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“Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.”
When things end in failure, it’s natural to see it as the end. It’s natural to move on with little to no hope that success will ever follow. However, as this quote by writer and historian Edward Eggleston suggests, persistence can turn failed endings to new beginnings. It’s under the…
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“If you`re doing your best, you won`t have any time to worry about failure.”
This quote, by H. Jackson Brown Jr., puts the fear of failure into perspective. The fact of the matter is that if you’re doing the best you can and fail, there really isn’t much more you can do or could have done. There’s only what you can do afterwards, which…
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“Half the trouble in the world comes from people asking ‘What have I achieved?’ rather than ‘What have I enjoyed?’”
“Success is what happens after you have survived all of your disappointments.”
“Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.”
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“Without darkness, there are no dreams.”
If you happen to sleep with your eyes open in complete brightness, then you may not understand this quote. Otherwise, you’ll understand that without darkness, there are no dreams. You literally have to close your eyes in order to create darkness so you can fall asleep. This quote, by Karla…
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“Success is what happens after you have survived all of your disappointments.”
“When you want to get good at something, how you spend your time practicing is far more important than the amount of time you spend.”
“Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next.”
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“We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes―understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success.”
Sometimes in an attempt to avoid making the wrong decision and experiencing failure, we avoid taking any meaningful action. However, this quote by Arianna Huffington helps us to adopt the mindset of accepting that we won’t always make the right decision and that failure is imminent. This mindset can help…
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“It isn’t where you came from. It’s where you’re going that counts.”
One of the things in life that you have no control over is where you’re born. You often have no say over where you grow up either. You also have no control over unforeseen circumstances and events. Whether it’s a physical location or a non-physical circumstance, these things make up…
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“A dead end street is a good place to turn around.”
Whenever we approach a dead end on a road, street, or path, we instinctively turn around and go in a different direction. It makes no sense to continue down a path with no way out. And sometimes, it’s practically impossible. It also makes no sense to settle ourselves down at…
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The “Life Maze”
There’s a big difference between the maze you see drawn on paper and a physical maze one, typically made out of hedges. Sometimes, when we’re not sure which way to go in life, it helps to imagine our life as a physical maze. This depiction reveals three important realities about…
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“If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake.”
This quote, by Confucius, reminds us that our actual mistakes in life are ones that occur and are never corrected. Not correcting a mistake is what makes it be called a mistake. However, when we correct our mistakes, they are no longer called a mistake. They can then be called…
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“Don’t bury your failures, let them inspire you.”
Inspiration is often the spark that leads to meaningful action; and one great but under appreciated source of inspiration is actually failure. However, when we fail, we tend to want to forget it ever happened as quickly as possible. But as this quote by Robert Kiyosaki suggests, we shouldn’t bury…
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“Sometimes failure is the beginning of success.”
This quote comes from a novel by Astrid Scholte. It makes us imagine ourselves accomplishing a particular goal with our first step or attempt being falling flat on our face. It reminds us that sometimes there’ll be failures on our road to whatever destination we’re trying to reach. And sometimes…
