A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
Source: In Instant Quotation Dictionary, by Donald O. Bolander, 1979.
-- John Burroughs, (Apr 3 1837-1921), US author, naturalist; He was a popular writer who, like Thoreau, celebrated nature in Wake Robin, 1871 and Birds and Poets, 1877.