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

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

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

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

Failure is an event not a person

Failure cannot cope with persistence.

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

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

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

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

Man knows so much and does so little.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The worst prison would be a closed heart.

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