Nellie Bly Quotes

Great success always comes at the risk of enormous failure.

In order to succeed spectacularly you have to be willing to fail spectacularly.

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

Successful people just don't let failure define them or keep them from doing what they want to do. For example, I'd have people come up to me after my shows, and they'd say they want to do stand-up but are scared they're going to fail. I'd tell them, "You are going to fail, and anyone who is success has powered through many, many failures."

In the thirty years of my career I learned everything about success, but I did not learn, really, about failure. In Bar Rescue I got exposed to failure at a very deep level.

What a shame to be so afraid of failure that you stop living. My wife has a great one-liner about failure: "Never consider yourself a failure-you can always serve as a bad example." She is right. Failure can be a better teacher than success.

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker

One who fears failure limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again.

But what if I fail? You will. A better question might be, ‘after I fail, what then?’ If you’ve chosen well, after you fail you will be one step closer to succeeding, you will be wiser and stronger and you almost certainly will be more respected by all of those that are afraid to try.

Failure is no more fatal than success is permanent.

Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success. I've met people who don't want to try for fear of failing.

I think that the only way that you're going to succeed anywhere is to fail, as crazy as that sounds. It's the only way. You have to fail your way up.

There's no disgrace in failing, lad, Though friends and foes deride; In fact, a failure's not so bad As never having tried.

Do not simplify. Do not worry about failure. Failure is a badge of honour. It means you risked failure.

If at first you don't succeed - give it up. It isn't worth the pain.

Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure.

Success is a poor teacher

It's failure that gives you the proper perspective on success.

I think you need the failures to get the success. You learn more from that.

There's a buzz to failing and not dying.

If you are not successful, that means you're not making enough mistakes.

Leaders can let you fail and yet not let you be a failure.

I think sometimes, when you're on top and all you do is win, win, win, win, win, you get lazy and lose focus. When you lose it opens your eyes and you get serious. There is always a time when it is good to lose, at the right time for you.

Often, you'll fail. But, as my mother also taught me, failure isn't the opposite of success - it's a stepping stone to success.