Philipp Meyer Quotes

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.

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

When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it.

Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.

You can see that all these people who did really great things failed six times or didn't get going until they were much older. I think that's much more instructive and educational.

Factors such as timing, luck, and destiny have a bearing on success. But success and failure are good teachers. Failure means something better is waiting for you. But I will allow myself to get upset at failure only if I know I have not given it my all.

I think my failures in Houston is what made me who I am. I think it's given me that drive, that drive to keep working, because you never know what can happen type deal.

When you put your all in and people say 'he has given up,' that is hard to take.

For the last three years that I have tried, people are laughing at me and saying that I was trying too hard. And my answer is yeah, I really am trying hard.

I believe success is delayed failure.

The success or failing in one competition doesn't define you, and that is one thing that any sports would teach you.

Greatness is not born from one success. Greatness is born from persevering through the countless failed attempts that preceded.

Ten thousand times I've done my best and all's to do again.

Most people with a big idea, great talent and/or something to say don't get lucky at first. Or second. Or even third. It's so easy to conclude that if you're not lucky, you're not good. So persistence becomes an essential element of good, because without persistence, you never get a chance to get lucky.

I think that persistence and stubbornness and hard work are probably, at the end of the day, more important than the willingness to take a risk.

Dream big - dream very big. Work hard - work very hard. And after you've done all you can, you stand, wait and fully surrender.

The only time we fail is when we stop trying.

You must expect failure after failure after failure before you succeed.

Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it's not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. it's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.

Most people would have given up when faced with all the criticism I've received over the years.

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.