During the Second World War, author and correspondent, Eric Sevareid was forced to parachute from a damaged transport plane into the jungle on the Burma-India border. Sevareid and the other survivors knew that any rescue attempt would take several weeks so they had no option but to start walking. They faced a daunting task – tropical heat, monsoon rains and a painful, 140 mile march over mountainous terrain. The torturous route to civilised India seemed almost impassable. The dream of salvation almost impossible
Thomas Edison Quotes – Failure IS the Road to Success! Thomas Edison is the reason we have some of the world’s greatest inventions . Without him failing 10,000 times we would have never had the light bulb and all the technology that came with it. He learned his relentless work ethic from a tough childhood but used it to succeed in his adult life. While most people fear failure, Thomas Edison and other successful people learned to love failing. They understand that failure is part of the process to be successful at anything. Use these Thomas Edison quotes to change your definition of failure and find success in your life. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” — Thomas Edison Would you have kept going at any of your goals if you “failed” 9,999 times? Most people wouldn’t. But if you want to become great at anything you have to learn to keep going. You need to learn to frame the word “ failure .” Because of school, it gets a negative conn...
You can be hindered from making progress if you ignore your problems. Could you be letting little challenges grow into huge obstacles by not dealing with them? When faced with unpleasant situations it is tempting to ignore them and not deal with them. The path of least resistance is an attractive one and the effort required to deal with the problem sometimes seems too immense. At times it’s not so much that the problem is big but that it requires us to admit something about ourselves or others that we just don’t want to face. The trouble is “You won't find a solution by saying there is no problem.”
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