Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes

In order to succeed spectacularly you have to be willing to fail spectacularly.

Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success.

It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.

Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.

In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail.

Failure's a marker of success in its own right because you went out and tried something... If you really don't want to fail, go find a comfortable chair and stay there. Just don't go out and do anything.

The most successful people in American life are those that have had horrific failures and have come back, done it again and again until they got it right, whether it's Steve Jobs or Bill Gates or Warren Buffet.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little coarse and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice? Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.

You cannot achieve success without the risk of failure. And I learned a long time ago, you cannot achieve success, if you fear failure. If you're not afraid to fail, man, you have a chance to succeed. But you're never gonna get there unless you risk it, all the way. I'll risk failure. Sometimes, half the fun is failing. Learning from your mistakes, waking up the next morning, and saying 'Okay. Watch out. Here I come again. A little bit smarter, licking my wounds, and really not looking forward to getting my ass kicked the way I just did yesterday.' So now, I'm just a little more dangerous.

You can only really learn from failure ... To win, you need to fail, and fail hard.

You can't win 'til you're not afraid to lose

Successful people take big risks knowing that they might fall hard. But, they might succeed more than they ever dreamed, too.

Succes is really nothing more than the record of failure. To be successful means you must be willing to fail more than anyone else.

Successful people just don't let failure define them or keep them from doing what they want to do. For example, I'd have people come up to me after my shows, and they'd say they want to do stand-up but are scared they're going to fail. I'd tell them, "You are going to fail, and anyone who is success has powered through many, many failures."

Failure is an option, fear is not.

It doesn't matter how many times you fail. It doesn't matter how many times you almost get it right. No-one is going to know or care about your failures, and neither should you. All you have to do is learn from them and those around you. All that matters in business is that you get it right once. Then everyone can tell you how lucky you are.

You gotta be willing to fail...if you're afraid of failing, you won't get very far.

I think that the only way that you're going to succeed anywhere is to fail, as crazy as that sounds. It's the only way. You have to fail your way up.

In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail.

Better to dare mighty things and fail than to live in a grey twilight where there is neither victory nor defeat.

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win.

In order to achieve anything you must be brave enough to fail.

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

I've never been afraid to fail.