“I’ve missed more than 9,000 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.”  - Michael Jordan

Here are some more excellent quotes on failure:

“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” – Robert F. Kennedy

“It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.” – Havelock Ellis

“It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.”  -  Samuel Smiles

“Remember, no man is a failure who has friends.”  - from the film, It’s A Wonderful Life

“It is not the critic who counts,

not the man who points out

how the strong man stumbled,

or where the doer of deeds

could have done better.

The credit belongs to the man

who is actually in the arena,

whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood,

who strives valiantly,

who errs and comes short again and again,

who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions,

and spends himself in a worthy cause,

who at best knows achievement

and who at the worst if he fails

at least fails while daring greatly

so that his place shall never be

with those cold and timid souls

who know neither victory nor defeat.”

- Theodore Roosevelt (From a speech given in Paris at the Sorbonne in 1910)

“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”  - Thomas Alva Edison

“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas Alva Edison

 “No garden is without its weeds.”  Thomas Fuller

“Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.”  - William Saroyan

“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill

“Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit.” – Napoleon Hill

Abraham Lincoln, Lucille Ball, and Michael Jordan are just a small sample of the thousands of success stories that first began with failure.

Watch this inspiring little clip which reveals the early failures and adversities of some famous people who are now icons of triumph and success.

Key messages of this video:

“Life = Risk”

“If you’ve never failed, you’ve never lived”

No matter how difficult the challenges you might be facing, keep in mind that some of the greatest people who’ve lived have overcome incredible obstacles and hardships on their paths to success.

This inspiring little clip portrays the early struggles and adversities of 21 high achievers, who ultimately persevered until they reached their goals, and beyond.

Featuring:

Helen Keller; Chuck Yeager; Ray Kroc; John Lennon; Thomas Edison; J.K. Rowling; Neil Armstrong; Henry Ford; Steve Jobs; Cesar Chavez; Albert Einstein; Walt Disney; John Wooden; Dwight Eisenhower; George Lucas; Debbie Fields; Sam Walton; Danica Patrick; Bill Gates; Michael Jordan; and Mother Teresa.

(The music soundtrack is “Breakaway”, from Kelly Clarkson.)