Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

He that is down needs fear no fall
He that is low, no pride.

He that is down needs fear no fall
He that is low, no pride.

The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.

The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.

Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.

Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.

Here's to the men who lose!
What though their work be e'er so nobly plann'd
And watched read more

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!

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.

Life's real failure is when you do not realize how close you were to success when you gave up.

Life's real failure is when you do not realize how close you were to success when you gave up.

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.