John W. Gardner Quotes

People ask me, "How do I succeed?" Whatever it is they do, I say, "Go and find 20 ways of messing it up. By 21, you'll be getting there." Life is an adventure, go back with cuts, scars and bruises.

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

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

Failure is just another way to learn how to do something right.

Failure is success training.

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

Fall forward. Here's what I mean: Reggie Jackson struck out 2,600 times in his career - the most in the history of baseball. But you don't hear about the strikeouts. People remember the home runs. Fall forward. Thomas Edison conducted 1,000 failed experiments. Did you know that? I didn't either - because number 1,001 was the light bulb. Fall forward. Every failed experiment is one step closer to success.

Every failure teaches a man something, to wit, that he will probably fail again.

Failure is a stepping stone to success.

Failure is success in progress

Nothing in this world is a gift. Whatever must be learned must be learned the hard way.

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.

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.

Unless you're willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won't happen.

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

Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure.

You always want to try, in everything you do, to attempt something you've never tried before, and the only way to succeed at that is through failure, and the only way to succeed through failure is just banging your head against the wall over and over until you get to that interesting thing on the other side.

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

The only way you'll find out something is to fail because you only need one success to be successful.

'Fail hard, fail fast, fail often. It's the key to success.' This one I learned from experience!

We try, and we try, and we fail; and then we go deeper.

You cannot be successful without failure.

Many people dream of success. To me, success can only be achieved through repeated failure and introspection.

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