John Mortimer Quotes

I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure.

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.

It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

You are going to fail, and failing, for me, is as joyful as succeeding. Failing means that there is something to learn, and we can improve and do it better next time.

The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.

Every failure is a step to success.

I grew and learned, journeyed and understood, that someone who is afraid of failing won't get anywhere, and someone who dares to do it runs the risk of failure if they don't learn, correct their mistakes, and get back up.

I think the big thing is don't be afraid to fail.

Bottom line is don't ever be afraid to fail.

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

It took mad failures for me to start to win.

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

You cannot be successful without failure.

You can only really learn from failure ... To win, you need to fail, and fail hard.

One way to learn to do something right is to do something wrong. Failure must teach us, or surely success will not reward us.

Failure is just another way to learn how to do something right.

Every time you fail, you learn more.

I make plenty of mistakes and I'll make plenty more mistakes, too. That's part of the game. You've just got to make sure that the right things overcome the wrong ones.

You miss a lot of opportunities by making mistakes, but that's part of it: knowing that you're not shut out forever, and that there's a goal you still can reach.

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Don't be afraid to fail. For the love of God, don't be afraid to fail, because you're going to fail. So try to fail as hard as you can is what I would say, because you're always going to get up and you're going to learn something from it.

I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.

There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.

I believe there's only one regulation in life that works: failure.

I've always had to have some kind of failure before I was successful.