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

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.

Failure cannot cope with persistence.

Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.

The worst prison would be a closed heart.

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

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

Dwelling on negative thoughts is like fertilizing weeds.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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