This had an unusual start.
I was wondering about (feeling grumpy, actually) the failures of the past week. And while writing about failure in my journal, I achieved a small success: I wrote three and a half pages of quotes about failure.
Here are the better ones (yes, some of them were, you know, failures):
• There is no such thing as a life without failure. You either earn it by taking risks or you choose it by doing nothing.
• Failure is the first half of learning how to do a better job next time.
• Failure is the admission price for success. Sadly, some people give up after having paid it.
• The odd thing about failure is, the more you try to avoid it, the more failure happens to you.
• Failure exists to test your commitment.
• Some of the most inspirational people in my life were the ones who told me that I'd fail. (Then I went to work, proving them wrong.)
• If you aren't busy failing, you're busy wasting your time.
• If we were supposed to be discouraged by failure, we'd still be crawling on our hands and knees.
• People who won't admit failure scare me. They're either hiding something or doing nothing.
• You can learn more from one ordinary failure than from a dozen extraordinary successes.
• There's no such thing as a perfect first draft.
• Failure is simply an invitation to try again by doing something different.
• Failure protects us from situations, relationships, and agreements that would never work out.
• Successful people fail strategically. That is, they plan failures that will put them in situations where they can learn, grow, and prosper.
• If you haven't failed, you have nothing to talk about.
• Fear of failure is discouragement that we give ourselves.
• The true measure of a success is the amount of failure that was overcome to achieve it.
Key Point: Go forth and fail.
Much success,
Steve Kaye
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