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“We get caught. How? Not by what we give but by what we expect. We get misery in return for our love: not from the fact that we love but from the fact that we want love in return. There is no misery where there is no want. Desire, want, is the father of all misery. Desires are bound by the laws of success and failure. Desires must bring misery.”

“Courage is the ability to go from failure to failure with enthusiasm.”

“I've missed more than 9000 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.”

“I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.”

“I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.”

“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”

“Sometimes a minute is really the difference between success and failure. There are times when you finish with ten seconds left, and one extra minute could've meant everything. You almost have to think of it as a sporting-event type of atmosphere: A football game is sixty minutes long. Think of how many games could be won or lost if the team had one more minute?”

“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.”

“My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.”

“Not failure, but low aim, is crime.”

“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.”

“You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.”

“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.”

“It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.”

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

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”

“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”

“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.”

“Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.”

“Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.”