Another one:
A successful person fails many times, but a failure only fails once. (I don't who said it.)
That first person sounds like failure to me. A persistent one, however.
I take it to mean that everyone fails and if you let a failure stop you, you'll never succeed. Successful people fail too, but they learn from their failures and move on, until they succeed.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. - Thomas A. Edison
Don't wait. The time will never be just right. - Napoleon Hill
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about. - Albert Einstein
Failure is rarely fatal. -Seth Godin
Eighty percent of success is showing up. - Woody Allen
My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them. -Richard Branson
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. - Thomas Jefferson