"Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success."

"Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough."

"Who misses, or who wins the prize?Go, lose and conquer as you can:But if you fail, or if you rise,Be each, pray God, a gentleman."

"When ideas fail, words come in very handy."

"Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time."

"For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation."

"It is not enough to succeed, others must fail."

"It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,"

"My play was a complete success. The audience was a failure."

"Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself."

"A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failures certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it."

"I would prefer even to fail with honor than to win by cheating"

"I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating."

"It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. - former US President Franklin D. Roosevelt"

"It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another, but above all try something."

"It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach."

"If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something."

"Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly."

"All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure."

"We fail to see that we can control our own destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become whatever we long to be."

"There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back."

"No man fails who does his best..."

"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort."

"I often speak to people who wonder why they continue to fail. In many situations, they are concentrating their efforts in the wrong places period."