Quotes About They never accepted defeat

"Most failures are simply challenges in progress that can provide a foundation for success."

— C. Manz

"No pressure no diamonds"

— Mary Case

"The Beatles (1962), we don't like their sound ' guitar music is on the way out."

— Decca Records

"Whenever you see a successful person, you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them."

— Vaibhav Shah

"The sun doesn't stop shining because of a few clouds block its sparkle. You shouldn't stop radiating your potential for the sake of a few irrational and self-limiting doubts."

— Unknown

"Despite their early failures, they went on to achieve greatness:"

— Unknown

"Failure is that early morning hour of darkness which precedes the dawning of the day of success."

— Leigh Mitchell Hodges

"I don't accept defeat as final. Only death is final, and even then I hope for a reprieve."

— Phil Gramm

"Fred Astaire's first screen test: 'Can't act - Can't sing, Balding, Can dance a little'"

— Unknown

"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but rising every time we fail."

— Confucius

"People with a growth mind-set welcome challenge."

— Carol Dweck

"Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It is quite simple. Double your rate of failure."

— Thomas J Watson

"The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his orders from one who does."

— Herbert B Prochow

"Somewhere a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success."

— Dowden

"Glory is sometimes born of catastrophe."

— National Review

"Entrepreneurs average three to eight failures before final success. What sets the successful ones apart is their amazing persistence. There are a lot of people out there with good and marketable ideas, but pure entrepreneurial types almost never accept defeat."

— Lisa Amos

"Elvis Prestly You ain't goin' nowhere, son. You ought to go back to drivin' a truck."

— Manager, Eddie Bond

"Albert Einstein (age 10) - 'You will never amount to much'"

— Schoolmaster.

"The Coca Cola Company. Sold only 400 bottles its first year in business."

— Unknown

"Men's best successes come after their disappointments."

— Henry Ward Beecher

"C. S Lewis (The Chronicles of Narnia) had over 800 rejections before he sold even one piece of writing."

— Unknown

"Failure is only an opportunity to begin again more intelligently."

— Henry Ford

"Thomas Edison - 'too stupid to learn anything'"

— Teacher.

"All progress takes place outside the comfort zone."

— Michael John Bobak

"Failure is God's own tool for carving some of the finest outlines in the character of his children."

— Thomas Hodgkin

"Steve Jobs: America's Greatest Failure."

— National Review

"Ludwig van Beethoven - No talent for music, as a composer he is hopeless."

— Music teacher

"Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. The only time you don't want to fail is the last time you try something' One fails forward toward success."

— Charles F Kettering