Henry Rollins Quotes

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

You don't learn from successes; you don't learn from awards; you don't learn from celebrity; you only learn from wounds and scars and mistakes and failures. And that's the truth.

I mean, the truth of the matter is, I like the failures as much as I like the successes, it's only the world that doesn't like the failures.

You learn more from your failures than you do from your successes.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

It's okay to fail if you learn from it.

In life, I think huge failures are extremely important.

You're never wasting your time as long as you learn from every single thing you do, whether you feel like those attempts are successful or not.

In life when you get tested, when you get rejected by everyone and when you get pushed aside, you actually get the best out of it. That has been a learning curve for me.

You get rejection throughout your life and that shapes you eventually to what you become.

We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

People learn from failure or from lack of success.

One of the most valuable lessons I learned...is that we all have to learn from our mistakes, and we learn from those mistakes a lot more than we learn from the things we succeeded in doing.

Rejection is a gift and failure is the best educator, so when someone knocks you down, get back up!

Fact: From quitting smoking to skiing, we succeed to the degree we try, fail, and learn. Studies show that people who worry about mistakes shut down, but those who are relaxed about doing badly soon learn to do well. Success is built on failure.

As athletes, we're defined by what we've accomplished. Those are what most people remember and what you get paid for. But I learned more from my failures than from all of my successes put together - failures as an athlete and as a person.

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.

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.

I've had great success and I've had catastrophic failure. It's really how you handle the rough stuff that defines you, I think.

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

You don't run from the bad things in life; learn from them, because your worst is what will lead you to your best.

Failure and things of this sort - you can take it one of two ways. You can either let that hurt you and really affect the way that you live your life in the future, or you can use that as an opportunity for growth.

There's nothing wrong with failing if you learn from it, and I've failed out here plenty.

I've permitted myself to learn and to fail with some regularity. And that is probably the one thing I was given, and that I'm still grateful for.

Never be afraid to fail. Failure is only a stepping stone to improvement. Never be overconfident because that will block your improvement.