Friday 12 February 2016

It ain't failure unless you give up....

Sometimes it feels like everything you touch goes bad, and you wonder if you're in fact not a failure. It happens to people all the time, just as it happened to those who today history celebrates best. What kept these people going was not because their potentials were obvious, but because their determination was not one that gives in.

I was told that Stephen King that today is one of the best-selling authors of all time had his first book rejected 30 times. I was told he gave up and threw it in the trash. But with believe, his wife took it out and encouraged him to resubmit it, and then the rest became the making of the man. So, starting out a certain endeavour with the opposite of success may not necessarily be a failure. Sometimes it is a stepping stone towards success, but you gotta believe.

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