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"I've missed over 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot...and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."
-- Michael Jordan (Professional Basketball Player)

Don't Be Afraid To Fail

You've failed many times, although you don't remember.
You fell down the first time you tried to walk.
You almost drowned the first time you tried to swim.
Did you hit the ball the first time you swung a bat?
Heavy hitters, the ones who hit the most home runs, also strike out a lot.
R.H. Macy failed seven times before his store in New York caught on.
English novelist John Creasey got 753 rejection slips before he published 564 books.
Babe Ruth struck out 1330 times but he also hit 714 home runs.
Don't worry about failure.
Worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try.

-- Author Unknown

"There is something in most people that won't let them take defeat lying down. Call it anything you like, but to me it is faith - faith in God and in myself, faith that I can rise from every serious setback. Every person is licked without this."
-- Harold Russell (1914-2002) Academy Award-Winning actor who lost both hands in World War II

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."
-- Bill Cosby

"The majority of people meet with failure because they lack the persistence to create new plans to take the place of failed plans."
-- Mark Victor Hansen

"A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else."
-- John Burroughs

"Ninety-nine percent of all failures come from people who have a habit of making excuses."
-- George Washington Carver (American Botanist and Chemist 1864 - 1943)

"Failure? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks."
-- Dottie Walters

"Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent."
-- Marilyn vos Savant

"A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn."
-- Unknown

"At the worst so long as you don't do it the same way twice, you will eventually use up all the wrong ways of doing it; and thus, the next try will be the right one."
-- George F. Nordenholt

"Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer."-- Denis Waitley

"Even if he fails again and again to accomplish his purpose -- as he must until weakness is overcome -- the strength of character gained will be the measure of his true success, and this will form a new starting point for future power and triumph. "
-- James Allen, As A Man Thinketh

"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better."
-- Samuel Beckett, playwright and novelist

"Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there's love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong."
-- Ella Fitzgerald

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
-- Thomas A. Edison

"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall."
-- Vince Lombardi

"When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal."
-- Napoleon Hill

"Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have."
-- Louis E. Boone

"Every great improvement has come after repeated failures. Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement."
-- --Charles F. Kettering (1876-1958), engineer, scientist, inventor and social philosopher

"Failure can be a stepping stone to success – it’s never too late."
-- Dr. Ralph Wells, physician

"Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it."
-- Hank Aaron

"Failure is an event, not a person. Yesterday ended last night."
-- Zig Ziglar, speaker and author

"Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes."
-- John Dewey, Philosophy and Educator

"Failure is not fatal.
Failure should be our
teacher, not our undertaker.
It should challenge us to new
heights of accomplishments, not
pull us to new depths of despair.
From honest failure can
come valuable experience."

-- William Arthur Ward

"Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again."
-- Henry Ford

"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor."
-- Truman Capote

"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."
-- Theodore Roosevelt

"I can accept failure -- everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying."
-- Michael Jordan, basketball player