Behind any Successful Person Stands a Long String of Failures...
Behind any successful person stands a long string of failures. Keep things in perspective.
Abraham Lincoln was literally a failure at everything he tried until he was well past 40 years old. Sometimes, we prematurely write people off as failures. Learning to fail is important for us all. Our first steps, our first bike rides without training wheels give us an idea of what failure feels like. As we truly find balance, scraping our knees, bruising ourselves happens less and less. Hard work and good habits are the difference between success and failure.
Walt Disney was fired by the newspaper where he worked because he lacked imagination and had no good ideas. After that, he started a number of businesses that all ended in failure and bankruptcy. He eventually found a recipe for success that worked. (For the record, I’m still more of a Universal Studios fan than Disneyworld, just saying…)
Human nature is that we like to take credit for our successes and blame others for our failures. Failure doesn’t make you a failure, it’s an event, not an identity.
Eminem – “success is my only option failure’s not…”
Bo Bahnsen – “Life is full of memories, some good and some bad…remember the ones that made you happy and learn from the ones that made you sad…”
Michael Jordan – “I’ve failed over and over in my life, and that is why I have succeeded…”
Confucious – “Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail…”
Churchill – “Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm…”
Failure is a temporary state, learn to come back stronger every time learning along the way.
Have a great weekend!
God Bless,
Dan from Indiana