Eric Hoffer Quotes

The willingness to fail gives us the freedom to succeed.

Failure is a prerequisite for great success. If you want to succeed faster, double your rate of failure.

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

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.

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

My willingness to fail gives me the ability to succeed.

Unless you're willing to fail miserably in the pursuit of your dreams, you'll never make it.

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

There's a buzz to failing and not dying.

You gotta be willing to fail...if you're afraid of failing, you won't get very far.

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.

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.

By the time they get to 6th grade honor roll students won't risk making a mistake, and sometimes to be successful, you have to risk making mistakes.

You cannot succeed if at some point you haven't failed.

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

You need to have the courage to fail.

If you want to succeed, double your failure rate.

Fail early, fail often, but always fail forward.

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

The more you fail in private, the less you will fail in public.

A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free.

When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.

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

If I'm not free to fail, I'm not free to take risks and everything in life that's worth doing involves a willingness to take a risk.

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