Sunday, May 9th, 2010
Failure
Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it’s not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won’t. it’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.
- Obama
Failure is unpleasant. Failing at the same thing multiple times is even more unpleasant. But don’t let shame move you into inaction. I like the quote because success takes patience, commitment and lots of failure. Successful people have failed thousands of times, you just never hear about it.
But persevere and God will make you complete.
TweetPerseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything… Blessed is the man who perseveres under trial, because when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love him.
- James 1:4,12