Failing Means Living
Last Modified: 09/02/2021
Many famous people had actually failed at some point in their lives before reaching success.
- 1Dismissed from drama school with a note that read, "Wasting your time."
- 2She's too shy to put her best foot forward.
- 3Turned down by the Decca recording company who said,...
- 4..."We don't like their sound and guitar music is on the way out."
- 5A failed soldier, farmer, and real estate agent.
- 6At 38 years old, he went to work for his father as a handyman.
- 7Cut from the high school basketball team,...
- 8...he went home, locked himself in his room and cried.
- 9A teacher told him he was too stupid to learn anything...
- 10...and he should go into a field where he might succeed...
- 11...by virtue of his pleasant personality.
- 12Fired from a newspaper because he lacked imagination...
- 13...and had no original ideas.
- 14His fiancee died, he failed in business twice,...
- 15...he had a nervous breakdown and he was defeated in eight elections.
- 16If you've never failed,...
- 17...you've never lived.
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