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Failure...
Failure is the highway to success. Tom Watson Sr. said, "If you want to succeed, double your failure rate." If you study history, you will find that all stories of success are also stories of great failures. But people don't see the failures. They only see one side of the picture and they say that person got lucky: "He must have been at the right place at the right time."
Let me share someone's life history with you. This was a man who failed in business at the age of 21 ; was defeated in a legislative race at age 22; failed again in business at age 24; overcame the death of his sweetheart at age 26; had a nervous breakdown at age 27; lost a congressional race at age 34; lost a senatorial race at age 45; failed in an effort to become vice-president at age 47; lost a senatorial race at age 49; and was elected president of the United States at age 52. This man was Abraham Lincoln. Would you call him a failure? He could have quit. But to Lincoln, defeat was a detour and not a dead end.
Colonel Sanders, at age 65, with a beat-up car and a $100 from Social Security, realized he had to do something. He remembered his mother's recipe and went out selling. How many doors did he have to knock on before he got his first order? It is estimated that he had knocked on more than a thousand doors before he got his first order. How many of us quit after three tries, ten tries, a hundred tries, and then we say
we tried as hard as we could?
Henry Ford forgot to put the reverse gear in the first car he made. Do you consider these people failures? They succeeded in spite of problems, not in the absence of them. But to the outside world, it appears as though they just got lucky. All success stories are stories of great failures. The only difference is that every time they failed, they bounced back. This is called failing forward, rather than backward. You learn and move forward. Learn from your failure and keep moving.
Have a superb day!!
Let me share someone's life history with you. This was a man who failed in business at the age of 21 ; was defeated in a legislative race at age 22; failed again in business at age 24; overcame the death of his sweetheart at age 26; had a nervous breakdown at age 27; lost a congressional race at age 34; lost a senatorial race at age 45; failed in an effort to become vice-president at age 47; lost a senatorial race at age 49; and was elected president of the United States at age 52. This man was Abraham Lincoln. Would you call him a failure? He could have quit. But to Lincoln, defeat was a detour and not a dead end.
Colonel Sanders, at age 65, with a beat-up car and a $100 from Social Security, realized he had to do something. He remembered his mother's recipe and went out selling. How many doors did he have to knock on before he got his first order? It is estimated that he had knocked on more than a thousand doors before he got his first order. How many of us quit after three tries, ten tries, a hundred tries, and then we say
we tried as hard as we could?
Henry Ford forgot to put the reverse gear in the first car he made. Do you consider these people failures? They succeeded in spite of problems, not in the absence of them. But to the outside world, it appears as though they just got lucky. All success stories are stories of great failures. The only difference is that every time they failed, they bounced back. This is called failing forward, rather than backward. You learn and move forward. Learn from your failure and keep moving.
Have a superb day!!
Last edited by rein_force on Sat Feb 21, 2009 7:51 pm; edited 4 times in total (Reason for editing : caps lock & colourful header)
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SUCCESS is everyönes desire bv nöne of them wants or expect failures caused they are drowned by their abilities and cåpability!
But for me SUCCESS IS THE FRUIT AND GAINS OF MY FAILURES !
Praying everybody will too!
But for me SUCCESS IS THE FRUIT AND GAINS OF MY FAILURES !
Praying everybody will too!
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“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.”
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“Success builds character, failure reveals it”
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...YOU ALWAYS PASS FAILURE ON THE WAY TO SUCCESS!!!
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Half of the failures in life come from pulling one's horse when he is leaping.
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Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.
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Failure is blindness to the strategic element in events; success is readiness for instant action when the opportune moment arrives.
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There is no impossibility to him who stands prepared to conquer every hazard.
The fearful are the failing.
The fearful are the failing.
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We learn wisdom from failure much more than success. We often discover what we will do, by finding out what we will not do.
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I was never afraid of failure, for I would sooner fail than not be among the best.
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One who fears failure limits his activities.
Failure is only the opportunity to more
intelligently begin again.
Failure is only the opportunity to more
intelligently begin again.
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The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually be afraid you will make one.
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Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them.
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Our greatest glory consist not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
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Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.
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A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed--I well know.
For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.
For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.
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There is no impossibility to him who stands prepared to conquer every hazard.
The fearful are the failing.
The fearful are the failing.
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Disappointments are to the soul what thunderstorms are to the air.
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There is no failure except in no longer trying.
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failure is not the end of everything.....
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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.
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