Will Self Quotes

We need some great failures. Especially we ever-successful Americans - conscious, intelligent, illuminating failures.

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

Failing passionately is a success in its own right.

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.

Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.

I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

Don't be frightened of failure. It makes you stronger if you learn from your mistakes.

To be ready to fail is to be prepared for success.

As I said there is nothing wrong with failing. Pick yourself up and try it again. You never are going to know how good you really are until you go out and face failure.

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

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

Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.

I've bombed on stage millions and millions of times. And that's part of it. You go up with a half-baked idea, and you bomb, and so what? Nothing bad happens if you bomb.

I have always said that you have to fail. If you do not fail, it means you have never taken enough risks.

Don't let people make you afraid of taking chances in life. And if you fail, it's no big deal. Get back up and fight through it and be successful again. If you did it once, you can do it again.

I've had more failures than I've had success, but I'm not afraid to fail.

Failure's a marker of success in its own right because you went out and tried something... If you really don't want to fail, go find a comfortable chair and stay there. Just don't go out and do anything.

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

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.

Nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks. Fall forward. Every failed experiment is one step closer to success.

What's the worst that can happen? If it doesn't do well I can put on my big girl panties, deal with it and move on.

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

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.

How important is failure - yes, failure - to the health of a thriving, innovative business? So important that Ratan Tata, chairman of India's largest corporation, gives an annual award to the employee who comes up with the best idea that failed.

I didn't fear failure. I expected failure.