Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
Men's best successes come after their disappointments.
Don't let a kick in the ass stop you. It's how you cope that says what you are.
What is to be got at to make the air sweet the ground good under the feet can only be got at by failure trial again and again and again failure.
No honest work of man or woman "fails" it feeds the sum of all human action.
The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
Nothing succeeds like failure.
Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times you don't want to set him down as a failure until he's dead or loses his courage - and that's the same thing.
What we have most to fear is failure of the heart.
No man is a failure who is enjoying life.
Failure is not in losing but in no longer believing that winning is worthwhile.
He's no failure. He's not dead yet.
Inside of a ring or out ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong.
It ain't no disgrace for a man to fall but to lie there and grunt is.
If you have made mistakes even serious ones there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.
Not failure but low aim is a crime.
Perhaps the only real failure is that implying waste a conscious and flagrant non-use or misuse of ability.
There is no failure except in no longer trying.
Men do not fail they stop trying.
Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.
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