Quotes on Failure

If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.

I failed the LSAT. Basically, if I had not failed, I'd have been a lawyer and there would be no Spanx. I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course. My attitude to failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. It is liberating.

People are afraid of failure - they don't like to work so hard and have people keep saying, 'No.' I think that's what people fear most.

So many amongst us live in the past rather than loving the present and building a brilliant future. Some people stay stuck for years over something they did or a failure they've experienced. Sad. A life is a terrible thing to waste.

The thing I always say to people is this: 'If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.'

Once you can accept failure, you can have fun and success.

A passionate belief in your business and personal objectives can make all the difference between success and failure. If you aren't proud of what you're doing, why should anybody else be?

For me, utter failure is to make a film that people pay their money to go see and they don't like.

When you believe in your dream and your vision, then it begins to attract its own resources. No one was born to be a failure.

Increasing extremism - across Africa and the world - must be understood in the context of the failure of our leaders properly to manage diversity within their borders.

Failure has been my best friend as a writer. It tests you, to see if you have what it takes to see it through.

If you can't admit a failure, you're not an entrepreneur. You are not a good business person. There's nothing brilliant about what you are doing.

I was taught you don't tell your secrets to strangers - certainly not secrets that expose error, weakness, failure. My generation, like its predecessors, was taught that since our achievements received little notice or credit from white America, we were not to discuss our faults, lapses, or uncertainties in public.

There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.

Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Those in leadership positions who fail to grasp or use the power of stories risk failure for their companies and for themselves.

Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who've never done anything because if you haven't been successful, then you don't know how it feels to lose it all. You don't have that fear. So why do you think people get stuck in those boxes? It's that fear of going back down.

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.

Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Do one thing every day that scares you.

To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.