For me, the path of failure exceeded by far the joys of success. My plight was hopeless.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I've always had to have some kind of failure before I was successful.
For me, at least, all of my career goals, all of my focus, everything just shifted and the importance was my children, and that's where all the joy came from as well.
My failures may be my greatest successes. It is in failure that I have often drawn closer to God, learn to depend more on Him than myself, gained self-knowledge, and seen things in their right perspective.
After my spectacular failures, I could not be satisfied with an ordinary success.
My success was due to good luck, hard work, and support and advice from friends and mentors. But most importantly, it depended on me to keep trying after I had failed.
I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
I've always embraced failure as a noble pursuit. It allows you to be anti whatever anyone wants you to be, and to break all the rules.
Anything I wanted to do and achieve has not been influential in my life, but my failures have.
I was brought up to believe that there is no such thing as failure as long as I'm trying my best. So I've had a 'blood, guts and glory' approach through my whole life.
For me, half the joy of achieving has been the struggle and the fight, the pitting myself against the world and all its competition - and winning.