There's nothing more physically exhausting than a sense of failure..

Defeats and failures are great developers of character. They have made the giants of our race by giving Titanic muscles, brawny sinews, and far-reach….

Even after the greatest defeats, the depressing thought of being a failure is best combated by taking stock of all your past achievements..

Only a mediocre person is always at his best..

The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure..

If your life is free of failures, you're not taking enough risks..

The path of least resistance is the path of the loser..

Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail..

All who strive to live for something beyond mere selfish aims find their capacities for doing good very inadequate to their aspirations. They do so m….

The man who lives for himself is a failure. Even if he gains much wealth, position or fortune, he is still a failure. The man who lives for others ha….

I have impeached myself by resigning..

Although such research [into the paranormal] has yet to produce anything in the way of a repeatable controlled experiment, its practitioners argue th….

Fear of failure is at least as common as the desire for success. In fact, if harnessed properly, it can be the energy that drives the wheel..

Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes..

The contented have time to worry about trivialities; often to the extent that they never achieve anything worthwhile..

We women adore failures. They lean on us..

To many men, moderate success is only another aspect of failure..

He who can wait for what he desires takes the course not to be exceedingly grieved if he fails of it; he, on the contrary, who labors after a thing t….

The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere..

The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on….

It's not the failure that holds us back but the reluctance to begin over again that causes us to stagnate..