Failure cannot cope with persistence.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The worst prison would be a closed heart.

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

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

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

Man knows so much and does so little.

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

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.

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

Failure is an event not a person