Seth Godin Quotes

Don't 'tolerate' mistakes. Embrace them!

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

I love to talk to children about making mistakes. It's important that I tell them about how I don't get it right the first time. We live in such a perfectionist society, and they see so many finished products and polished performances.

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.

You can only go forward by making mistakes.

You need the willingness to fail all the time.

What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.

You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure.

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.

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.

Celebrating failure is key. Half of what we do fails, at least.

... I don't think anybody should avoid mistakes. If it is within their nature to make certain mistakes, I think they should make them, make the mistakes and find out what the cost of the mistake is, rather than to constantly keep avoiding it, and never really knowing exactly what the experience of it is, what the cost of it is, you know, and all the other facets of the mistake. I don't think that mistakes are that bad. I think that they should try and not do destructive things, but I don't think that a mistake is that serious a thing that one should be told what to do to avoid it.

The more failure you can accept, the greater your chance of success.

There can be no freedom without freedom to fail.

Failure concentrates the mind wonderfully. If you don't make mistakes, you're not trying hard enough.

Mistakes are life. Mistakes are not to be tolerated...they are to be encouraged. The bigger the better.

The willingness to fail gives us the freedom to succeed.

There's no problem being wrong; it's a learning opportunity.

When I was a child, my father used to encourage my brother and me to fail. At the dinner table, instead of asking about the best part of our day, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have something to tell him, he would be disappointed. When we shared whatever failure we'd endured, he'd high-five us and say, 'Way to go!' The gift my father gave us by doing this was redefining what failure truly meant.

Be willing to make bold decisions and be willing to make glorious mistakes. Learn from your mistakes, but you've got to be willing to make them first.

Mistakes are a fact of life. If you are willing to be wrong then you have earned the right to be right.

Most ideas don't work out. Almost all ideas don't work out. So it's okay if yours didn't work out.

I've made so many mistakes. But it is my feeling that you learn from failures, so I welcome them as often as I can.

One important lesson is this: It is okay to try and fail at something, but it isn't okay to not try. Parents need to encourage their kids, and it all starts in the home.

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.