Great work is always shunned at first.

When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure so I did ten times more work.

I'm the most stubborn person I know.

Often, we have only focused on what we've done wrong as a nation. Of course we should face our sins and our mistakes. But if we get stuck there and don't focus on where we've come from and how we've overcome those sins and mistakes, we are truly to be pitied.

Every stumble is not a fall, and every fall does not mean failure.

There are many men who would have done better than I did under the circumstances in which I found myself. If I had never held command, if I had fallen, there were 10,000 behind who would have followed the contest to the end and never surrendered the Union.

Don't be afraid of your worst times. If you learn from them, you'll look back on them as the best times.

Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.

Being an # entrepreneur is not a get-rich scheme; it takes # strength of character to keep going.

What our Heavenly Father wants us to do about our spiritual failures is like what our earthly father wants us to do about our earthly failures. When we fall off the horse, or the bike, or the high road to Heaven, we must simply climb on again as soon as we are aware of the fact that we have fallen off, rather than sitting there stewing in self-pity or self-hatred.

it's not how far you fall, but how high you bounce that counts.

Failure is an event not a person.