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Profiting By Failure

DEFEAT, LIKE A HEADACHE, WARNS US THAT SOMETHING HAS GONE WRONG. IF WE ARE INTELLIGENT WE LOOK FOR THE CAUSE AND PROFIT BY THE EXPERIENCE. 
-Napoleon Hill 

Defeat often talks to us in a language that we do not understand. If this were not true, we would not make the same mistakes over and over again without profiting by the lessons that they might teach us. If it were not true, we would observe more closely the mistakes that other people make and we would profit by them also.

DO NOT LOOK WHERE YOU FELL, BUT WHERE YOU SLIPPED.
 -African proverb 

Every defeat teaches a needed lesson to those who are ready and willing to be taught. 

AN OPTIMIST SEES AN OPPORTUNITY IN EVERY CALAMITY; A PESSIMIST SEES A CALAMITY IN EVERY OPPORTUNITY. 
-Winston Churchill

We human beings often give ourselves credit to which we are not entitled. I fear we too often assume credit for wisdom and for results that accrue from causes over which we have absolutely no control. 

At least refrain from accepting any defeat as failure until you have had time to analyze the final result.

ONLY THOSE WHO DARE TO FAIL GREATLY CAN EVER ACHIEVE GREATLY. 
-Robert Francis Kennedy  

Self-approval is a dangerous state of mind. This is a great truth that many people do not learn for the better part of a lifetime. Some never do learn it. But those who do are those who finally begin to understand the strange language of defeat.

I am convinced that we have few, if any, more dangerous enemies to combat than that of self-approval.

THE PROBLEMS OF VICTORY ARE MORE AGREEABLE THAN THOSE OF DEFEAT, BUT THEY ARE NO LESS DIFFICULT. 
-Winston Churchill 

Some wise philosopher has said that we never learn very much about a given subject until we begin teaching it to others.

THERE IS SOMETHING GOOD IN ALL SEEMING FAILURES. YOU ARE NOT TO SEE THAT NOW. TIME WILL REVEAL IT. BE PATIENT. 
-Sri Swami Sivananda 

Edward Bok has truthfully stated, poverty is the richest experience that can come to a person - an experience which, however, he advises one to get away from as quickly as possible. 

Finding the work that one likes best and for which one is best suited is also very much like finding the person whom one loves best.

There is no rule by which to make this search, but when the right niche is found, one immediately recognizes it.

TELL EVERYONE WHAT YOU WANT TO DO AND SOMEONE WILL WANT TO HELP YOU DO IT.
 -W. Clement Stone 

"Whatsoever a man sow, that shall he also reap."

THERE ARE TWELVE GOOD REASONS FOR FAILURE. THE FIRST ONE IS THE AVOWED INTENTION OF DOING NO MORE THAN ONE IS PAID TO DO, AND THE PERSON WHO MAKES THIS AVOWAL MAY SEE THE OTHER ELEVEN BY STEPPING BEFORE A LOOKING-GLASS. 
-Napoleon Hill

I believe most earnestly that anything a man acquires from his fellow man, without the full consent of the person from whom it is acquired, will eventually burn a hole in his pocket, or blister the palms of his hands, to say nothing of gnawing at his conscience until his heart aches with regret. 

The best way to realize that ambition is to perform more work than you are paid to perform. You can get along with but little schooling; you can get along with but little capital; you can overcome almost any obstacle with which you are confronted, if you are honestly and earnestly willing to do the best work of which you are capable, regardless of the amount of money you receive for it.

PROSPERITY IS ONLY AN INSTRUMENT TO BE USED, NOT A DEITY TO BE WORSHIPED.
 -Calvin Coolidge 

SUCCESS IS GOING FROM FAILURE TO FAILURE WITHOUT LOSING YOUR ENTHUSIASM. 
-Winston Churchill 

Defeat is a destructive force only when it is accepted as failure. When accepted as teaching some needed lesson it is always a blessing. 

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