Failure is that early morning hour of darkness which precedes the dawning of the day of success.
Through failure we learn a lesson in humility which is probably needed painful though it is.
Disappointments are to the soul what the thunder-storm is to the air.
Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.
Keep trying. Take care of the small circle around you. When you have succeeded with them then move outwards one small step at a time.
I don't accept defeat as final. Only death is final - and even then I hope for a reprieve.
If you play it safe in life, you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore.
I am not ashamed of my failures. It is only a foot-stones for building my success.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Men's best successes come after their disappointments.
I've never met a person, I don't care what his condition, in whom I could not see possibilities. I don't care how much a man may consider himself a failure. I believe in him, for he can change the thi...
One of the advantages of defeat in life - maybe the main advantage - is that it provides an excuse for change. Defeat... invariably leads to new adventures.
No experiment is ever a complete failure. It can always be used as a bad example.
Mistakes and errors are the discipline through which we advance.
Many a man never fails because he never tries.
We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we can do ... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes.
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.
Sometimes what you want to do has to fail so you won't.
We learn courageous action by going forward whenever fear urges us back. A little boy was asked how he learned to skate. "By getting up every time I fell down " he answered.