Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" There are many victories worse than a defeat. "
George Eliot
Victories
Defeat
Failure
Related Quotes:
" The thing I always say to people is this: 'If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.' "
Robert Kiyosaki
Failure
Also
Success
" In reality, I am more a professor, one who reflects and mediates on spiritual questions. Practical governance is not my strong point, and this is certainly a weakness. But I do not see myself as a failure. For eight years, I carried out my work. "
Pope Benedict XVI
Spiritual
Myself
I Am
" One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king. "
Abraham Maslow
Live
King
Man
" There are people who say that you can't experiment... That condemns you to failure. "
Jose Mujica
Say
Failure
Experiment
" Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities. "
Napoleon Hill
You
Great
Nature
" Former Sen. Alan Simpson of Wyoming, the co-author of the 1986 Simpson-Mazzoli immigration reform bill, has said the failure of that bill was a function of the lack of an ID card system. "
Lawrence Kudlow
Immigration
Failure
Lack
" There are some defeats more triumphant than victories. "
Michel de Montaigne
Victories
Failure
More
" The only TV I would be interested in exploring would be live television. There's no substitute for a team of artists performing at their peak live when failure is possible. It's a high-wire act. That excites me. "
Francis Ford Coppola
Me
Live
Television
" The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life. "
George Eliot
New
New Life
Beginning
" The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best. "
George Eliot
Purpose
Failure
Fear
" Our educational system is not preparing people for the 21st Century. Failure is an essential part of entrepreneurship. If you work hard, you can get an 'A' pretty much guaranteed, but in entrepreneurship, that's not how it works. "
Eric Ries
Work Hard
Failure
People
" If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless. "
Robert H. Schuller
Failure
Victory
Then
" Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. "
George Eliot
Love
Lose
Anger
" An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry. "
George Eliot
Election
Universal
Peace
" In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain. "
Frederick William Robertson
Failure
World
Work
" Y'know, the real reason why I was such a failure in the sense of being unable to make any sort of a living was because I was really not motivated. I had no motivation. "
Paul Twitchell
Why
Motivation
Living
" Failure is impossible. "
Susan B. Anthony
Impossible
Failure
" He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being. "
Paul Tillich
Who
Failure
Being
" Failure is success if we learn from it. "
Malcolm Forbes
Success
Learn
Failure
" Even people who despise ego and aspire to humility, who plan to be humble once they are successful, are worried that actually enacting those beliefs would sentence them to a life of obscurity or weakness or failure. "
Ryan Holiday
Life
People
Humility
" Innovation demands risk-taking - which, in turn, entails redefining failure, stripping away its power to inhibit. "
Lynne Doughtie
Innovation
Power
Turn
" Failure's a marker of success in its own right because you went out and tried something... If you really don't want to fail, go find a comfortable chair and stay there. Just don't go out and do anything. "
Whitney Wolfe
Chair
Failure
Find
" For me, utter failure is to make a film that people pay their money to go see and they don't like. "
Peter Jackson
People
See
Failure
" Pharmaceutical companies are enjoying unprecedented profits and access with this Administration. Yet the Republicans' prescription drug plan for seniors has been a colossal failure, and over 43 million Americans wake up every morning without health insurance. "
Jim Clyburn
Failure
Plan
Morning
" One of the things I definitely think of as a driver of me is fear. And it's fear of failure, fear of being overtaken. "
Jocko Willink
Me
Fear
Failure
" I didn't pass my degree due to never handing in an acceptable dissertation, and while it didn't harm me in the long run, my failure to complete the course properly probably led me to spend the next six years or so coasting, unsure of what to do next. "
Charlie Brooker
Never
Me
Long
" I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence. "
George Eliot
Literary
Production
Social
" Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet. "
George Eliot
Music
Pain
Death
" I'm a polarizing person, so people get caught up in hoping I fail. And just like success, failure is a perspective. "
CM Punk
Failure
People
Perspective
" I believe that, in an ideal world, writers would feel free to write what matters to them without having to consider success, failure, the market, etc. "
Claire Messud
Failure
World
Success