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!

Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise.
In great enterprises the attempt is enough.
[Lat., Quod read more

Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise.
In great enterprises the attempt is enough.
[Lat., Quod si deficiant vires, audacia certe
Laus erit: in magnis et voluisse sat est.]

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

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.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.

If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

He that is down can fall no lower.

He that is down can fall no lower.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.