2. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas A. Edison
3. “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
4. “It’s failure that gives you the proper perspective on success.” – Ellen DeGeneres
5. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
6. “Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
7. “The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.” – Henry Ford
8. “Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.” – C.S. Lewis
9. “Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success.” – Robert T. Kiyosaki
10. “Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.” – Napoleon Hill
11. “You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don’t try to forget the mistakes, but you don’t dwell on it. You don’t let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.” – Johnny Cash
12. “It’s not how far you fall, but how high you bounce that counts.” – Zig Ziglar
13. “Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success. I’ve met people who don’t want to try for fear of failing.” – J.K. Rowling
14. “Count your failures. Each one takes you one step closer to the attainment of your goals.” – Greg Warner
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