Bernie Siegel Quotes

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker

One who fears failure limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again.

Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success. I've met people who don't want to try for fear of failing.

99 percent of success is built on failure.

I believe there is a right way to fail and a wrong way to fail.

Fail early, fail often, but always fail forward.

Successful people just don't let failure define them or keep them from doing what they want to do. For example, I'd have people come up to me after my shows, and they'd say they want to do stand-up but are scared they're going to fail. I'd tell them, "You are going to fail, and anyone who is success has powered through many, many failures."

Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success.

Cultivate your desire for success to be greater than the fear of failure; Failure is merely a pitstop between where you stand and success. Failure allows you to learn the fastest; Failure inspires winners and defeats losers.

When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.

I think you need the failures to get the success. You learn more from that.

Often, you'll fail. But, as my mother also taught me, failure isn't the opposite of success - it's a stepping stone to success.

Don't be too afraid of failure to learn what you need to learn.

Failure: Is it a limitation? Bad timing? It's a lot of things. It's something you can't be afraid of, because you'll stop growing. The next step beyond failure could be your biggest success in life.

Success is on the far side of failure.

I think that the only way that you're going to succeed anywhere is to fail, as crazy as that sounds. It's the only way. You have to fail your way up.

Only failure makes us experts.

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

The thing I always say to people is this: 'If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.'

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

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

In order to succeed spectacularly you have to be willing to fail spectacularly.

A failure isn't a failure if it prepares you for success tomorrow.

Failure is not to be feared. It is from failure that most growth comes.

My advice is find fuel in failure. Sometimes failure gets you closer to where you want to be.