Steve-O Quotes

It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one's mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to the next.

You know, be able to do something great in your life, you're gonna have to realize your failures. You're gonna have to embrace them and figure out how to overcome it.

Do not take yourself too seriously. You have to learn not to be dismayed at making mistakes. No human being can avoid failures.

I'm going to have setbacks and failures; I'm not going to see change right away all of the time or most of the time. But everybody I've ever respected has failed at one thing or another. I've definitely fallen on my face. But I've also had a comparatively easy life.

I make mistakes. I say stupid things. I do idiotic things. And, quite frankly, I'm proud of them. Why not make mistakes?

I'm grateful for every stupid mistake and dumb joke I tried to make.

Trying to forget or hide your mistakes is a huge error. Rather, hold them near and dear to your heart. Wear them proudly.

I know that when you are experiencing failure, it's pretty damn painful. It is easy in retrospect to wax poetic about it. But in the moment, you don't think you will survive, let alone have the time to reflect on how valuable those lessons will be for you in the future.

Success is a lousy teacher, but failure is a friend, philosopher, and guide.

Don't be afraid to make mistakes and be able to laugh at yourself.

When you fail by your own standards, it's a form of success.

I've made so many mistakes. But it is my feeling that you learn from failures, so I welcome them as often as I can.

I think I fail a bit less than everyone else.

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.

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.

Sometimes women get devastated by failing. Athletes don't; they just know that means they've got to practise harder, and they've got to do something else differently.

But I look at failure as education. In that respect, I am so well-educated.

Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.

No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

I am far more comfortable with failure than I ever will be with success.

It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

One of my rules is: Never listen to your old stuff.

Failure and things of this sort - you can take it one of two ways. You can either let that hurt you and really affect the way that you live your life in the future, or you can use that as an opportunity for growth.

Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.

Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.