aged adults have resigned themselves to failure."

Malcolm X