Learning from Failure

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. Thomas A. Edison (thanks to brainyquote.com)

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again. Richard Branson (thanks to brainyquote.com)

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. Calvin Coolidge (thanks to brainyquote.com)

Calvin Coolidge, Silent Cal, became President of the United States when Harding died in 1923. He decided not to run for the office again. I think that that is too bad because he was one of the most brilliant of our presidents.

When you read his quote on failure, you see that he was an observant man. Isn’t it true that too many people waste their talents or don’t use them at all?

And genius is not always rewarded nor does an educated man always succeed.

Pres. Coolidge said that we must be determined and persistent in our pursuits for success.

Richard Branson is a man who has had great success. He is always living on the frontier. Recently he had a big disaster in his program to fly ordinary citizens into space. But he said that they would learn from that disaster and that he would not quit and that he would be flying with his family into space to show that it was safe. Like his quote says, we must learn from our mistakes.

Thomas Jefferson, the master of failure, said that we quit too soon. That is, we are often on the verge of success when we give up. Now I know that that is true. I see it all the time on the Internet. I see it here at WAU.

Those who would like to earn money on the Internet often quit too soon because it is a tough row to hoe and it takes time to learn the tricks that will make you successful.

To avoid failure, we need to educate ourselves to the point where we do not fail over the obvious. We gently step over pitfalls and continue on our journey until we trip on a log and end up with mud in our face.

That is when we get up and trudge on.

John

P.S. i wrote this for another site but decided it was needed here much more.