Success Through Failure

Ever feel like a failure? Or maybe other people have deemed you one? 

Don't let your failures define who you are. 

 One may be surprised to find that it is often through 'failure' that success is found. Courage and determination to get back up and not quit is the key!

Dont Be Afraid to Fail

You've failed many times, although you may not remember.

You fell down the first time you tried to walk.

You almost drowned the first time you tried to swim, didn't you?

Did you hit the ball the first time you swung a bat?

Heavy hitters, the ones who hit the most home runs, also strike out a lot.

R.H. Macy failed seven times before his store in New York caught on.

English Novelist John Creasey got 753 rejection slips before he published 564 books.

Babe Ruth struck out 1,330 times but he also hit 714 home runs.

Don't worry about failure.

Worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try.

~Author Unknown

What if these people had given up??

It is impossible to live without failing at something. But failure in life is inevitable. Unless you lived so cautiously that you might as well have not lived at all. ~J.K.Rowling

Listen With the Heart

This video has always touched me and reminds me to listen with my heart.  Too many times we judge others based only on what we see with our eyes or hear with our ears. Are they struggling? Are they in pain? Are they lonely or feeling loss? Have they just not been taught the better path?

We do not know what people are going through or why they make the choices they do. Getting close enough with our heart, to hear theirs, is wiser than just stamping them hopeless and walking on by. You never know, you may be the one who leads them down the road to something better.

By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are. ~Dietrich Bonhoeffer