I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas Edison
When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it - always.
Mahatma Gandhi
Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it.
When one door shuts, a hundred open.
Spanish proverbs
A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
G.K. Chesterton
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Chinese proverbs
Character is much easier kept than recovered.
Thomas Paine
By asking for the impossible, obtain the best possible.
Italian proverbs
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
Joseph Addison
It's not the load that breaks you down. It's the way you carry it.
C.S Lewis
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninty-nine percent perspiration.
Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.
Billy Graham
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
There are no gains without pains.
Benjamin Franklin
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry on as if nothing had happened.
Getting knocked down in life is a given. Getting up and moving forward is a choice.
Zig Ziglar
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
Japanese proverbs
