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

Make the urge to continue stronger than the desire to quit.

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal. If you give up before your goal has been reached, you are a "quitter." A quitter never wins—and a winner never quits. Lift this sentence out, write it on a piece of paper in letters an inch high, and place it where you will see it every night before you go to sleep, and every morning before you go to work.

In my journal I logged this comment: On the day that I was officially a grown woman, I felt anything but feminine rather, befouled from the sweat of hard physical labor and the stinking mud. I wanted nothing so much as to sleep for a week.

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.

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Failure is never fatal. But failure to change can and might be.

In the environment, every victory is temporary, every defeat permanent.

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

Violence is not completely fatal until it ceases to disturb us.

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

Life is easier than you'd think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable.