Failure Quotes

I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.
- Oprah Winfrey
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I don't know the key to success but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
- Bill Cosby

I have learnt more from my mistakes than from my success.
- Sir Humpry Davy

I have missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occassions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot . . . and missed. And I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why . . . I succeed.
- Michael Jordon

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
- Thomas Edison
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I never thought of losing, but now that it's happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.
- Muhammad Ali
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I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.
- Lou Holtz

If something fails despite being carefully planned, carefully redesigned, and conscientiously executed, that failure often bespeaks underlying change and with it, opportunity.
- Peter Drucker
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If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.
- Anthony Robbins
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In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
- Vince Lombardi
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