Originally Posted by: Douglas ShowalterA friend once told me, which was a quote taken from a fortune cookie of all places;

Failure is the Mother of Success

Two I have and one is a fortune cookie and the other is something I made up for myself a long time ago.

"If you are being kicked from behind, that means you are ahead."
- Fortune Cookie

"If in any endeavor you fail nine times out of ten, you've become a raging success."
- Me (I do note that Edison said pretty much the same thing and the concept is not revolutionary but it worked for me)