Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

By the way that he came, by the same shall he return.

Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek ...

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

Greatly begin! Though thou have time But for a line, be that sublime Not failure, but low aim is crime.

He beat the bushes without taking the birds.

He ploughs in sand, and sows against the wind, That hopes for constant love of woman kind.

He that trusteth in his riches shall fall.

How are the mighty fallen in the midst of battle! O Jonathan, thou wast slain in thine high places.

I have no use for men who fail. The cause of their failure is no business of mine, but I want successful men as my associates.