Quote & Thought for the Day -- Wednesday, 13 Aug '08

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

--Thomas A. Edison

My Thoughts:

In my childhood, I have read this story of the King and the Spider. In this story the King sees the spider trying to build the web but it fails a couple of times. The king says to the Spider that she should stop trying to build the web. The spider refuses and finally she succeeds in building the web. Looking at this the King realizes his mistake and acknowledges the Spider for her Determination (you can read the whole story here).

The moral of the story is never give-up. We usually get frustrated when things don’t work. We get annoyed when we find things which are not the way we wanted. But all we have to remember is that most of the times we would end up at solutions that don’t work. But that’s not waste your effort if you had learned something from it. That’s how life teaches us a lesson. All we have to do is Try-Try till we succeed.

What do you say about this?

Fail in Honor

Quote & Thought for the Day -- Friday, 20 Feb '09

“Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.”

--Sophocles

My Thoughts:
This particular quote is very simple, just one liner, but that very complex to explain. I would not preach this; as this very thing of honesty is in-built in all of us.

All you have to do is activate this in-built feature in you and morally understand that it is honor that is more important than success. There are many avenues where you could earn success. But if honor is lost, it’s hard to earn it back.

Fail better

Quote & Thought for the Day -- Thursday, 15 Jan '09

"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."

--Herman Melville

My Thoughts:
There are lots of thoughts that are striking as I type this post. But you know what…..this quote is worth giving a try than to just keep reading it.

I would try till I come up with something innovative or maybe something that’s my own. And if I would fail, I would be happy because I didn’t copy someone.

Greatest glory

Quote & Thought for the Day -- Friday, 21 Nov '08

 “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in getting up every time we do.”

--Confucius

My Thoughts:
Success is always relative. To you, reading this Blog can be a normal stuff, but for a visually impaired person it could be a great feat.

So to be consistently not failing, in other words, always being a winner can be your regular job and that’s not a real achievement. Your glory is manifested when you actually fail, but don’t loose courage till you achieve success. And this is how you see the contrast.

Finite disappointment, finite hope

Quote & Thought for the Day -- Thursday, 13 Nov '08

"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."

--Martin Luther King, Jr.

My Thoughts:
A great motivational gem from one of the greatest leader the world has seen. When we don't achieve what we had thought, we get disappointed. But let me tell you, this disappointment has a full-stop somewhere.

All you have to do is that accept this as a finite failure and start moving towards you goal. Because hope is something which has no full-stop.

Success and failure

Quote & Thought for the Day -- Sunday, 2 Nov '08

“Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.”

--Mike Ditka

My Thoughts:
Success is a timely event that last for a span of time. Achieving Success doesn’t mean that you would be always at the top.

The other way round is for failure; if you fail, it doesn’t mean that you are a looser. But the only condition for this is that you have to learn from your failure.

And it worked…....!

Quote & Thought for the Day -- Saturday, 11 Oct '08

“The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything - and it works.”

--William Strong

My Thoughts:
In my previous post, I had said that failure is only a station on the way to success. But most people take that as their destination.

So the next time you fail, think that you have only moved to the next station still closer to success.

Don’t stop Trying

Quote & Thought for the Day -- Thursday, 9 Oct '08

“I can accept failure, but I can't accept not trying.”

--Michael Jordan

My Thoughts:
Failure is only a station on the journey towards success. But most people think that they have reached their destination and leave the train of trying.

I have been telling this in my previous posts that it is not a problem if you fail. But the most important thing is that you are trying.

Bouncing high!

Quote & Thought for the Day -- Sunday, 24 Aug '08

"Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom."

--General George S. Patton

My Thoughts:
Many a times we fail in doing something. At few occasions we fail very badly. But I believe that failure is just a station in between you and your destination (Success).

But if you take the failure as your destination, you would never reach success (your actual destination). All we have to do is, be patient and bounce back from the failure and reach success.

So are you ready to bounce back….?