Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man’s training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.
There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.
- Topic: Failure
- Location: Costa Maya, Mexico
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The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.
Without the assistance of that Divine Being who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail. Trusting in Him who can go with me, and remain with you, and be everywhere for good, let us confidently hope that all will yet be well.
Remember your dreams and fight for them. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible:the fear of failure.
Far better it is to dare might things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they in the gray twilight that knows nor victory nor defeat.
Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
A setback only paves the way for a comeback.
