If At First You Don’t Win, Don’t Quit

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If at first you don’t win, do not quit. According to W.C. Fields, “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.” Failure will always come to you. You can’t stop failure. The only thing you can do is to embrace it. Don’t limit yourself. Allow yourself to fail. Because without failure, you will never grow. We grow when we fail, when we make mistakes. As Sophia Loren once said, “Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.” Without failure, nothing happens. Without failure, you won’t grow.

“If you are not failing, you are not doing enough.”

And if you want to grow, do not fear failure. Failure is the way, not the obstacle. If you are not failing, you are not doing enough. If you are not failing, you are not learning. If you are not failing, you are not growing. Do not let failure stop you from living your full life. You can do anything. You can create anything. You can be anything. But you must work really hard to make it happen.

“Without failure, there can be no growth.”

Talk is cheap. Actions are expensive. Do not be a talker, be a doer. Talkers fear failures. But doers welcome failures. They learn from their mistakes.

And without failure, there can be no growth, there can be no success, and there can be no happiness.

Your Value Doesn’t Depend On Others

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Your value doesn’t depend on others. Your value depends on you. Your self-worth depends on you.

You are responsible for your life, for what you think, for what you accept in your mind,

for what you are doing right now.

Do not depend on anyone to make you happy, to fulfill all your needs, to love you.

You can give it to yourself. You can do it for yourself.

Because what you cannot do for yourself, no one can do for you. What you cannot do for yourself, don’t expect it from other people.

No one can give you what you cannot give to yourself. No one can really make you happy.

So if you want to be happy, make yourself happy.

If you cannot make yourself happy, then who?

If you can’t love yourself, then who?

If you don’t have the courage to change what is not working for you in your life, who then?