Don Miguel Ruiz Quotes

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.

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.

There can be no freedom without freedom to fail.

The willingness to fail gives us the freedom to succeed.

Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know. I truly believe what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Even if you fail, learning and moving on is sometimes the best thing.

Maybe you will be afraid and maybe you will fail, but the courage to take risks in any part of your life is, I feel, a very worthwhile way to live.

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

The antidote for fear of failure is not success but small doses of failure.

The greatest mistake a person can make is to be afraid of making one.

I had someone very close to me say to me that hopefully I’ll have many more ups and downs, not in just my career but in life. If you don’t have that, you’re not taking enough risks.

After all, this is how you learned how to walk. You didn't just jump up from your crib one day and waltz gracefully across the room. You stumbled and fell on your face and got up and tried again. At what age are you suddenly expected to know everything and never make any more mistakes? If you can love and respect yourself in failure, worlds of adventure and new experiences will open up before you, and your fears will vanish.

A blanket attempt to avoid mistakes is the biggest mistake of all.

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

Besides, life isn't meant to be safe. It's only in our mistakes, our errors, and our faults that we grow and truly live.

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.

My willingness to fail gives me the ability to succeed.

There is nothing that teaches you more than regrouping after failure and moving on. Yet most people are stricken with fear. They fear failure so much that they fail. They are too conditioned, too used to being told what to do. It begins with the family, runs through school and goes into the business world.

We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

You need the willingness to fail all the time.

You shouldn't be afraid of failure - when something fails, you think, 'What did I learn from that experience? I can do better next time.' Then kill that project and move on to the next. Don't get disappointed.

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

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

Not being afraid to be wrong - I had to learn how to do that.

To a certain extent, I enjoy failure. It's part of the game. There's always room to grow; there's room to improve.

I'm OK with failing. You've got to fail in life in order to get better. I'm going to be fine.