Failure...

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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!!

My imperfections and failures are as much a blessing from God as my successes and my talents and I lay them both at his feet.

Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up.

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, only this time more wisely.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

Half of the failures in life come from pulling one's horse when he is leaping.

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.

Failure is blindness to the strategic element in events; success is readiness for instant action when the opportune moment arrives.

There is no impossibility to him who stands prepared to conquer every hazard.
The fearful are the failing.

We learn wisdom from failure much more than success. We often discover what we will do, by finding out what we will not do.

One who fears failure limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually be afraid you will make one.

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them.

Our greatest glory consist not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.