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.

Michael Jordan
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The greatest difficulty in facing the reality of failure is not the fear of failure itself, rather it is the fear of failure. To quote Vince Lombardi, "Failure is not falling down, it's staying down." In the words of Wayne Dyer, “When you wake up in the morning and ask yourself what you can do for others, you will have accomplished something.”

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