Tom Robbins Quotes

There's always failure. And there's always disappointment. And there's always loss. But the secret is learning from the loss, and realizing that none of those holes are vacuums.

No one plays this or any game perfectly. It's the guy who recovers from his mistakes who wins.

Failure is my specialty.

That this awareness of my own fallibility will prevent me from making many mistakes doesn't alter the fact that I'm bound to make a great many mistakes anyway. But if we fall, we get up again!

"Every leader makes mistakes, every leader stumbles and falls. The question with a senior level leader is, does she learn from her mistakes, regroup, and then get going again with renewed speed, conviction and confidence?"

In every perceived failure or setback is the seed of success.

Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

Any experience can be transformed into something of value.

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

We all fail - I have failed so many times, but it never discourages me. I just pick up and go.

Mistakes are part of the game. It's how well you recover from them, that's the mark of a great player.

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

I've had disappointments and heartbreaks and setbacks and roles I didn't get, but something always came along that either made me better or was an even better role.

You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.

In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.

Success is ... what we can make of the mess we have made of things.

It's always frustrating when you drop the ball. But you've got to go back out there, and you've got to put that play in the back of your head and keep on going.

All my challenges have become opportunities.

Success is entirely accessible, even if you happen to be a huge screw-up 95 percent of the time.

If your current get-rich project fails, take what you learned and try something else. Keep repeating until something lucky happens. The universe has plenty of luck to go around; you just need to keep your hand raised until it's your turn. It helps to see failure as a road and not a wall.

A loss is just a loss. You get up again, dust yourself off, go at it again regardless of the circumstances. That's the way I look at it.

You have to learn how not to be defined by failure.

I can go back and fall on my head any time.

Sometimes it takes an injury to get your chance.