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

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

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

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

Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.

Failure cannot cope with persistence.

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

Man knows so much and does so little.

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

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

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

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.

Nature never excuses lapses.

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

Failure is an event not a person

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

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

Dwelling on negative thoughts is like fertilizing weeds.

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

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