Holly Near Quotes

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Even when you have doubts, take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure - they can be turned into wisdom.

As soon as you become afraid to make a fool of yourself, you're in trouble. I decided I may as well just see if I can live with myself making millions of mistakes and learn something from it.

I'd like to just be a little bit more open to making mistakes and not worrying about it so much.

Risks, I like to say, always pay off. You learn what to do, or what not to do.

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

You can't go into new life experiences without the understanding that yeah, you may fail, but knowing you might fail can't stop you from trying.

I love finding things that scare me and doing them. That's how you grow.

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.

I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.

Challenge yourself, jump off the deep end and learn to swim.

Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

Everybody else is afraid to fail. I do not really care because when I fail, I try something new.

I have found that I always learn more from my mistakes than from my successes. If you aren't making some mistakes, you aren't taking enough chances.

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

There were times when I blundered and got the dreaded look from the lads. But that was a good sign. It showed I'd attempted something I'd not tried before.

I want to try new things and put myself out there and take some risks.

When we make mistakes, say, I'm blessed that I have an opportunity to learn from this.

I don't know if I'm a daredevil, exactly, but I do enjoy a good challenge. It's the only way you grow.

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

I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure, you learned, as I did in art school, to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow off your head.

Too many people don't do things for fear of falling. You'll never get good unless you fall. Experiences and new accomplishments are feelings we should never lose.

I'd rather attempt something I'm not sure I can do.

Do one thing every day that scares you.