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

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

You will soon break the bow if you keep it always stretched.

One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.

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

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

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

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

Man knows so much and does so little.

Failure cannot cope with persistence.

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

Failure is an event not a person

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

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

Nature never excuses lapses.

Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.

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

The worst prison would be a closed heart.

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

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

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