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.

no one ever is defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.

Every great leader of the past, whose record I have examined, was beset by difficulties and met with temporary defeat before arriving.

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.

Remember, too, that all who succeed in life get off to a bad start, and pass through many heartbreaking struggles before they "arrive." The turning point in the lives of those who succeed, usually comes at the moment of some crisis, through which they are introduced to their "other selves.

I'm going to mess up. But I'm going to get back, you know, and get after it and try to do better the next day.

I was in a terrible mess in my childhood.

Mass celebrated on the hood of a jeep with shells bursting all around is as much the Mass as the liturgy celebrated in St John Lateran by the Bishop of Rome himself.

If you find yourself at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

The light of truth burns without a flicker in the depths of a house that is shaken with storms of passion and fear.

A man who fails well is greater than one who succeeds badly.