Don't be afraid to fail!

I would love to be the perfect teacher, sister, daughter, companion, and friend but sometimes (more often than not) I fall short. Failure is difficult and I think we all feel inadequate sometimes. Next time you do, remember this:

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You fell down the first time you tried to walk. But, you got up.

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You almost drowned the first time you tried to swim, didn't you?

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Did you hit the ball the first time you swung a bat?

Babe Ruth struck out 1,330 times, but he also hit 714 home runs.

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Viewing Fred Astaire’s 1928 screen test, a producer noted: “Can't act. Can't sing. Balding. Can dance a little.”

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R.H. Macy failed seven times before his store in New York caught on.

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Winston Churchill failed the 6th grade.

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Before joining NBA, Michael Jordan was cut from high school basketball team because of his “lack of skill”.

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When Albert Einstein was young, his parents thought he was mentally retarded. His grades in school were so poor that a teacher asked him to quit, saying, “Einstein, you will never amount to anything!”

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English novelist John Creasey got 753 rejection slips before he published 564 books.

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Henry Ford’s first two automobile companies failed.

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Abraham Lincoln had 12 major failures before he was elected the 16th President of the United States of America.

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Thomas Edison had to experiment 700 times before he had a successful experiment with the light bulb. He said,

..."I have not failed 700 times. I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work."

Don't worry about failure.

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Worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try.

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