FAILURES ARE THE PILLARS OF SUCCESS

The proverb means that success comes through failures; it is meant as an encouragement to those who fail in life, we have got to try again and again in the face of failures, if we fail once and try again, we gain experience that we help us in our second effort. By making use of these experiences we will grow wiser and feel surer and this is the foundation of success, if we build upon the foundation of wisdom and self –confidence, our success will be durable.

But if anyone takes this proverb literally, and concludes that we have to fail in order to succeed, that the more we fail the surer will be our success, he is utterly mistaken. The proverb means no such thing, every effort should be made not to fail, but no failure should have a depressing effect on us rather they should be incentives.

In order to make our failures the pillars of success, it is better to be aware of the causes of failures; the fool often fails because he thinks that success is easy. We must have confidence but not conceit, for confidence gives us strength and conceit makes us easy going, It is only when failures bring out the best in us that they come to have an important in our life, failures must be a challenge to us to do our best; we must meet failures in order to overcome them and succeed, in this view we must see failures as unpleasant accident that point the way to success.

To do this, we need to show certain mental qualities, first; we must be persevering, we must try again and again, we must be able to rise on the stepping –stones of our dead selves to something greater than what we are today; secondly, we must have courage, that is the will to conquer all obstacles on our way to success; there must not be any thought of surrender.
We must learn not to know when we are defeated, once we admit defeat, we are no longer what we were but something far less.thirdly, we must be optimist; we must have confidence, in spite of failures, we will succeed; probably if not today, tomorrow or the day after, if not in this generation, the next generation might be able to achieve it.

We must be able to look back on our failures with pride; if we fail let us feel that we have failed greatly, then we will look forward with hope and believe that we shall succeed in spite of failures and this is the proper attitude to failures one should take up. Failures can be depressing and disheartening, when honest efforts end in failure and it is difficult to keep up one’s spirit but remember that it is better to have tried and failed than not to have tried at all.

I know I will face tribulations in order to succeed, I know will face condemnation in order to manage victory; these are the golden statement one should always keep in mind whenever you are faced with any unfavourable condition(s)