Sophocles on failure

Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.

Death is not the worst evil, but rather when we wish to die and cannot.

Ah, son, may you prove luckier than your father, but in all else like him. Then you would not prove base.

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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