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.

Nature never excuses lapses.

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

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

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

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

Dwelling on negative thoughts is like fertilizing weeds.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The worst prison would be a closed heart.

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

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

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

Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.

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

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