Leonard Mlodinow Quotes

Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.

It's not OK to fail. It's that things can fail and absolutely will go wrong - just keep trying, keep trying, keep trying.

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal.

We will all fail in life, but nobody has to be a failure. Failing at a thing doesn't make you a failure. You are only a failure when you quit trying.

Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.

The most important lesson to remember is that failure is inevitable, but so is success, so rebound.

I might look successful but I've made many mistakes. People take their failures too seriously. You have to be positive and believe you will find success next time.

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

If something's important enough, you should try. Even if you - the probable outcome is failure.

You are going to fail, and failing, for me, is as joyful as succeeding. Failing means that there is something to learn, and we can improve and do it better next time.

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.

It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember.

I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

With failure, you just try again.

All of us, in a sense, struggle continuously all the time, because we never get what we want. The important thing which I've really learned is how do you not give up, because you never succeed in the first attempt.

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

I've had a lot of success; I've had failures, so I learn from the failure.

To be ready to fail is to be prepared for success.

Just because you lost your last game doesn't mean you change anything.