Benjamin Franklin said, I haven’t failed, I’ve had 10,000 ideas that didn’t work. Thomas Edison said, Of the 200 light bulbs that didn’t work, every failure told me something that I was able to incorporate into the next attempt. Theater director John Littlewood said, If we don’t get lost, we’ll never find a new route.

All of them understood that failures and false starts are a precondition of success.

I’m sure if we were to ask Moses, Abraham, and Jacob, they would say the same thing. Getting lost for 40 years in a desert? Total failure. Finding the Promise Land? Major success. Speaking with a stutter and being a murderer? Not the leader anyone would assume. Being the patriarch of a people in existence still today? Success in spite of multiple failures.

Failures and false starts are a precondition of success.

We are given divine room for error. Though failure is painful and disillusioning, we are truly blessed to see those who have failed miserably get back up and successfully fight. Those who let failure dictate ambition will never find the courage to press forward.

Press forward. Failures and false starts are a precondition of success.


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