This document is a collection of quotes about failure from notable figures like Bill Gates, Thomas Edison, Abraham Lincoln, and Michael Jordan. The quotes emphasize that failure is an inevitable part of innovation and creativity, and that one can learn from failures. They encourage persevering through failures and not being afraid to take risks and try new things that could lead to success.

1. Failure is not an option.
For A Crash Course In Creativity
Standford University with
Professor Tina Seelig
By Diane Ruggiero
Member of Team Alexandria

2. It's fine to celebrate success
but it is more important to
heed the lessons of failure.
-Bill Gates

3. Ambition is the last refuge of
the failure.
-Oscar Wilde

4. Many of life's failures are
people who did not realize
how close they were to
success when they gave up.
-Thomas A. Edison

5. My great concern is not
whether you have failed, but
whether you are content with
your failure.
-Abraham Lincoln

6. I can accept failure, everyone
fails at something. But I can't
accept not trying.
-Michael Jordan

7. Success is often achieved by
those who don't know that
failure is inevitable.
-Coco Chanel

8. When I was young, I
observed that nine out of ten
things I did were failures. So
I did ten times more work.
-George Bernard Shaw

9. If you're not failing every now
and again, it's a sign you're
not doing anything very
innovative.
-Woody Allen

10. Failure after long
perseverance is much
grander than never to have a
striving good enough to be
called a failure.
-George Eliot

11. I don’t call it failure. It’s just
something that hadn’t been tried
before and it didn’t work out as I
had planned. The important
thing is to learn from it and have
fun in the trying.
-Diane Ruggiero

12. BE INSPIRED TO DO
SOMETHING SO GREAT
THAT YOU MIGHT FAIL!
-Diane