A series of failures may culminate in the best possible result..

If you're 40 years old and you've never had a failure, you've been deprived..

The better a man is, the more mistakes he will make, for the more new things he will try. I would never promote to a top-level job a man who was not ….

The man who forms the habit of beginning without finishing has simply formed the habit of failure..

Alas, all too often, the dream turns into a mud puddle. I am left looking at a disaster. What to do! Keep working. I ask the Almighty for help. That ….

Tree sitting is a last resort. When you see someone sitting in a tree trying to protect it, you know that every level of our society has failed..

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself..

Men fall from great fortune because of the same shortcomings that led to their rise..

Most men fail, not through lack of education or agreeable personal qualities, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless will..

You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them..

I have never worked for fame or praise, and shall not feel their loss as I otherwise would. I have never for a moment lost sight of the humble life I….

Philanthropic colonization is a failure. National colonization will succeed..

I sought excitement and, taking chances, I was all ready to fail in order to achieve something large..

Men are failures, not because they are stupid, but because they are not sufficiently impassioned..

Admitting errors clears the score and proves you wiser than before..

Discouragement is of all ages: In youth it is a presentiment, in old age a remembrance..

Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great vi….

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost..

'Fault' means failure to meet a standard. Whose? Mine..

If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all..

My days among the dead are passed; Around me I behold, Where'er these casual eyes are cast, The mighty minds of old; My never-failing friends are the….