Three Reasons We Need to Embrace Failure

      Too many people are distracted by too many things to be able to focus on their lives and what they are supposed to accomplish in them.  We have a purpose we are here; some know their purpose others do not.  I want to help motivate you to find yours, if you haven't.  If you have found your; I want to push you to act on it.

      Go ahead strike out on your own and fail.  It will probably be the best thing that ever happened to you.  Find your purpose and act on it.
1. Failure makes up everything.

Every product you have ever purchased, book you have ever read or movie you have ever watched all have something in common.  They were at one point in their existence a failure.  Things don not just happen to come out of ideas as successes.  They require work and persistence to turn into something viable or meaningful.  Failure is part of everything.

2. Make Failure a part of your life.

Embrace failure as a staple of your thinking.  We need to attack our thoughts and turn our failures into successes. The only way to do that is to make failure part of our daily lives.  By doing this we become comfortable with it and how it makes us feel.  From the experiences of failure we can teach ourselves to succeed.  So fail some more and gain the knowledge necessary from those failures.  Accept that to gain any type of victory there must be a failure along the way or it won't be a worthy pursuit.  If it is too easy we may not see the successes.  Fail forward and live with it.  Do not let your emotions keep you from creating your failures and turning them into successes.

3. Failure is required to succeed.

Failed attempts at every product ever conceived.  Would they ever have been invented if someone didn't fail first only to correct the mistakes and build them into inevitable successes?  Never.  If you live your life afraid of failure then you aren't living at all.  Take manageable risks, do something you have always wanted to do and fail at it if you must. At least you will have a story about how you failed, gain the knowledge, apply it and continue on you will find your victory.  It lies in the failures you have yet to uncover.  Beyond those are the sea of your successes.

By: Tim Zugger

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30 Motivational Quotes

Quotes that can alter your attitude can help  make a difference for the whole day.  Whatever attitude you choose to get out of bed with this morning will be reinforced as your day moves on.  Here are some quotes that should motivate, inspire, recharge and might make you laugh.  Don't worry you'll catch those droids some day.

 

1. “If you don’t build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs.”

Dhirubhai Ambani

2. “The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.”
Mark Caine

3. “People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy.”
Tony Robbins

4. “When I dare to be powerful – to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
Audre Lorde

5. “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
Mark Twain

6. “Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.”
Eleanor Roosevelt

7. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
Thomas A. Edison

8. “If you don’t value your time, neither will others. Stop giving away your time and talents. Value what you know & start charging for it.”
Kim Garst

9. ”A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.”
David Brinkley

10. “Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
Steve Jobs

11. “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
Eleanor Roosevelt

12. “Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.”
Roger Babson

13. “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
Mahatma Gandhi

14. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.”
H Jackson Brown Jr.

15. “The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.”
Vince Lombardi

16. “Success is about creating benefit for all and enjoying the process. If you focus on this & adopt this definition, success is yours.”
Kelly Kim

17. “I used to want the words ‘She tried’ on my tombstone. Now I want ‘She did it.’”
Katherine Dunham

18. “Really it comes down to your philosophy. Do you want to play it safe and be good or do you want to take a chance and be great?”
Jimmy J

19. “It is our choices, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
J. K Rowling

20. “You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.”
Albert Einstein

21. “Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.”
Harriet Tubman

22. “The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.”
Bruce Lee

23. “Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.”
Swami Vivekananda

24. “Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.”
Dale Carnegie

25. “If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.”
Jim Rohn

26. “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.”
Ayn Rand

27. “If you genuinely want something, don’t wait for it – teach yourself to be impatient.”
Gurbaksh Chahal

28. “Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.”
Robert Kiyosaki

29. “If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you!”
T. Harv Eker

30. “You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.”
Steve Jobs

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26 People who FAILED

 26 Failures That Succeeded

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Not getting that promotion can feel like the end of the world, but the people on this list show that devastating failures are just another stop on the road to success.
We've put together some of the world's greatest success stories, from movie stars to scientists, who just happen to have experienced massive failure that could have easily made them give-up.
But they didn't and now they're the monumental successes that they are remembered for, a good source of encouragement when it feels like you will never make it to the top.

Winston Churchill failed the sixth grade. He was defeated in every public office role he ran for.

Then he became the British prime minister at the age of 62.

Thomas Edison's teachers told him he was "too stupid to learn anything."

Edison also famously invented 1,000 light bulbs before creating one that worked.

Harland David Sanders, the famous KFC "Colonel," couldn't sell his chicken. More than 1,000 restaurants rejected him.

But then one did, and today there are KFC restaurants bearing his image all over the world.

R.H. Macy had a history failing businesses, including a dud Macy's in NYC.

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But Macy kept up the hard work and ended up with the biggest department store in the world.

Steven Spielberg was rejected from his dream school, the University of Southern California, three times.

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He sought out an education somewhere else and dropped out to be a director.

Charlie Chaplin's act was rejected by executives because they thought it was too obscure for people to understand.

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But then they took a chance on Chaplin, who went on to become America's first bona fide movie star.

Marilyn Monroe's first contract with Columbia Pictures expired because they told her she wasn't pretty or talented enough to be an actress.

Monroe kept plugging away and is one of the most iconic actresses and sex symbols of all time.

Soichiro Honda was passed over for an engineering job at Toyota and left unemployed.

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But then he began making motorcycles, started a business and became a billionaire.

Vera Wang failed to make the U.S. Olympic figure-skating team. Then she became an editor at Vogue and was passed over for the editor-in-chief position.

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She began designing wedding gowns at 40 and today is the premier designer in the business, with a multi-billion dollar industry.

Walt Disney was fired by a newspaper editor because he "lacked imagination and had no good ideas."

Waltopia Google Video

Several more of his businesses failed before the premiere of his movie Snow White. Today, most childhoods wouldn't be the same without his ideas.

Albert Einstein didn't speak until age four and didn't read until age seven. His teachers labeled him "slow" and "mentally handicapped."

But Einstein just had a different way of thinking. He later won the Nobel prize in physics.

Charles Darwin was considered an average student. He gave up on a career in medicine and was going to school to become a parson.

Wikimedia Commons

But as Darwin studied nature, he found his calling.

Sir Isaac Newton was tasked with running the family farm but was a miserable failure.

Newton was sent off to Cambridge University and became a physics scholar.

Dick Cheney flunked out of Yale twice.

Wikipedia

George W. Bush once joked: "So now we know –if you graduate from Yale, you become president. If you drop out, you get to be vice president."

The first time Jerry Seinfeld went onstage, he was booed away by the jeering crowd.

Eventually, he became a famous comic with one of the most-loved sitcoms ever.

In Fred Astaire's first screen test, the judges wrote: "Can't act. Can't sing. Slightly bald. Can dance a little."

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Astaire went on to be the most famous dancer of all time and won the hearts of American women forever.

After Sidney Poitier's first audition, the casting director instructed him to just stop wasting everyone's time and "go be a dishwasher or something."

Wikimedia Commons

He went on to win an Academy Award and is admired by actors everywhere.

Oprah Winfrey was fired from her television reporting job because they told her she wasn't fit to be on screen.

But Winfrey rebounded and became the undisputed queen of television talk shows. She's also a billionaire.

Lucille Ball spent many years on the B-list and her agent told her to pursue a new career.

Wikimedia Commons

Then she got her big break on I Love Lucy.

After his first film, Harrison Ford underwhelmed the producer and was told he would probably never succeed.

But today Ford is the third highest-grossing actor of all time.

Vincent Van Gogh only sold one painting in his entire life, to a friend.

Wikimedia Commons

He sometimes starved in order to create the 800 paintings he'd eventually do. Today, his works are priceless.

Dr. Seuss' first book was rejected by 27 different publishers.

Wikimedia Commons

He's now the most popular children's book author ever.

Henry Ford's first auto company went out of business

AP Images

He abandoned a second because of a fight and a third went downhill because of declining sales.
He went on to become one of the greatest American entrepreneurs ever.

While developing his vacuum, Sir James Dyson went through 5,126 failed prototypes and his savings over 15 years.

But the 5,127th prototype worked and now the Dyson brand is the best-selling vacuum cleaner in the United States.

J.K. Rowling was unemployed, divorced and raising a daughter on social security while writing the first Harry Potter novel.

J.K. Rowling is now internationally renowned for her 7 book Harry Potter series and is the first person to become a billionaire from writing.

Stephen King was initially so frustrated with his first novel, Carrie that he threw it in the trash.

King's wife found the manuscript in the trash and took it out. To date his 49 novels have sold 350 million copies

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Winston Churchill failed the sixth grade. He was defeated in every public office role he ran for.

Then he became the British prime minister at the age of 62.

Thomas Edison's teachers told him he was "too stupid to learn anything."

Edison also famously invented 1,000 light bulbs before creating one that worked.

Harland David Sanders, the famous KFC "Colonel," couldn't sell his chicken. More than 1,000 restaurants rejected him.

But then one did, and today there are KFC restaurants bearing his image all over the world.

R.H. Macy had a history failing businesses, including a dud Macy's in NYC.

Wikimedia Commons

But Macy kept up the hard work and ended up with the biggest department store in the world.

Steven Spielberg was rejected from his dream school, the University of Southern California, three times.

Wikimedia Commons

He sought out an education somewhere else and dropped out to be a director.

Charlie Chaplin's act was rejected by executives because they thought it was too obscure for people to understand.

Wikimedia Commons

But then they took a chance on Chaplin, who went on to become America's first bona fide movie star.

Marilyn Monroe's first contract with Columbia Pictures expired because they told her she wasn't pretty or talented enough to be an actress.

Monroe kept plugging away and is one of the most iconic actresses and sex symbols of all time.

Soichiro Honda was passed over for an engineering job at Toyota and left unemployed.

AP Images

But then he began making motorcycles, started a business and became a billionaire.

Vera Wang failed to make the U.S. Olympic figure-skating team. Then she became an editor at Vogue and was passed over for the editor-in-chief position.

Wikimedia Commons

She began designing wedding gowns at 40 and today is the premier designer in the business, with a multi-billion dollar industry.

Walt Disney was fired by a newspaper editor because he "lacked imagination and had no good ideas."

Waltopia Google Video

Several more of his businesses failed before the premiere of his movie Snow White. Today, most childhoods wouldn't be the same without his ideas.

Albert Einstein didn't speak until age four and didn't read until age seven. His teachers labeled him "slow" and "mentally handicapped."

But Einstein just had a different way of thinking. He later won the Nobel prize in physics.

Charles Darwin was considered an average student. He gave up on a career in medicine and was going to school to become a parson.

Wikimedia Commons

But as Darwin studied nature, he found his calling.

Sir Isaac Newton was tasked with running the family farm but was a miserable failure.

Newton was sent off to Cambridge University and became a physics scholar.

Dick Cheney flunked out of Yale twice.

Wikipedia

George W. Bush once joked: "So now we know –if you graduate from Yale, you become president. If you drop out, you get to be vice president."

The first time Jerry Seinfeld went onstage, he was booed away by the jeering crowd.

Eventually, he became a famous comic with one of the most-loved sitcoms ever.

In Fred Astaire's first screen test, the judges wrote: "Can't act. Can't sing. Slightly bald. Can dance a little."

Wikimedia Commons

Astaire went on to be the most famous dancer of all time and won the hearts of American women forever.

After Sidney Poitier's first audition, the casting director instructed him to just stop wasting everyone's time and "go be a dishwasher or something."

Wikimedia Commons

He went on to win an Academy Award and is admired by actors everywhere.

Oprah Winfrey was fired from her television reporting job because they told her she wasn't fit to be on screen.

But Winfrey rebounded and became the undisputed queen of television talk shows. She's also a billionaire.

Lucille Ball spent many years on the B-list and her agent told her to pursue a new career.

Wikimedia Commons

Then she got her big break on I Love Lucy.

After his first film, Harrison Ford underwhelmed the producer and was told he would probably never succeed.

But today Ford is the third highest-grossing actor of all time.

Vincent Van Gogh only sold one painting in his entire life, to a friend.

Wikimedia Commons

He sometimes starved in order to create the 800 paintings he'd eventually do. Today, his works are priceless.

Dr. Seuss' first book was rejected by 27 different publishers.

Wikimedia Commons

He's now the most popular children's book author ever.

Henry Ford's first auto company went out of business

AP Images

He abandoned a second because of a fight and a third went downhill because of declining sales.
He went on to become one of the greatest American entrepreneurs ever.

While developing his vacuum, Sir James Dyson went through 5,126 failed prototypes and his savings over 15 years.

But the 5,127th prototype worked and now the Dyson brand is the best-selling vacuum cleaner in the United States.

J.K. Rowling was unemployed, divorced and raising a daughter on social security while writing the first Harry Potter novel.

J.K. Rowling is now internationally renowned for her 7 book Harry Potter series and is the first person to become a billionaire from writing.

Stephen King was initially so frustrated with his first novel, Carrie that he threw it in the trash.

King's wife found the manuscript in the trash and took it out. To date his 49 novels have sold 350 million copies

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