We need to teach a highly educated person that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently for failing is one of the...
Inaction contrary to its reputation for being a refuge is neither safe nor comfortable.
It is a very dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice.
There are two kinds of failures: The man who will do nothing he is told and the man who will do nothing else.
He who is shipwrecked the second time cannot lay the blame on Neptune.
Admitting error clears the score and proves you wiser than before.
Failures are divided into two classes: those who thought and never did and those who did and never thought.
When a man is pushed tormented defeated he has a chance to learn something he has been put on his wits on his manhood he has gained the facts learned his ignorance is cured of the insanity of...
A mistake is not a failure but evidence that someone tried to do something.
Perhaps the only real failure is that implying waste a conscious and flagrant non-use or misuse of ability.
He that's cheated twice by the same man is an accomplice with the cheater.
There's folks 'ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was i' their boots.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood who strives valiantly who errs and comes short again and again who knows the great enthu...
When you make a mistake don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet i...
If I win several tournaments in a row I get so confident I'm in a cloud. A loss gets me eager again.
Failure is not in losing but in no longer believing that winning is worthwhile.
When it goes wrong you feel like cutting your throat but you go on. You don't let anything get you down so much that it beats you or stops you.
Failure is delay but not defeat. It is a temporary detour not a dead-end street.
If your project doesn't work look for the part that you didn't think was important.
Failure is something made only by those who fail to dare not by those who dare to fail.