Denzel Washington Quotes

People ask me, "How do I succeed?" Whatever it is they do, I say, "Go and find 20 ways of messing it up. By 21, you'll be getting there." Life is an adventure, go back with cuts, scars and bruises.

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

Fall forward. Here's what I mean: Reggie Jackson struck out 2,600 times in his career - the most in the history of baseball. But you don't hear about the strikeouts. People remember the home runs. Fall forward. Thomas Edison conducted 1,000 failed experiments. Did you know that? I didn't either - because number 1,001 was the light bulb. Fall forward. Every failed experiment is one step closer to success.

If failure is not an option, neither is success. Innovation is just repeated failure till you come up with something that works.

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

If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.

I have always said that you have to fail. If you do not fail, it means you have never taken enough risks.

Failure is success training.

I enjoy the fun of failure. It's fun to fail, I kept repeating. It's part of being ambitious; it's part of being creative. If something is worth doing, it's worth doing badly

Failure is a stepping stone to success.

Embrace failure. Never never quit. Get very comfortable with that uneasy feeling of going against the grain and trying something new. It will constantly take you places you never thought you could go. This has been my mantra for years. I always remember I won't do things right on the first try. So failure is mandatory for success!

Every great cause is born from repeated failures and from imperfect achievements.

Mistakes come from doing, but so does success.

There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure-all your life.

Failure is success in progress

Failure is part of the process of success.

If everything you try works, you aren't trying hard enough.

You can't be afraid to fail. It's the only way you succeed - you're not gonna succeed all the time, and I know that.

Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.

We need some great failures. Especially we ever-successful Americans - conscious, intelligent, illuminating failures.

To be successful at anything, you need the right to fail, not just occasionally.

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

Failing passionately is a success in its own right.

You can't have a hit every time. The main thing is to keep on working and not be afraid to take risks. It's better to do something that's not perfect and successful every time. It's important to be fearless and move forward, to learn from what went wrong.

The only way you'll find out something is to fail because you only need one success to be successful.