A failure establishes only this

“A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.”     John Christian Bovee

“People in their handling of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.”

“Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure.”     Joseph Heller

“Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.”     Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

“Courage changes things for the better…[With courage you can] stay with something long enough to succeed at it, realizing that it usually takes two, three or four times as long to succeed as you thought or hoped.”     Earl Nightingale