Don't fail to try new things!

"It is alright to try and fail, but don't fail to try!"

There is an element of risk whenever we venture into something new. The problem with many people is that they spend too much time worrying about failures, calculating risks and finally got themselves chain up and not able to take any actions to achieve anything they had dreamed about.

That is not the case with the young one. They always willing to try new things and dare to ask for this or that from their parent. They do not have any fear that their request will be rejected. This is not so when they have grown up.

Below are some quotes that might be useful:

“The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live.” - Leo F. Buscaglia

“Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.” - Andre Malraux

“Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever.” - Philip Andrew Adams

“It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult.” - Seneca

Isn't it true that we seldom procrastinate doing things that we enjoy, yet many of us frequently defer or avoid tasks that involve something new? Well, don't holds back any longer; just take all the necessary steps and success could be just around the corner for you!

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Is making mistakes really bad?

Wrong concept about mistakes
In school, at home or at work we are told that it is wrong to make mistakes. We get scolded or punished for any mistakes made and are taught that failures are shameful things. This could be the reason why many people give up on their goals. They are not prepared for the mistakes and failures they will face on their way to what they want.

“The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.” - John Maxwell

Mistakes are inevitable
The fact that the more challenging the goal we would like to achieve, the more frequent and difficult setbacks will be. The larger your ambitions, the more dependent you will be on your ability to overcome and learn from your mistakes.

“Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.” - George Bernard Shaw

Learn from mistakes
You can only learn from a mistake after you admit you’ve made it. Every mistake is a lesson. As soon as you start blaming other people you won't learn any possible lesson.

“A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it, is committing another mistake.” - Confucius

"An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it." - O. A. Battista

Benefit of making mistakes

"Mistakes are stepping stones to success."

“Mistakes are the portals of discovery.” - James Joyce

"The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way." - Dale Carnegie

We learn more lessons when we make mistakes.

I learn a lesson when I sat on my glasses when I place it on my bed. That was indeed an expensive mistake. After that incident I would never place my glasses on my bed.

However, there are indeed some mistakes that are very painful and offer no chance to regret! So be very careful!

Have you learn a great deal from your mistakes?

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Experience or Failure? You determine!

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Sometimes it is alright to make the same mistake more than once. Isn't that's how we learn to walk and to ride a bicycle?

"Failing doesn't make you a failure. Giving up, accepting your failure, refusing to try again, does!" - Richard Exley

“Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.” - Denis Waitley

“Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.” - Oscar Wilde

You may make mistakes, but you are not a failure until you start blaming someone else. Mistakes show us what we need to learn. Mistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit them and willing to learn from them.

“Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.” - Conrad Hilton

"No one has the right to brand you a failure except yourself."

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Quickly learn all you can from others

Who is the wise man?. To succeed early in life, choose the quickest way: Learn all you can from others. We can't learn enough soon enough from our own experience to succeed when young.

Do you know that you learn when you teach? Ensure you have perfected your own effective learning skills. Follow no one but learn from everyone.

The winner does in the beginning what the failure does not in the end - learns from others.

"Learn all you can from others. The school of experience takes so long that the graduates are too old to go to work." - Henry Ford

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Removing barriers to success

"It takes courage to make a fool of yourself." - Charlie Chaplin

Imagine all those who tried to fly before Wilbur and Orville Wright succeeded. They were considered fools by many. But they were right: humans can fly.

“There are no failures - just experiences and your reactions to them.” - Tom Krause

“Life's real failure is when you do not realize how close you were to success when you gave up.”

“Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.” - Roger Von Oech

“Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up.”

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Calm down - you are not a failure

“The only real failure in life is the failure to try.”

"If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure."

“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” - Henry Ford

The greatest secret of all success is patience. And the greatest secret of all failures is impatience. Failure means delay, not defeat.

“There's only one thing that can guarantee our failure, and that's if we quit.”

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, "I have failed three times," and what happens when he says, "I am a failure." - S.I. Hayakawa

"Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet." - Robert Schuller

The cause of most failures is malnutrition of purpose, desire or persistence.

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The Importance of Planning

“He who fails to plan, plans to fail”.

“A good plan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the best way to get there.” - H. Stanley Judd

“In order to plan your future wisely, it is necessary that you understand and appreciate your past.” - Jo Coudert

“You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.” - Zig Ziglar

“Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.” - Tom Landry

“An intelligent plan is the first step to success. The man who plans knows where he is going, knows what progress he is making and has a pretty good idea when he will arrive.” - Basil S. Walsh

"A man with a plan can outstrip ten without one."

“Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.” - Denis Waitley

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The Road To Success

“Success is a journey, not a destination.” - Ben Sweetland

“Success is not permanent. The same is also true of failure.”

“Success is largely a matter of holding on after others have let go”

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” - Winston Churchill

“Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted” - David Bly

“To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you” - Tony Dorsett

“Choice, not circumstances, determines your success.”

“For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.” - Harry F. Banks

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Conquer Fear

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.

"Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fear is only as deep as the mind allows. Never fear shadows... they simply mean there's a light shining somewhere nearby.

"Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have." - Louis E. Boone.

"Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear." - Dale Carnegie.

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The Power of Hope

Start every day with an inspiring thought. "Great hopes make great men." - Thomas Fuller

Hope is one of those things in life you cannot do without. - LeRoy Douglas

Hope is the power that gives us the power to step out and try. "The important thing is not that we can live on hope alone, but that life is not worth living without it." - Harvey Milk

“Where there's life, there's hope.” - Terence. There's hope for every failure, as long as he doesn't blame others for his fate.

“Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.” - Thich Nhat Hanh

“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.” - Albert Einstein

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Habit of making excuses

Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure. - Don Wilder

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. - Benjamin Franklin

An excuse is worse than a lie, for an excuse is a lie, guarded.

The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses. - Napoleon Hill

Ninety-nine percent of failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses. - George W. Carver

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Making a Difference

An Optimist would say it is half full. A Pessimist would say it is half empty.

"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference." - Winston Churchill

You can't do things differently until you see things differently. To recognize opportunity is the difference between success and failure.

The truest different between the man and the boy: The man is aiming at a goal; the boy is drifting aimlessly.

"We all have ability. The difference is how we use it." - Stevie Wonder
"It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference." - Zig Ziglar

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Be Patient

"The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it." - Arnold H. Glasgow

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet - sometimes a fortune builder.

First try seldom wins great success.

No one ever fails. They just quit trying. Many of our greatest men tried and failed so often they decided to quit - but tried once more - and won.

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Never Give Up!

"People who stop trying after one failure are actually being unfair to themselves. They are actually saying that life is made up of only a single event. If you can't make it, that's it!" - Billi Lim

Just like on a journey, we may encounter traffic jams, tire puncture, animals passing, train crossing, rain, strong winds, fallen trees, etc... so too we will meet obstacles along our way to reach our goals.

Failure, like a headache, warns us that something has gone wrong. If we are intelligent we look for the cause and profit by the experience.

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