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.

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

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

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

Man knows so much and does so little.

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

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

Failure cannot cope with persistence.

Dwelling on negative thoughts is like fertilizing weeds.

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

Nature never excuses lapses.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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