Quote by W. Somerset Maugham

“A great man will experience more failures than successes. If we lived for the successes, we would have all killed ourselves by now.”

— Andrew Sturm

“Many great men can attribute their success to the fact that they didn't have the advantages other men had”

— Michelle Cohen Corasanti

“Before success comes in any man's life, he is sure to meet with much temporary defeat, and, perhaps, some failure.”

— Napoleon Hill

“The whole of human history was full of people who tried against the odds. Some succeeded, most failed, but that hadn't stopped them.”

— Matt Haig

“There will always be a temptation to tell a neat story that makes everything sensible and logical and that suggests why the deserving succeeded…

— Philip M. Rosenzweig

“I believe that, for the most part, we don’t succeed in spite of our hardships but precisely because of them.”

— Richard Paul Evans

“His was a lonely, unorthodox conviction that war was man's ultimate failure.”

— Sharon Kay Penman

“Women hoped harder than men, he thought, sometimes hard enough to change the outcome of things.”

— Jo-Ann Mapson

“Despite men's suffering, despite the blood and wrath, despite the dead who can never be replaced, the unjust wounds, and the wild bullets, we…

— Albert Camus

“When He died in the Wounded World He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man…

— C. S. Lewis

“When things worked, they were theirs; when they failed, they were his.”

— Jan Karon

“The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray. It is better than one should suffer than that many should be…

— Aldous Huxley