Jessica Chastain Quotes

I find quite as much material for a lecture in those points wherein I have failed, as in those wherein I have been moderately successful.

I think it's important to take chances.

We need to risk, we need to dare to risk and fail greatly because that's the only way we grow.

It's not about the failure, it's about learning from the failures. Failure itself cannot be celebrated.

Run toward the hardest problems. This approach has helped me to learn a tremendous amount from both success and failure.

Failure is a learning experience, and the guy who has never failed has never done anything.

You can't be afraid to fail because that's when you learn.

You cannot succeed if at some point you haven't failed.

What people call success is only preparation for the next failure.

Take risks. Fail. Pick yourself back up again. And always, always remember this: there is no adversity capable of stopping you once the choice to persevere is made.

People learn from failure or from lack of success.

If your life is free of failures, you're not taking enough risks.

Recognize that there will be failures, and acknowledge that there will be obstacles. But you will learn from your mistakes and the mistakes of others, for there is very little learning in success.

Though fairy tales end after ten pages, our lives do not. We are multi-volume sets. In our lives, even though one episode amounts to a crash and burn, there is always another episode awaiting us and then another. There are always more opportunities to get it right, to fashion our lives in the ways we deserve to have them. Don't waste your time hating a failure. Failure is a greater teacher than success.

If you can't fail then how can you possible develop as a communicator or as a creator of anything? We are locked into a deeply unhealthy notion that somehow you've got to succeed all the time. An appalling notion. Any painter or writer will tell you that that is no way to proceed. One of the things that will kill off a decent actor, especially a young actor early on and they will never recover from it, is too much success. It's disastrous. You stop being criticized, therefore you stop challenging yourself. You then can't afford to fail because there's too far to fall.

Comfort kills! If your goal in life is to be comfortable, I guarantee two things. First, you will never be rich. Second, you will never be happy. Happiness doesn't come from living a lukewarm life, always wondering what could have been. Happiness comes as a result of being in our natural state of growth and living up to our fullest potential.

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

Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow.

Do something youre not ready to do. In the worst case, youll learn your limitations.

When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.

If you don't try things and take risks, you don't really grow and figure out what you want.

The only mistake is not to risk making one.

As a society, we've become terrified of failure, but you can't grow without risking it.

If you haven't failed, you haven't tried very hard.

The more successful you are, the more mistakes you will make. People who don't do anything, don't make mistakes.