377 quotes found
“You are beaten to earth? Well well what's that? Come up with a smiling face it's nothing against you to fall down flat but to lie there - that's disgrace.”
“He alone fails who gives up and lies down.”
“The wisest person is not the one who has the fewest failures but the one who turns failures to best account.”
“Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.”
“Failure is not in losing but in no longer believing that winning is worthwhile.”
“One of the advantages of defeat in life - maybe the main advantage - is that it provides an excuse for change. Defeat... invariably leads to new adventures.”
“He's no failure. He's not dead yet.”
“Inside of a ring or out ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong.”
“Failure is God's own tool for carving some of the finest outlines in the character of his children.”
“It ain't no disgrace for a man to fall but to lie there and grunt is.”
“If you have made mistakes even serious ones there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.”
“If a man has a talent and cannot use it he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it he has partly failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it he has glori...”
“I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down.”
“Not failure but low aim is a crime.”
“There is only one real failure in life that is possible and that is not to be true to the best one knows.”
“Perhaps the only real failure is that implying waste a conscious and flagrant non-use or misuse of ability.”
“There are two kinds of failures: The man who will do nothing he is told and the man who will do nothing else.”
“From their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.”
“Having harvested all the knowledge and wisdom we can from our mistakes and failures we should put them behind us and go ahead.”
“Men do not fail they stop trying.”
