Failure, we see again and again, isn't final, judgment has a point, and consequences are for correction.

Find me one person who's doing something interesting in the world who hasn't felt the hot sting of a NO. Or a door slammed in the face. Or boos. Or a rejection letter. Or a tepid reception. Or bankruptcy. Or gotten fired.

When you do crash and burn, ask yourself lots of questions about whatever it is that happened: What can you learn here? How will you see things differently moving forward? Why did I do that? leads to, What have I learned? leads to, How will I do it differently in the future?

If you're too weak to handle failure and disappointment, then you're too weak to handle success, which will only end up damaging your life and happiness.

Napoleon Hill had a beautiful spin on the moments when things don't work out the way you planned and unexpected hardship falls on you. Instead of coming from a negative place and looking at those moments as a "failure," he called them "temporary defeats.

If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.

If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.

Don't let the mistakes and disappointments of the past control and direct your future

Motivation doesn't last, neither does shower. That why we need it everyday

Getting knocked down in life is a given; getting up and moving forward is a choice.

Getting caught up in rigid habits is not an option.

If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.