Failure at some point might be the beginning of hope rather than the end

"Apply yourself, get all the education you can but then do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen."
"Failure is success if we learn from it."
- Lee Iaccoca

"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one."
- Malcolm Forbes

"Education is an admirable thing but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."
- Oscar Wilde

"Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure."
- George Edward Woodberry