Warren Bennis Quotes

To be developed as a leader, failure must be allowed. Failure only helps us improve.

After all, this is how you learned how to walk. You didn't just jump up from your crib one day and waltz gracefully across the room. You stumbled and fell on your face and got up and tried again. At what age are you suddenly expected to know everything and never make any more mistakes? If you can love and respect yourself in failure, worlds of adventure and new experiences will open up before you, and your fears will vanish.

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.

Perfectionist is sometimes the wrong word... It means like you're never satisfied, or you're upset by every single failure - any type of failure. And so for me, I don't look at failure as necessarily a bad thing as long as I'm able to learn from it and take something from it, so that next time I'm in that situation I know how to succeed.

To improve, we must watch ourselves fail, and learn from our mistakes.

When you make a mistake, be excited! Analyze what happened, and learn from it.

We are alive and need to take risks. And if we fail, so what? Who cares? It doesn't matter. Learn and move on without judgement.

If you aren't experiencing failure, then you are making a far worse mistake: You are being driven by the desire to avoid it.

Making mistakes isn't enough to become great. You must also admit the mistake, and then learn how to turn that mistake into an advantage.

Besides, life isn't meant to be safe. It's only in our mistakes, our errors, and our faults that we grow and truly live.

I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.

We'll just have to try to make better mistakes tomorrow.

I've learned so much from my failures that I'm thinking of having some more.

For every mistake that you learn from you will save thousands of similar mistakes in the future, so if you treat mistakes as learning opportunities that yield rapid improvements you should be excited by them. But if you treat them as bad things, you will make yourself and others miserable, and you won't grow.

We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

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.

To a certain extent, I enjoy failure. It's part of the game. There's always room to grow; there's room to improve.

One of the things that defines our character is how we handle mistakes.

The antidote for fear of failure is not success but small doses of failure.

I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it

You will only fail to learn if you do not learn from failing.

The willingness to fail gives us the freedom to succeed.

Mistakes in life teach you how to succeed because you want to try again and do it better.

I try to extract something positive from every situation, even if it's just learning not to make the same mistake twice.

Successes teach you nothing. Failures teach you everything. Making mistakes is the most important thing you can do.