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

Failure is the foundation of success, and the means by which it is achieved.

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

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

Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Failure is an event not a person

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

You have committed a double mistake, firstly by not keeping the engagement yesterday and secondly, by coming when you were not expected.

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.

The worst prison would be a closed heart.

The fire that warms us can also consume us; it is not the fault of the fire.

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

Failure cannot cope with persistence.

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