"If You Never Failed, Your Never Lived..."

yeah,thats true we always learn from our mistakes.sometimes we failed or losing confidence but still we wont give up..there is always hope..

Yeppers and along with that goes "If you haven't annoyed anybody, you haven't done anything." Most of the very successful people have failed many times, I think, which is why they "don't put all their eggs in one basket."

Very interesting discussion! I can see how being told such things could discourage a person and keep them from reaching their potential. Actually most things are simply a matter of personal opinion. I work as a cashier. I'll admit it...I'm ditzy and my fingers are clumsy on the register. I make mistakes...fix most of them and sometimes...I have no clue to what I've screwed up. My former boss was hyper critical. I would have quit so many time but I needed the job...had kids to raise. Got a new boss that tells me that I'm his best cashier because I know how to treat customers and I'm honest and we all make mistakes. He says my former boss destroyed me. If my drawer is over or under, I get so so upset. He has checked the register tape and videos enough to know that when it happens it is not because I'm taking the money wrong but typing in something wrong or more often than not...just tired at the end of the night and adding things wrong and not off at all.

Nice information there! We all know that failure is a stepping stone to success. My middle name is 'tenacity'. I never give up anything easily. I take it as a challenge and I love challenges. Failures contribute to such challenges. I have no formal education in computers I just had only a couple of sessions with a friend of mine and then on I tried to understand computers by going through the good old 'windows for dummies'. I lost a hard disk in the bargain but today I am computer savvy - may be smarter than the youngsters I might come across here!

I agree with you. At times we definitely need to remind ourselves of this. Thanks for the encouragement. We have to keep trying and reaching for our goals and things we want to accomplish. If we don't try we will never know or have the opportunity to become what we want.

very well said yeah i agree if you never failed you wont learn and every time you failed teach you how to become better in life

Yeah... I've failed really hard a couple of times and it crushed me, but I'm an eternal optimist. I always think I will do better next time. So far, so good. "It takes the wind out of your sails when you fail, but the wind comes back if you're facing the right direction."

GOt that right just never give up an always learning!

i had a teacher who told me once when i had made a mistake she stated that is why we have erasers.... i really hate to make mistakes but then i realize it is a learning experience. it just wasn't suppose to be in alot of situations. this is a part of life. when we fail, we grow. we are able to do what is right and have learned in the process.

Galatians 6:9 (NLT) 9 So let’s not get tired of doing what is good. At just the right time we will reap a harvest of blessing if we don’t give up. When I get discouraged or fail at something or someone tries to crush my spirit, I always think of this verse. I think it was Edison that when he tried something many times and was told that his project was a failure, replied that he wasn't giving up as he just learned many ways that were incorrect and he continued and he succeeded. As you stated, failure is part of learning how to succeed. We learn what is wrong and keep going till we get it right. We are only a failure when we give up. God tells us not to give up and we will succeed! If God says we can, why should we allow anyone else tell us we can't. Who has always told us the truth?

I think these things are the things that make us stronger if we rise above them. It is hard when someone makes you feel less or bad but we are all worth more than people makes us feel sometimes. Great discussion!

I really don't know that it is fair to say that you have never lived if you've never failed. However, I do think that it is fair to say that in order to become a great success in your life, there have to be endeavors that you have in your life that you have failed in. I think that the best ideas that people ever have in their lives come after they've faced the greatest failures in their lives.

Failure motivates us to become stronger. The quote on your discussion title would really go well with "Whatever doesn't kill you will make you stronger." Maybe Walt Disney used that failure to fuel his motivation that's why he's very successful today. His company is earning billions now and I bet that well-earned money came from a lot of failures learned effectively.

Failures if accepted as challenges are only stepping stones for success. It is only those who quits and surrenders to the challenges of failures that will never see the light at the end of the tunnel. All the best mangtony.