Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.

Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.