shī​bài​shì​chéng​gōng​zhī​mǔ

failure is the mother of success

  1. to fail
    to be defeated in a competition or battle; to fail in an attempt, task, or experiment
  2. to be
    to be; to correspond to; connects a subject to its identification, characterization, or identity
  3. to succeed
    to achieve an expected or desired result; to accomplish
  4. zhī particle
    [possessive]
    Connects a describing word or phrase to the noun it describes, similar to de but used in formal or literary writing.
  5. noun
    source
    (bound form) source; origin; something that yields or produces other things