Failure

"Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure."

"Failure is an event, not a person. Yesterday ended last night."

"[Oxford] Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs and unpopular names and impossible loyalties."

"Now a' is done that men can do, And a' is done in vain."

"He that is down can fall no lower."

"Camelus desiderans cornua etiam aures perdidit."

"He ploughs in sand, and sows against the wind, That hopes for constant love of woman kind."

"Failed the bright promise of your early day?"

"You may boldly say, you did not plough Or trust the barren and ungrateful sands With the fruitful grain of your religious counsels."

""All honor to him who shall win the prize," The world has cried for a thousand years; But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears."

"If this fail, The pillar'd firmament is rottenness, And earth's base built on stubble."

"Nam quamvis prope to, quamvis temone sub uno Vertentem sese, frustra sectabere cantum Cum rota posterior curras et in axe secundo."

"Do not say before hand what you are going to do; for if you fail, you will be laughed at."

"Quod si deficiant vires, audacia certe Laus erit: in magnis et voluisse sat est."

"Allow me to offer my congratulations on the truly admirable skill you have shown in keeping clear of the mark. Not to have hit once in so many trials, argues the most splendid talents for missing."

"[Il] battoit les buissons sans prendre les ozillons."

"How are the mighty fallen!"

"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, 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."

"We have scotch'd the snake, not killed it."

"Abraham Van Helsing: Nothing is too small. I counsel you, put down in record even your doubts and surmises. Hereafter it may be of interest to you to see how true you guess. We learn from failure, not from success!"

"Not all who seem to fail have failed indeed, Not all who fail have therefor worked in vain. There is no failure for the good and brave."

"For he that believeth, bearing in hand, Plougheth in the water, and soweth in the sand."

"A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed—I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself."