The only real failure in life is the failure to try.

The only real failure in life is the failure to try.

[Oxford] Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs and unpopular
names and impossible loyalties.

[Oxford] Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs and unpopular
names and impossible loyalties.

Try and fail, but don't fail to try.

Try and fail, but don't fail to try.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Why, like the hindmost chariot wheels, art curst
Still to be near but ne'er to reach the first.
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Why, like the hindmost chariot wheels, art curst
Still to be near but ne'er to reach the first.
[Lat., Nam quamvis prope to, quamvis temone sub uno
Verentem sese, frustra sectabere cantum
Cum rota posterior curras et in axe secundo.]

A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed--I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to read more

A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed--I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Allow me to offer my congratulations on the truly admirable skill
you have shown in keeping clear of the read more

Allow me to offer my congratulations on the truly admirable skill
you have shown in keeping clear of the mark. Not to have hit
once in so many trials, argues the most splendid talents for
missing.