Dean Karnazes Quotes

I come from playing sports. I compete, so I gotta be better than I was last year. I gotta get better, and that better gotta come from just growing. From learning new stuff to working on it, experience it in life, and failing.

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

A person who refuses to risk change fails to grow.

Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try.

What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

I love mistakes because it's the only way you learn.

A person who makes few mistakes makes little progress.

You don't learn anything from success. You know, it's comfortable, it's nice, it's warm, but success just leaves you kind of feeling a little bloated.

Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.

We make mistakes, but we learn from them.

I have made mistakes and learnt from them.

If you aren't learning, you are regressing, because more growth comes from failure than from success.

We're all works in progress and we'll all keep growing.

The better a man is the more mistakes will he make – for the more new things he will try.

If you can't fail, you can never get better.

If you're not uncomfortable on a daily basis, you're not making much progress.

If you're an honest person, you'll make mistakes, but it'll be okay. The most interesting things happen after making mistakes.

As long as they are well-intentioned, mistakes are not a matter for shame but for learning

Mistakes are the stepping stones to success.

I strongly believe that whenever there's failure or you feel like you've failed, it's only just the beginning, and you can only learn from it.

If your life is ever going to get better, you'll have to take risks. There is simply no way you can grow without taking chances.

The most creative and most periods of my life that were, had the most growth, were the ones where I was perceived to be failing. Perceived success is a, is really hard 'cause it doesn't really, it's not asking you to grow, see failure is asking you to grow.

The only path to amazing runs directly through not-yet-amazing

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.

It's about the learning, because obviously I learn more when I fail than when I win.