Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.

The only real failure in life is one not learned from.

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.

I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.

As I said there is nothing wrong with failing. Pick yourself up and try it again. You never are going to know how good you really are until you go out and face failure.

I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.

The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.

Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom.