subject: Creativity Quotes: 12 Inspiring Quotations to Help You Reach Your Full Creative Potential [print this page] To reach our full creative potential, we must not be afraid to make mistakes. Here are 12 inspirational quotes to help you exercise creativity and overcome the fear of failure.
1. "Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep." Scott Adams
2. "The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually be afraid you will make one." Elbert Hubbard
3. "The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live." Leo F. Buscaglia
4. "While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other person is busy making mistakes and becoming superior." Henry Link
5. "When we give ourselves permission to fail, we at the same time give ourselves permission to excel." Eloise Ristad
6. "Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in." Leonard Cohen
7. "I failed my way to success." Thomas Edison
8. "To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong." Joseph Chilton Pierce
9. "Being human means that you will make mistakes. Everyone does, even the best and brightest, the smartest and the most successful." Sibyl McLendon
10. "We overestimate the event and underestimate the process. Every fulfilled dream occurred because of dedication to the process." John Maxwell.
11. "Failure is a signpost to turn you in another direction." Oprah Winfrey
12. "Good people are good because they have come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom through success." William Saroyan
Creativity Quotes: 12 Inspiring Quotations to Help You Reach Your Full Creative Potential