What makes someone a failure?
By mark98
@mark98 (567)
China
February 15, 2011 9:43pm CST
No one is a failure, unless they allow themselves to become a failure. They also cannot be failures, unless they themselves see themselves as failures. People who are unwilling to learn from mistakes, who are stuck on the past, who are miserable where they are in life often believe they are failures at everything, mostly because they lack any confidence gained from encouragement.
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@EdnaReyes (2622)
• Philippines
16 Feb 11
Submission to failure is a failure itself. If one has the ability to get back on his feet, his ability to right wrong, and accept defeat, he can never be a failure. It's a matter of how one judge his actions and doings. Thinking that he can always succeed, there's no way for him not to overcome defeat and claim victory and not failure!
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@Tonton01 (235)
• Philippines
16 Feb 11
It is true that no person is a failure. Failure is only relative to one's perception within one's life. To break free from the aura of failure, you have to learn how to be grateful for what you have, be willing to change for the better.
And even if people encourage them to be successes, the only time they will succeed is if they change and decide to believe that they are successes.
@saintjudas (49)
• India
16 Feb 11
We should not start worrying: "Where will success in life come from?" To get success, we should have faith in God. The Almighty Lord knows what we require, and He will provide us with all these things.
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@buggles64 (2709)
• United States
16 Feb 11
Of course, I agree with this statement. We all have the potential to be the best we can be, but I also believe that sometimes we have to fail first before we can succeed, but just because we have failed doesn't mean we should give up. I always like to use Benjamin Franklin and the invention of electricity as an example, because he didn't succeed the first time he tried to conduct electricity..it took him how many several thousands of tries? But he did it, he was successful...he learned from his past mistakes, which made him a success...he kept trying!!
@saintjudas (49)
• India
16 Feb 11
I would like to add that failure should not frustrate us. Failure gives an opportunity to improve ourself. The truth is that our mistakes and failures are stepping stones to success.
