Gretchen Rubin Quotes

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

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

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.

Perfectionist is sometimes the wrong word... It means like you're never satisfied, or you're upset by every single failure - any type of failure. And so for me, I don't look at failure as necessarily a bad thing as long as I'm able to learn from it and take something from it, so that next time I'm in that situation I know how to succeed.

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

To succeed takes more than the desire to win. It also takes the acceptance that we could fail.

Unless you're willing to fail miserably in the pursuit of your dreams, you'll never make it.

You expect success, you respect failure.

When it comes down to it, at the end of the day, I need more out of my life and I need to push myself harder. And if at the end of the day I don't have it, then I don't have it, but at least I'm going to put myself out there. If I fail, I'm going to fail terrifically.

When you go through life, when you go through different things, you take risks, you question yourself. I think everybody does, at some point in their life, question themselves.

You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.

I always tell friends you can't judge your success by someone else's. You can't be afraid to fail.

I like to paint, I'm absolutely no good at it, but I'm so comfortable with that because it's good for me to have something to fail at.

Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.

I'm always looking for a new thing that really terrifies me that I think I can't do it and accomplish that.

I'm now so keenly aware that I have everything to prove and nothing to lose.

Failure's a marker of success in its own right because you went out and tried something... If you really don't want to fail, go find a comfortable chair and stay there. Just don't go out and do anything.

Many people don't even want to start something until they feel fairly confident that they will be a success at it. But me? I love to throw myself into things headfirst and fail all over the place.

You need emotional intelligence; to be happy to take risks; to be competitive and to look forward not backwards.

From what I came from, all the negative criticism - that keeps me from embracing that title of being the best. Because I always feel like there is another level I have to get to.

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

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

The willingness to fail gives us the freedom to succeed.

Even if I make a fool of myself, it's better to have tried.