Here are also the two vessels, but the San Carlos without sailors, all having died of the scurvy, except two.

We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

There is no better teacher than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

I was lucky to come from a difficult area. It teaches you not just about football but also life.

The human spirit is so resilient, and failure teaches you so much.

Never mind the odds against you. If you doubled your effort, what would the odds against you do — send for reinforcements?

When life takes the wind out of your sails, it is to test you at the oars.

The artist's talent sits uneasy as an object of public acclaim, having been so long an object of private despair.

Failure inspires winners & defeats losers.

To dispair is to turn your back on God.

Stop a bit and think it over. There do be some knots mighty aisy to tie but the untying is a cat of a different brade.

wounded prisoners. I wish I could hope, Miss Oliver—it would help, I suppose. But hope seems dead in me. I can't hope without some reason for it—and there is no reason. When Miss Oliver had gone to her own room and Rilla was lying on her bed in the moonlight, praying desperately for a little strength, Susan stepped in like a gaunt shadow and sat down beside her. Rilla, dear, do not you worry. Little Jem is not dead. Oh, how can you believe