Randy Pausch Quotes

Well, I was lucky enough to be involved in about 19 failures at an early age, so I'm realistic about the success I'm having and how quickly it can go away. What's important is to be smart about it.

I employ case studies of failure into my courses, emphasizing that they teach us much more than studies of success. It is not that success stories cannot serve as models of good design or as exemplars of creative engineering. They can do that, but they cannot teach us how close to failure they are.

Enjoy failure and learn from it. You can never learn from success.

Defeat has its lessons as well as victory.

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes.

We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures.

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

I wouldn't be where I am today without my mistakes. Particularly my mistakes. Exclusively my mistakes.

The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Too often we just look at these glistening successes. Behind them in many, many cases is failure along the way, and that doesn't get put into the Wikipedia story or the bio. Yet those failures teach you every bit as much as the successes.

Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success, and in some ways it's better to have failure at the beginning of your career, or your life.

You can't please everyone, but I've always felt you cannot ultimately lose if you give everything you try 110%. You'll always learn something useful, even from a failure, that can be applied to the next challenge or project.

His failures are as valuable as his successes: by misjudging one thing he conforms something else, even if at the time he does not know what that something else is.

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

You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success - on the far side of failure.

Treat failure as a lesson on how not to approach achieving a goal, and then use that learning to improve your chances of success when you try again. Failure is only the end if you decide to stop.

There is a huge difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn't work. Failure is throwing in the towel and giving up. True success comes from failing repeatedly and as quickly as possible, before your cash or your willpower runs out.

For me, failure is not a bad thing because it teaches you how to succeed.

Success is a lousy teacher, but failure is a friend, philosopher, and guide.

You learn a lot more from stories about getting rejected than stories about becoming happy.

I say to people all the time, it is OK to fail. Some of the greatest successes in the history of America started out as failures.

You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.

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