Gerald Ford on failure

I’m Gerald Ford, and you’re not.

All of us who served in one war or another know very well that all wars are the glory and the agony of the young.

For millions of men and women, the church has been the hospital for the soul, the school for the mind and the safe depository for moral ideas.

I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot, and I missed. And I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is precisely why I succeed.

Michael Jordanborn 1963

Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

Michael Jordanborn 1963

Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment.

Nasreddin1208–1284Often credited to Jim Horning

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