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

Failure cannot cope with persistence.

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

Dwelling on negative thoughts is like fertilizing weeds.

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

Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.

Nature never excuses lapses.

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