Sometimes you're gonna jump off a cliff and land flat on your face. Then you just get up and go again. But sometimes you dive off the cliff and start soaring with the eagles, and that's when you find new music, places that you've never been before.

The capacity to surmount failure without being discouraged is the chief asset of every person who attains outstanding success in any calling.

Failure is man-made circumstance. It is never real until accepted by man as permanent.

The majority of people are ready to throw their aims and purposes overboard, and give up at the first sign of opposition or misfortune. A few carry on DESPITE all opposition, until they attain their goal. These few are the Fords, Carnegies, Rockefellers, and Edisons. There may be no heroic connotation to the word persistence, but the quality is to the character of man what carbon is to steel.

The person who moves with definiteness recognizes the difference between temporary defeat and failure. When plans fail he substitutes others but he does not change his purpose. He perseveres.

Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Failure always is a blessing when it forces one to acquire knowledge or to build habits that lead to the achievement of one's major purpose in life.

There comes with every experience of temporary defeat, and every failure and every form of adversity, the seed of an equivalent benefit

Every failure carries with it the seed of an equivalent or greater reward'.

Failure brings a climax in which one has the privilege of clearing his mind of fear and making a new start in another direction.

In Success, defeat is but an incident. Obstacles, stumbling blocks, disappointment in ideals — these things weave into and form the Raiment to Success. For Success is a series of failures — put to flight. Learn to walk past Failure.

That is one of the tricks of opportunity. It has a sly habit of slipping in by the back door, and often it comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. Perhaps this is why so many fail to recognize opportunity. Mr.