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“We mount to heaven mostly on the ruins of our cherished schemes, finding our failures were successes.” him our failures are the steps through which we rise to heaven; our failures are our stepping stones. Success is not possible without failures. There is no single example in the entire human race that is an exception. All great personalities and personages, who have left indelible prints of their lives on the sands of eternity, are the men and women who converted their failures into success. The list is endless: Albert Einstein, Charles Darwin, Isaac Newton, Socrates, Thomas Edison, Abraham Lincoln, Charlie Chaplin, Henry Ford, Bill Gates, Walt Disney, Helen Keller, Mahatma Gandhi, and so on.
All the above mentioned names share one common thing; they were not quitters; they were winners. They knew the secret to be successful. They faced myriads of obstacles and hindrances without compromising with their vision and mission. They were ready to face as many failures as were required in order to be successful. I will only quote one or two life examples from the list. Helen Keller, who lost her hearing and seeing power due to some fatal disease in her early childhood, faced the darkness of failure on almost every step of her life! Did she give up? No! She diligently sowed the seeds of her hopped and aspirations in the dark soil of failures! What a miracle woman she turned out to be! She is one of the most successful women the world has ever known! Not only she learnt to speak; she earned a degree for herself from Radcliffe College. She became a famous figure of inspiration and perseverance. She bettered and inspired many lives! Abraham Lincoln failed approximately 12 times before he was elected the president of America. The biographies or autobiographies of all successful men or women remind us of the obvious fact that failures are inescapable and unavoidable part of the adventure we call success. The one great lesson to be learnt from these amazing personages is the lesson of perseverance, determination and acceptance of failures without losing heart and the sight of our goal. I would like to conclude with the fallowing poem:
‘When the things go wrong, as they sometime will,
When the road you are trudging seems all uphill,
When the funds are low and the debts are high,
And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit-
Rest if you must, but don’t you quit.
Life is queer with its twists and turns,
As every one of us sometimes learns,
And many a fellow turns of us sometime learns,
When he might have urn had he stuck it out.
Don’t give up thought the place seems slow-
You may succeed with another blow.
Often the goal is nearer than
It seems to a faint and faltering man;
Often the struggler has given up
When he might have captured the victor’s cup;
And he learned too late when the night came down,
How close he was to the golden crown.
Success is a failure turned inside out-
The silver tint in the clouds of doubt,
And you never can tell how close you are,
It might be near when it seems afar;