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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
- Experience
I don’t think there’s anything to be afraid of. Failure brings great rewards⁠—in the life of an artist.
Quentin Tarantinoborn 1963
- Art
In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.
?UnattributedOften credited to Albert Einstein
Inside of a ring or out, ain’t nothing wrong with going down. It’s staying down that’s wrong.
Muhammad Ali1942–2016
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963
Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
Vince Lombardi1913–1970
Failure is the only opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
Henry Ford1863–1947
The greatness comes not when things always go good for you. But the greatness comes when you’re really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments when sadness comes. Because only if you’ve been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.
Richard Nixon1913–1994Speech to the assembled White House staff before his final departure (August 9, 1974)
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Robert F. Kennedy1925–1968Day of Affirmation Address (1966)
If a man has talent and can’t use it, he’s failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know.
Thomas Wolfe1900–1938
I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.
THTom Hopkins
Failure is success if we learn from it.
Malcolm Forbes1919–1990
Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.
Earl Wilson1907–1987As quoted in 0 to Bitch in 10 Seconds Or Less: Quips and Comebacks for Quick-Witted Women (2005) by Amy Hatch, p. 268.
- Success