Michael Jordan stated, "I've missed over nine thousand shots in my career. I've lost over three hundred games. Twenty-six times I took the game winning shot and missed... and because of the failures, I am a success."

Napoleon Hill, in his classic work, "The Encyclopedia of Success", for which he interviewed 500 of the most successful men and women in America, found that almost every single one of them achieved their greatest success just one step beyond where they had reached their greatest failure: that one of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.

When you get into a tight place and everything goes
against you, till it seems you could not hold on a
minute longer, never give up then, for that is just
the place and time that the tide will turn. -Harriet
Beecher Stowe

When someone asked Thomas Watson, the founder of IBM
"What is the key to success?" his reply was, "Double
your rate of failure!" Really successful people have
literally failed their way to the top.

It is in understanding and embracing the concept of
failure that we achieve true greatness as human beings. -Brian Tracy

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are
doomed if you don't try. -Beverly Sills