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

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

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

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

Man knows so much and does so little.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Failure is an event not a person

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

Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.

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

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

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

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