Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don’t fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.

It’s the philosophies of being an athlete that carry me today.

Surely our job while we’re here on Earth is to learn about the world, not to create parallel universes.

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

Live to learn, and you will really learn to live.

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

I believe in the battle-whether it’s the battle of a campaign or the battle of this office, which is a continuing battle.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

The making of the far-famed New York Central Park was opposed by even good men, with misguided pluck, perseverance, and ingenuity, but straight right won its way, and now that park is appreciated. So we confidently believe it will be with our great national parks and forest reservations.

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you.

My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring still.

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

I was never ignorant, as far as being experienced in classrooms and learning about different subjects and actually soaking it up, so I checked into college for a little bit. I took classes at a community college in West L.A. I took psychology, English, and philosophy.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

Many a man’s strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.

Without failure there is no achievement.

No matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it.

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

I think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming.

Well, I think that there’s a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you’re likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose… only then will you learn the game.

I’m not really book-smart.

As soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself. I just say to myself, ‚All right, well, I’d like to headline a tour,‘ and then when I get there, we’ll see what my next goal is.

Glory lies in the attempt to reach one’s goal and not in reaching it.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

The biggest mistake we made as a company was betting too much on HTML5.

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds.

The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

If four things are followed – having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance – then anything can be achieved.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won’t have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it.

My message to all the activists is to just keep going, and I know it really may seem impossible and hopeless sometimes – it always does – so you just have to keep going because if you try hard enough and long enough you will make a difference.

Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

You can’t score if you’re turning it over. It’s like a punt. If you go out and you punt 12 times, you’re not scoring points. That’s not good. So, when you turn the ball over and throw interceptions, you’re giving the other team more opportunities and your team less opportunities.

If a whole bunch of people want to make your life a living hell, they’re gonna do it.

We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.

It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

I stayed true to my dreams and, eventually, they came true.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Losing is not an option in Kolkata. It’s not easy, a lot of players even quit.

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

Didn’t get promoted? Good. More time to get better.

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God’s help I shall succeed.

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.

Kids will remind you that, even though you’ve gone down a road 100 times, it’s brand new for them – and that’s healthy.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.