Samuel Smiles Quotes

To do something that you feel in your heart that's great, you need to make a lot of mistakes. Anything that's successful is a series of mistakes.

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.

It takes 10 million failures to find the right stuff.

Creative experimentation propels our culture forward. That our stories of innovation tend to glorify the breakthroughs and edit out all the experimental mistakes doesn't mean that mistakes play a trivial role. As any artist or scientist knows, without some protected, even sacred space for mistakes, innovation would cease.

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

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

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

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.

If you don't make mistakes, you aren't really trying.

Mistakes are the only universal form of originality.

You can discover great things through 'mistakes.'

Expect to make some mistakes when you try new and different approaches. Sometimes colossal failures lead to spectacular successes.

No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes.

Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

You make a ton of progress by making a ton of mistakes.

Too often we just look at these glistening successes. Behind them in many, many cases is failure along the way, and that doesn't get put into the Wikipedia story or the bio. Yet those failures teach you every bit as much as the successes.

To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is swear off having ideas.

Science is so incremental and so full of setbacks and small steps forward. In order to really thrive in this business, you have to be able to glean as much joy from the failure days and from the small increments as you do from the breakthroughs.

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

I love my mistakes. That's how you learn! You have to keep making mistakes. That's how you expand!

'Fail hard, fail fast, fail often. It's the key to success.' This one I learned from experience!

The team that makes the most mistakes usually wins, because doers make mistakes

We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

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

IF you are not making mistakes, then you are not doing anything.