"You gotta lose 'em some of the time. When you do, lose 'em right."
6
"You can't please everyone, but I've always felt you cannot ultimately lose if you give everything you try 110%. You'll always learn something useful, even from a failure, that can be applied to the next challenge or project."
5
"Enjoy failure and learn from it. You can never learn from success."
3
"If you try to do your best there is no failure."
5
"Failure isn't an option. I've erased the word 'fear' from my vocabulary, and I think when you erase fear, you can't fail."
6
"About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure."
4
"Failure is an enigma. You worry about it, and it teaches you something."
6
"You accept failure as a possible outcome of some of the experiments. If you don't get failures, you're not pushing hard enough on the objectives."
3
"Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure."
5
"You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which 'clicks."
4
"For my first show at 'SNL', I wrote a Bill Clinton sketch, and during our read-through, it wasn't getting any laughs. This weight of embarrassment came over me, and I felt like I was sweating from my spine out. But I realized, 'Okay, that happened, and I did not die.' You've got to experience failure to understand that you can survive it."
6
"Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure."
4
"If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost."
4
"There's a silly notion that failure's not an option at NASA. Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough."
6
"If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate."
4
"If something's important enough, you should try. Even if you - the probable outcome is failure."
3
"My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure."
6
"You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure."
5
"It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default."
6
"You have to be able to accept failure to get better."
5
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