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Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but
simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal.

—Elbert Hubbard, writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher

Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what
doesn’t work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new
approach.

—Roger Von Oech, speaker, author, and toy maker

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It
is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by
saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

—Denis Waitley, motivational speaker, writer, and consultant

Success has many fathers but failure is an orphan.

—John F. Kennedy, US president

I’ve learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.

—Jack Welch, chairman and CEO of GE