Mason Cooley Quotes

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.

Failure is an indispensable prerequisite of success. It is how you learn the lessons you need.

There is a distinction between failing and being a failure. Few things are learned in life without failing at least once. Did you learn to roller skate without falling a few times? Did you learn to ride a bike without losing your balance? Chances are you didn't. You may have wanted to do those things so intensely that you quickly put unsuccessful attempts behind you and kept trying. Soon you acquired the skill to do the thing you wanted. Even though in the process of learning you may have failed many times, you were not a failure. "Failing" simply became an open door to try again.

People learn from failure or from lack of success.

Recognize that there will be failures, and acknowledge that there will be obstacles. But you will learn from your mistakes and the mistakes of others, for there is very little learning in success.

If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.

Too often we just look at these glistening successes. Behind them in many, many cases is failure along the way, and that doesn't get put into the Wikipedia story or the bio. Yet those failures teach you every bit as much as the successes.

You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success - on the far side of failure.

Treat failure as a lesson on how not to approach achieving a goal, and then use that learning to improve your chances of success when you try again. Failure is only the end if you decide to stop.

It's OK when something doesn't work. It gives you another data point when things do work.

Failure is a learning experience, and the guy who has never failed has never done anything.

Failure is success training.

Success is sometimes the outcome of a whole string of failures.

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

I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it

Failure will never stand int he way of success if you learn from it.

Nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks. Fall forward. Every failed experiment is one step closer to success.

Failure is so much more interesting because you learn from it. That's what we should be teaching children at school, that being successful the first time, there's nothing in it. There's no interest, you learn nothing actually.

Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.

Failure means you've now learned another valuable lesson that pushes you one step closer to success.

Failure is simply a price we pay to achieve success

One way to learn to do something right is to do something wrong. Failure must teach us, or surely success will not reward us.

No man or woman is uniformly successful... we must all expect a rather high percentage of failure in the things we attempt.

The greatest successes grow out of great failures. In numerous instances the result is better that comes after a series of abortive experiences than it would have been if it had come at once; for all these successive failures induce a skill which is so much additional power working into the final achievement.... The hand that evokes such perfect music from the instrument has often failed in its touch, and bungled among the keys.... Every disappointed effort fences in and indicates the only possible path of success, and makes it easier to find.

Failure is a stepping stone to success.