John C. Maxwell Quotes

Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success.

Everyone is coming from a place of fear and my feeling is stop being so afraid. If something doesn't work then that's fine at least then you know it doesn't work. Don't worry so much about it not working, you can always fix that.

We are alive and need to take risks. And if we fail, so what? Who cares? It doesn't matter. Learn and move on without judgement.

What a shame to be so afraid of failure that you stop living. My wife has a great one-liner about failure: "Never consider yourself a failure-you can always serve as a bad example." She is right. Failure can be a better teacher than success.

One who fears failure limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again.

Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again. Most of us adults are so afraid, so cautious, so 'safe,' and therefore so shrinking and rigid and afraid that it is why so many humans fail. Most middle-aged adults have resigned themselves to failure.

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.

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

There can be no freedom without freedom to fail.

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

I really believe that entrepreneurship is about being able to face failure, manage failure and succeed after failing.

You need to have the courage to fail.

The willingness to fail gives us the freedom to succeed.

You cannot achieve success without the risk of failure. And I learned a long time ago, you cannot achieve success, if you fear failure. If you're not afraid to fail, man, you have a chance to succeed. But you're never gonna get there unless you risk it, all the way. I'll risk failure. Sometimes, half the fun is failing. Learning from your mistakes, waking up the next morning, and saying 'Okay. Watch out. Here I come again. A little bit smarter, licking my wounds, and really not looking forward to getting my ass kicked the way I just did yesterday.' So now, I'm just a little more dangerous.

If you want to succeed, double your failure rate.

My mother was a continual source of wisdom and great advice...she taught me that there is always a way around a problem-you've just got to find it. Keep trying doors; one will eventually open. She also taught me to accept failure as part and parcel of life. It's not the opposite of success; it's an integral part of success. I talk a lot about learning to become fearless in your approach to life. But fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It's the mastery of fear. It's all about getting up one more time than you fall down.

Failure is part of discovering the problem you need to be working on. If, as an entrepreneur, you are afraid to fail or to admit the failure of your efforts, then you completely lose any chance at being able to adapt and succeed at finding the problem that needs solving.

Failure is not the outcome - failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail.

Success Comes Through Rapidly Fixing our Mistakes Rather than Getting Things Right the First Time.

Dare to fail. If you never fail, you're never taken risks and that's no way to take on this life.

Failure is a prerequisite for great success. If you want to succeed faster, double your rate of failure.

When we begin to take our failures non-seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them.

When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.

If you can't embrace both failure or the possibility of failure, or the tremendous fear of failure, you can't be wildly successful. It's just an axiomatic truth.

There is no dishonor in losing the race. There is only dishonor in not racing because you are afraid to lose.