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

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

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.

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

Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.

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

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

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

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

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

Nature never excuses lapses.

Failure cannot cope with persistence.

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.

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 an event not a person

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

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

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

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