The reports on innovation - social, business, policy, etc. -often focus on the success stories but on the way to success, there is always failure.  As I reflected on the closure of the Manifestation Journal today, I decided to see what others have said about failure and success.  Here are 10 useful (to me at least) quotes:

1)  Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.  Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)

2)  Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.    John Keats (1795 - 1821)

3)  If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.    Mary Pickford (1893 - 1979)

4) A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), The Gay Science, section 41

5) You always pass failure on the way to success.  Mickey Rooney (1920 - )

6)  Charles Westrill was a young, green, uninformed magazine writer when he invited T. J. Watson to a brown bag lunch—not knowing Watson was the president of IBM. Surprisingly, Watson accepted, but suggested dining at IBM headquarters. Once Charles got over the shock of his lunch date's prominence, Watson gave him some life-changing advice.

"Would you like the formula for success?" Watson asked. "Double your rate of failure." The common mistake, Watson said, is to make failure the enemy of success. Failure may be harsh, but it is the best teacher.

This is Howard Butt, Jr., of Laity Lodge. After lunch, Charles studied all his rejected manuscripts to turn each failure into a step toward success. Now there's a formula for the high calling of our daily work.

From The Incentive of Failure by Charles Westrill, published in How to Live with Life, a Reader's Digest book published in 1965.

7)  A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. David Brinkley

8)  Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.  George Edward Woodberry

9)  Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.

J. Paul Getty

10)  I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.  Michael Jordan