“Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
This prompt reminds me of a short video I saw on YouTube, wherein Obama spoke about how the most successful people are familiar with failures.
It’s an appropriate topic in my life. I tend to fail quite often. What is that saying though, you’re more likely to remember the negative outcomes versus the positive? Maybe I am too hard on myself. I do know that through all of my failures, I have tried to learn from them. Learn something new that I can take into my next adventure.
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.”
Winston Churchill
I tend to spend a lot of time thinking about failure. I guess you could say that I ruminate on it, to some degree. When I start to think about my own failures, I do it with the intent on learning from the failures to make my future self less likely to fail.
“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.”
Albert Einstein
I think I was watching another video or short on YouTube and someone said that either Gen Z or Gen Alpha are too afraid of failure to take leaps in life. They become paralyzed by it. I don’t know how true that is, but I’ve felt that in my own life and I’m a Millennial.
“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure — these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.”
Steve Jobs
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Great collection of quotes.
Thank you.