Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.

The wise say that our failure is to form habits: for habit is the mark of a stereotyped world.

Failure is simply an opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.

Man knows so much and does so little.

Dream is not that you see in the sleep; dream is that does not allow you to sleep.

But man is not made for defeat,'he said. 'A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men.

If something's important enough, you should try. Even if you - the probable outcome is failure.

Failure is an event not a person

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.

To stumble twice against the same stone is a proverbial disgrace.

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want right now

Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.

At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.