The Rambo we know, Sylvester Stallone was rejected by over 1000 Hollywood agents before he had his first break through. One of the greatest investors of all times who went on to receive 1093 patents, more than anyone in the history of the world, is Thomas Alwa Edison. Even he had to fail 9,999times before he perfected the light bulb.
Einstein’s parents thought he was mentally retarded. Steven Spielberg was placed in special class for learning disabled. Isaac Newton did poorly in grade school. Beethoven’s music teacher told him, ‘you are hopeless’. Michael Jordan was dropped from his high school basketball team. Winston Churchill failed in his 6th grade. Edison’s teacher told him he was too stupid to learn anything.
Abraham Lincoln failed in business at the age of 21 and again 24. He was defeated in a legislative race at the age of 34 and again at the age of 45 and again at the age of 47. Yet, after all these failures, Abraham Lincoln went on to become the historic president of United States at the age of 52. Lincoln showed to all of us that if one wants rainbow on life, you got to be willing to put up with the rain.
Failure is a parenthesis inside which success hides. There is no sunrise without sunset. There is no life without death. There cannot be only success and no- failures. Champions understand that it is better to face outstanding failures than mediocre success. Only those who are willing to persist in spite of temporary set backs, only those who would not succumb to defeats, only those who persisted in spite of mid way failures went on to write success write success stories.
Nothing wrong ever turned out to be right in the long run. The very fact that so many failures have finally turned into success implies that failures are not wrong. Learn from your failures and move on. Edison said, “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” Just don’t give up. Keep on going.
