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Failure is the highway to success. If you want to success, double your failure rate.
If you study history, you will find that all stories of success are also stories of great failures. The world only sees success. They do not see the struggle behind the success and say, he got lucky, he must have been at the right place at the right time.
With these many failures, Lincoln had quit, probably nobody would have blamed him but nobody would remember him either. He could have quit, hung his head in shame and gone back to his law practice. But ot Lincoln, defeat was a detour, not a dead end. The greatest people in the world turn a setback into a comeback.
Success is not the absence of failure. It is overcoming failure. Successful people do not do great things, they only do small things in a great way.
All success stories are stores of great failures. The only difference is that every time they failed, they bounced back. This is called failing forward, rather than backward. You learn and move forward. Learn from your failure and keep going.
Thomas Edison failed approximately 10,000 times while he was working on the light bulb. Henry Ford was broke at the age of forty. Young Beethoven was told that he had no talent for music, but he gave some of the best music to the world.
Setback are inevitable. A setback can act as a driving force and also teach us humility. In grief, you will find courage and faith to overcome the setback, fear and doubt short circuit the mind.
After every setback, ask yourself, what I learned from the experience. Only then will you be able to turn a stumbling block into a stepping stone.
Prosperity and success are the result of our thoughts and decisions. It is for us to decide what thoughts will dominate our lives. Success is not an accident. It is the result of our attitude.
