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May 10 - June 21, 2024
Your relationships make you or they break you.
If your dreams are great, you achieve them only with a team.
Your attitude, more than your aptitude, will determine your altitude.
We are all failures—at least, all the best of us are. —J. M. BARRIE
The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.
There is no doubt in my mind that there are many ways to be a winner, but there is really only one way to be a loser and that is to fail and not look beyond the failure. —KYLE ROTE JR.
I feared failure.
I misunderstood failure.
Failure isn’t a percentage or a test. It’s not a single event. It’s a process.
Because in life, the question is not if you will have problems, but how you are going to deal with your problems. Are you going to fail forward or backward?
You have the potential to overcome any problems, mistakes, or misfortunes. All you have to do is learn to fail forward.
One of the greatest problems people have with failure is that they are too quick to judge isolated situations in their lives and label them as failures. Instead, they need to keep the bigger picture in mind.
People Think Failure Is Avoidable—It’s Not Everybody fails, errs, and makes mistakes. You’ve heard the saying “To err is human, to forgive divine.”
Just as success is not an event, neither is failure. It’s how you deal with life along the way. No one can conclude that he has failed until he breathes his last breath. Until then, he’s still in process, and the jury is still out.
Do you look at the size of the problem it causes or the amount of money it costs you or your organization? Is it determined by how much heat you have to take from your boss or by the criticism of your peers? No. Failure isn’t determined that way. The answer is that you are the only person who can really label what you do a failure. It’s subjective. Your perception of and response to your mistakes determine whether your actions are failures.
“Failure is good,” he says. “It’s fertilizer. Everything I’ve learned about coaching I’ve learned from making mistakes.”
Herbert V. Brocknow believes, “The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his orders from one who does.”
Musicologist Eloise Ristad emphasizes that “when we give ourselves permission to fail, we at the same time give ourselves permission to excel.”
“It doesn’t matter how much milk you spill as long as you don’t lose your cow.”
apostle Paul, who was able to say, “I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content.”
He realized that as long as he was doing what he was supposed to do, his being labeled success or failure by others really didn’t matter.
all roads to achievement lead through the land of failure. It has stood firmly between every human being who had a dream and the realization of that dream. The good news is that anyone can make it through failure. That’s why author Rob Parsons maintained that “tomorrow belongs to the failures.”
Failure is simply a price we pay to achieve success.
