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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Failure cannot cope with persistence.

Failure is an event not a person

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

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

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

Man knows so much and does so little.

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

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

Nature never excuses lapses.

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