Failure as a path to success
To achieve success or be successful in life, one must be a person of action, daring all odds to achieve your goals and accepting failure as a path to success.
Theodore Roosevelt once said:
" Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure than take rank with those poor spirit who neither enjoy much nor suffer much because they live the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat".
The quotation is simply saying that if you want to achieve success in life you should be daring and be ready to take the bull by the horn.
As a student, when you avoid studying a subject which you consider to be difficult because of your fear of failure, you are making a mistake because every time that you try, you accomplish something. Thus, give all efforts you got until you succeed.
Thomas Edison said "People are not remembered by how many times they failed,but how often they succeed"
Thomas Edison tried about one thousand times to find materials for the filament in the light bulb. He was not perturbed that he failed many times. He rather said that he was never discouraged, because he did not see those attempts as failures but as one thousand steps to success. Do not fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things.
Arnold Lazarus in his book "I CAN IF I WANT TO" stated that four kinds of changes must occur for you to get what you want, which are:
- You must identify something as a problem
- You must accept the possibility that something can be done about it
- You must express a desire to change
- You must be willing to work and make efforts to change
Inspiring post. Nothing good comes easy, so failure should be expected and seen as one of the challenges or test of life
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