Failure seems to nature’s plan for preparing us for great responsibilities. If everything we attempted in life were achieved with the minimum effort and came…
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Failure is a blessing when it pushes us out of a cushioned seat of self-satisfaction and forces us to do something useful. If you carefully…
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If you have no major purpose, you are drifting toward certain failure. Not having a major purpose for your life is like trying to…
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Isn’t it peculiar that some people are so clever at inviting alibis and so dull at doing the job that would make alibis useless? If…
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Success attracts success and failure attracts failure because of the law of harmonious attraction. In physics, positive attract negatives and vice versa, but in…
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There is a vast difference between failure and temporary defeat. There is no such thing as failure, unless it is accepted as such. Every defeat…
219/365 – Setbacks
Success requires no explanation; failures must be doctored with alibis. The surest way to achieve acceptable in any organisation or in any line of…
215/365 – Quit
The average person would have quit at the first failure. That’s why there have been many average men and only one Edison. Thomas Edison…
214/365 – 10000 Fail
Edison failed 10000 times before perfection the incandescent electric lightbulb. Don’t worry if you fail once. Arguably America’s greatest inventor, Thomas Edison had an extraordinarily…
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Many successful people have found opportunities in failure and adversity that they could not recognise in more favourable circumstances. Samuel Johnson once observed that…