The only failure is not to try.

Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try.

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

I've certainly done some turkeys along the way and made some dumb choices in my career, mostly early on. I'm one of the lucky ones who got to make a lot of mistakes very early when no one was paying attention.

That's correct, I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn't write.

The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.

People want you to fail.

Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid.

There is no better test of character than a man's treatment of difficulties. The coward shuns them; the lazy man tries to go around them; the idler dawdles in front of them, waiting like Micawber for something to turn up or some miracle to remove them; the baby-man waits for some friend to lift him over them ; but the manly man surmounts them.

Can economic hardship, such as the loss of a job, be a blessing in disguise? Perhaps yes, if the result is the awakening of an entrepreneurial spirit and the creation of a new business.

When Divine Intelligence wants a great man or woman to render some needed service in the world, the fortunate one is tested out through some form of FAILURE. If you are undergoing what you believe to be failure, have patience; you may be passing through your testing time.

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