Tom Robbins Quotes

The antidote for fear of failure is not success but small doses of failure.

After all, this is how you learned how to walk. You didn't just jump up from your crib one day and waltz gracefully across the room. You stumbled and fell on your face and got up and tried again. At what age are you suddenly expected to know everything and never make any more mistakes? If you can love and respect yourself in failure, worlds of adventure and new experiences will open up before you, and your fears will vanish.

What is there to be afraid of? The worst thing that can happen is you fail. So what? I failed at a lot of things. My first record was horrible.

There can be no freedom without freedom to fail.

We are alive and need to take risks. And if we fail, so what? Who cares? It doesn't matter. Learn and move on without judgement.

If you aren't experiencing failure, then you are making a far worse mistake: You are being driven by the desire to avoid it.

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

I don't live my life based on fear of failure. I live my life with an understanding of failure and I'm embracing it, because every time I fail, I learn something new.

The more failure you can accept, the greater your chance of success.

To be developed as a leader, failure must be allowed. Failure only helps us improve.

You can't fly unless you let yourself fall

The willingness to fail gives us the freedom to succeed.

The more you fail in private, the less you will fail in public.

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

Failure is a prerequisite for great success. If you want to succeed faster, double your rate of failure.

Unless you're willing to fail miserably in the pursuit of your dreams, you'll never make it.

Don't permit fear of failure to prevent effort. We are all imperfect and will fail on occasions, but fear of failure is the greatest failure of all.

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

I think saying you're bad at something is rather wonderful because then it doesn't matter anymore.

You shouldn't be afraid of failure - when something fails, you think, 'What did I learn from that experience? I can do better next time.' Then kill that project and move on to the next. Don't get disappointed.

Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.

One thing about pushing yourself outside your comfort zone is that you're going to make mistakes, and you're going to fall flat on your face sometimes.

I'm not afraid to make mistakes.

Perfectionist is sometimes the wrong word... It means like you're never satisfied, or you're upset by every single failure - any type of failure. And so for me, I don't look at failure as necessarily a bad thing as long as I'm able to learn from it and take something from it, so that next time I'm in that situation I know how to succeed.

The greatest tip ever told to me is 'Don't be afraid to make mistakes.'