Failure.

“Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.”

“Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.”

“Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.”

“A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.”

“Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.”

“An army of sheep led by a lion would defeat an army of lions led by a sheep.”

“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry on as if nothing had happened.”

“A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.”

“Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.”

“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.”

“If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.”

“All roads to achievement lead through the land of failure.”

“God uses people who fail because there aren't any other kind around.”

“Failure is the greatest opportunity I have to know who I really am.”

“I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.”

“He that stumbles, if he does not fall, quickens his pace.”

“He that is a donkey, and believes himself a deer, finds out his mistake at the leaping of the ditch.”

“A donkey does not stumble twice over the same stone.”

“Don't worry if you make mistakes because that's how most people learn.”

“Better to jump and make a mistake than sit there too frightened to make a move.”

“Learn from the mistakes of others... you can't live long enough to make them all yourselves.”

“You've made mistakes in the past, you will probably make more in future, and that is okay.”

“There should be no shame in admitting to a mistake; after all, we really are only admitting that we are now wiser than we once were.”

“Stop beating yourself up for the past mistakes. You deserve your forgiveness.”

“Remember that failure is an event, not a person.”

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

“If there is a 50-50 chance that something can go wrong, then 9 times out of ten it will.”

“Inability to make decisions is one of the principal reasons executives fail. Deficiency in decision-making ranks much higher than lack of specific knowledge or technical know-how as an indicator of leadership failure.”

“Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.”

“If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.”

“No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.”

“Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.”

“Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.”

“Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.”

“The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.”

“The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.”

“Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.”

“When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.”

“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.”