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

Nature never excuses lapses.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.

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

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

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