Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.

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

Nature never excuses lapses.

Failure is an event not a person

Man knows so much and does so little.

Dwelling on negative thoughts is like fertilizing weeds.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

The worst prison would be a closed heart.

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

Failure cannot cope with persistence.

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

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

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

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

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