Sara Blakely Quotes

Don't permit fear of failure to prevent effort.

Don't be afraid to fail. For the love of God, don't be afraid to fail, because you're going to fail. So try to fail as hard as you can is what I would say, because you're always going to get up and you're going to learn something from it.

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

If you're afraid to fail, you'll never succeed.

Better to try and fail than not to try at all

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.

The greatest failure is the failure to try.

Failure I can live with. Not trying is what I can't handle!

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

I have always believed that one should not be scared of losing, I think that really is the key.

I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down.

As I said there is nothing wrong with failing. Pick yourself up and try it again. You never are going to know how good you really are until you go out and face failure.

When I have tried and failed, I shall have failed.

To achieve you most be prepared to try; and be prepared to fail if you try.

Failing passionately is a success in its own right.

You can see that all these people who did really great things failed six times or didn't get going until they were much older. I think that's much more instructive and educational.

I grew and learned, journeyed and understood, that someone who is afraid of failing won't get anywhere, and someone who dares to do it runs the risk of failure if they don't learn, correct their mistakes, and get back up.

You should try and fail and not be afraid. Get up again.

I think the big thing is don't be afraid to fail.

I'm not afraid of failure.

Bottom line is don't ever be afraid to fail.

If I had to pick one quality that best predicts success (other than wanting to be successful) it would be the willingness to risk embarrassment.

Courage allows the successful woman to fail - and to learn powerful lessons from the failure - so that in the end, she didn't fail at all.

Failure is not having the courage to try, nothing more and nothing less.

It's probably not going to lead to anything. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't try. If everyone who thought they might fail didn't even try, where would we be today?