Can Failure Motivate Us?

“Failure is a lack of success in doing or achieving something, or in a particular area of activity.” Collins Cobuild Dictionary.

Looking at failure as something negative will surely bring you more miseries. However if you perceive failure as something positive, you will be awarded with success. Do not fear failure as what was once said by Dr. J Allan Peterson, “Everyone at one time or another has felt like a complete failure. Many have allowed the fear of failure to destroy them. Actually, fear is far more destructive than failure and in any area of life fear of failure can defeat you before you get started.”

Failures do motivate us to work hard to achieve success. Thomas Watson once said, “Most people make a common mistake by thinking of failure as the enemy of success. You’ve got to put failure to work for you….Go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that’s where you’ll find success – on the far side of failure.”

Failure motivates us to succeed. “We never learn from success, we learn from our failures.” John Naisbitt. Past failures are actually guidepost for future success. “When you fall and get up it does something to you. It is healthful and invigorating to fall many times through life, if you get up each time. It is the getting up that count.” Yoritomo Tashi.

Henry Ford once said, “Failure is the only opportunity to begin again more intelligently.”

“Until you believe in yourself you won’t believe in your failure.” Anonymous.