One of my favorite bloggers Michael Hyatt on Turning Failure to your Advantage.

Anytime we attempt to do anything bold and significant we risk failure. Michael highlights five keys to ensure "failure" becomes a learning experience that launches us forward rather than an experience that debilitates us:

1. Acknowledge the failure.
2. Take full responsibility. 
   
3. Mourn the failure.
4. Learn from the experience.
5. Change your behavior.

Pay Michael a visit to read more.

In a related post, Curt Rosengren writes that "you can't fail in an experiment".

"That's one of my big bugaboos, trying to be too good at things from the onset. I'm getting better with time, but it's good to have things like this to remind me that with anything new, my first task is to learn, and only then can I work on perfecting."

“Recovering from failure is often easier than building from success.”
- Michael D. Eisner

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
-Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)