The only real failure in life is giving up. On looking back let it stand to our credit in life's balance sheet that at least we tried, and tried hard.

Every man has his secret desire, I suppose, and mine is someday to own a farm.

Here's to the men who lose! What though their work be e'er so nobly plann'd And watched with zealous care; No glorious halo crowns their efforts grand-- Contempt is Failure's share!

You can't start at the top.

A man may fall many times, but he won't be a failure until he says that someone pushed him.

Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.