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

Dwelling on negative thoughts is like fertilizing weeds.

Failure cannot cope with persistence.

Nature never excuses lapses.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Failure is an event not a person

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

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

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

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

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

Man knows so much and does so little.

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

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