John Backus Quotes

You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure.

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

Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know. I truly believe what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Even if you fail, learning and moving on is sometimes the best thing.

What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.

You can't have a hit every time. The main thing is to keep on working and not be afraid to take risks. It's better to do something that's not perfect and successful every time. It's important to be fearless and move forward, to learn from what went wrong.

I've bombed on stage millions and millions of times. And that's part of it. You go up with a half-baked idea, and you bomb, and so what? Nothing bad happens if you bomb.

Failure can teach you something, and as long as you're moving very, very quickly, you're going to start piling up the wins. Speed gives you the luxury to be able to fail.

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.

Celebrating failure is key. Half of what we do fails, at least.

As you begin to take action toward the fulfillment of your goals and dreams, you must realize that not every action will be perfect. Not every action will produce the desired result. Not every action will work. Making mistakes, getting it almost right, and experimenting to see what happens are all part of the process of eventually getting it right.

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.

You can't go into new life experiences without the understanding that yeah, you may fail, but knowing you might fail can't stop you from trying.

Don't be afraid to fail. For the love of God, don't be afraid to fail, because you're going to fail. So try to fail as hard as you can is what I would say, because you're always going to get up and you're going to learn something from it.

Everybody else is afraid to fail. I do not really care because when I fail, I try something new.

I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

To be successful at anything, you need the right to fail, not just occasionally.

In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. We need to change this attitude toward failure - and celebrate the idea that only by falling on our collective business faces do we learn enough to succeed down the road.

Don't be frightened of failure. It makes you stronger if you learn from your mistakes.

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

You have to expect failure; not everything is going to work.

Your willingness to fail is what will let you succeed.

There is a huge difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn't work. Failure is throwing in the towel and giving up. True success comes from failing repeatedly and as quickly as possible, before your cash or your willpower runs out.

I think the big thing is don't be afraid to fail.

Mistakes are acceptable if they're the result of moving forward.

I'm not afraid of falling or failing, because I've failed many times, and I learned from them.