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

Michael Jordan on Failure

More quotes about Failure

  • "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."

    Theodore Roosevelt on Failure

  • "Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."

    Calvin Coolidge on Failure

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

    Abraham Lincoln on Failure

  • "Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important."

    Steve Jobs on Failure

  • "I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy."

    Tony Robbins on Failure

More quotes by Michael Jordan

  • "My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength."

  • "I hope the millions of people I've touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and hard work and persevere with a positive attitude."

  • "The best evaluation I can make of a player is to look in his eyes and see how scared they are."

  • "I want to be perceived as a guy who played his best in all facets, not just scoring. A guy who loved challenges."

  • "If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome."

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