A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The read more

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

And each forgets, as he strips and runs
With a brilliant, fitful pace,
It's the steady, quiet, read more

And each forgets, as he strips and runs
With a brilliant, fitful pace,
It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones
Who win in the lifelong race.
And each forgets that his youth has fled,
Forgets that his prime is past,
Till he stands one day, with a hope that's dead,
In the glare of the truth at last.

[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.

Men do not stumble over mountains, but over molehills.

Men do not stumble over mountains, but over molehills.

Failed the bright promise of your early day?

Failed the bright promise of your early day?

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

I'd rather try and fail than not try at all, as they say.

I'd rather try and fail than not try at all, as they say.

My imperfections and failures are as much a blessing from God as my successes and my talents and I lay read more

My imperfections and failures are as much a blessing from God as my successes and my talents and I lay them both at his feet.

Failures are divided into two classes--those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

Failures are divided into two classes--those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.