Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
Sophia Loren
Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.
Robert Kiyosaki
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Seneca
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
George Bernard Shaw
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
Margaret Thatcher
The road to success is always under construction.
Lily Tomlin
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
David Brinkley
Life is like an onion: you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
Carl Sandburg
Hope is the power that gives us the power to step out and try.
Zig Ziglar
I am not bound to win, I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to the light I have.
Abraham Lincoln
Hope rises like a phoenix from the ashes of shattered dreams.
Samuel Sachs
Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass but learning to dance in the rain.
Vivian Greene
The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
David Viscott
Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To every one his own cross seems heaviest.
Italian proverbs
Under white ashes there is glowing coal.
It is always the worst wheel that creaks.
French proverbs
Do not judge of the ship while it is on the stocks.
The burden which is well borne becomes light.
Ovid
If you stand straight do not fear a crooked shadow.
Chinese proverbs