There are trivial1 truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true. -- Neils Bohr
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound2 truth may well be another profound truth. -- Niels Bohr
Destiny3 is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a thing to be acheived. -- William Jennings Bryant
To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. -- Francis Crawford
Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it. -- Josephus Daniels
... I have not failed. I ve just found 10,000 ways that won t work. -- Thomas Edison
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. -- Albert Einstein
Whether you think that you can, or that you can t, you are usually right. -- Henry Ford4
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. -- Robert G. Ingersoll
Mistakes are the portals of discovery. -- James Joyce
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing. -- Abraham Lincoln
The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter5 us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. -- Abraham Lincoln
Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory. -- Orison Swett Marden
No other success can compensate6 for failure in the home. -- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia7 of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he LDS Church, April, 1964
What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail? -- Robert Schuller
What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail? -- Robert Schuller
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed8 if you don t try. -- Beverly Sills
Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times worse than nothing. -- Sydney Smith
Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered9 by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise10. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile. -- Arnold Toynbee
If you want a place in the sun, you ve got to put up with a few blisters11. -- Abigail Van Buren
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail. -- Gore12 Vidal
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. -- George E. Woodberry
