GET UP ONE MORE TIME THAN YOU’VE FALLEN DOWN

Have you ever failed or made a mistake? Good, then this nugget is for you. The fact that you’ve failed is proof that you’ve not finished. Failures and mistakes can be a bridge, not a barricade, to success. Successful people believe that mistakes are just feedback. It’s not how far you fall but how high you bounce that makes all the difference.
Theodore Roosevelt said, ‘’far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much because they live in the great twilight that knows not victory or defeat.’’ One of the riskiest things you can do in life is to take too many precautions and never have any failures or mistakes. Failure is the opportunity to start over more intelligently.
No one has ever achieved genuine success who did not, at one time or another, teeter on the edge of disaster. If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. The person who never makes a mistake must get awfully tired of doing nothing. If you’re not making mistakes, you’re not risking enough. Vernon sanders says, ‘’experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards. ‘’experience is what you get when you are looking for something else.
Success consists of getting up just one time more than you fall down. So get up and go on. Proverbs says, ‘’a man who refuses to admit his mistakes can never be successful, but if he confesses and forsakes them, he gets another chance.’’
The death of your dream will not happen because of a failure. Its death will come from indifference and apathy. The best way to go on after a failure is to learn the lesson and forget the details. If you don’t, you’ll become like the scalded dog that fears hot water, and afterwards, cold.
Failure can become a weight or it can give you wings. The only way to make a comeback is to go on. If the truth were known, 99 percent of success is built on former failure. A mistake usually proves somebody stopped talking long enough to do something. You’re like a tea bag: not worth much until you’ve been through some hot water.
Remember the old poem that says:
Success is failure turned inside out, The silver tint of the clouds of doubt.
And you never can tell how close you are; it may be near when seems so far.
So stick to the fight when you’re hardest hit; it’s when things seem worse that you must not quit.