By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.

Remember that failure is an event, not a person.

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

You may be hurt if you love too much, but you will live in misery if you love too little.

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache, carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or greater Benefit.

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.