Failure seems to be nature’s plan for preparing men for great responsibilities.
Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again.
Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one when success is almost within reach.
Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
Dream big and dare to fail.
Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.
Before success comes in any man’s life, he is sure to meet with much temporary defeat, and, perhaps, some failure. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and most logical thing to do is to QUIT. That is exactly what the majority of men do.
Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
A person ignorant of the possibility of failure can be a halfbrick in the path of the bicycle of history.