Paul Valery Quotes

All great success is preceded by failure.

Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come.

Succes is really nothing more than the record of failure. To be successful means you must be willing to fail more than anyone else.

Every time you quit, someone else gets your prize. Every time you make a mistake, you get closer to yours.

Failure is nothing more than learning how to win.

The more you fail, the more you succeed. It is only when everything is lost and - instead of giving up - you go on, that you experience the momentary prospect of some slight progress. Suddenly you have the feeling - be it an illusion or not - that something new has opened up.

Failure is not the opposite of success; it's part of success.

If you're having trouble succeeding, fail.

If success were easy, then it would not necessarily be true success. Some of history's most successful people learned to cope with failure as a natural offshoot of the experimental and creative process and often learned more from their failures than their successes. By taking the attitude that failure is merely a detour on the way to our destination, hope can blossom into success.

Failure is a fundamental factor of success.

We Don't always succeed in what we try, certainly not by the world's standards, but I think you'll find it's the willingness to keep trying that matters most.

Success is sometimes the outcome of a whole string of failures.

Fall forward. Here's what I mean: Reggie Jackson struck out 2,600 times in his career - the most in the history of baseball. But you don't hear about the strikeouts. People remember the home runs. Fall forward. Thomas Edison conducted 1,000 failed experiments. Did you know that? I didn't either - because number 1,001 was the light bulb. Fall forward. Every failed experiment is one step closer to success.

The most successful people in American life are those that have had horrific failures and have come back, done it again and again until they got it right, whether it's Steve Jobs or Bill Gates or Warren Buffet.

It doesn't matter how many times you have failed.... What matters is the successful attempt.

You cannot succeed if at some point you haven't failed.

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

99 percent of success is built on failure.

We are not a failure just because we fail at something. Nobody is a failure unless they quit trying!

Failures, repeated failures, are sign-posts on the road to achievement. The only time you don't want to fail is the last time you try something (and it works).

Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose.

Failure is a stepping stone to success.

I strongly believe that whenever there's failure or you feel like you've failed, it's only just the beginning, and you can only learn from it.

Every great cause is born from repeated failures and from imperfect achievements.

You’ll fail at some things, that’s a learning experience that you need so that you can take that on to the next experience... What you learn from those challenges and those failures are what will get you past the next ones... I was the pretty consistent bull and the cheerleader on eBay actually.