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.

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

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

The worst prison would be a closed heart.

Failure cannot cope with persistence.

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

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

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

Dwelling on negative thoughts is like fertilizing weeds.

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

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

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

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

Nature never excuses lapses.

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

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 is an event not a person

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

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