"There is no FAILURE. That which looks to be failure is usually nothing but temporary defeat. Make sure that you do not accept it as PERMANENT!" - Napoleon Hill
This Napoleon Hill sets our mindset for this article. Usually people connect failure with being unsuccessful, and if you check the antonym for success indeed it is failure.
This Napoleon Hill sets our mindset for this article. Usually people connect failure with being unsuccessful, and if you check the antonym for success indeed it is failure.
Study some of the most famous people success stories, you'll find out that before success there was huge failure, and that those same failed attempts were the starting point of something that led them to become hugely successful.
The reason behind it, is that they didn't saw failure as the end of their attempts to being successful. They saw failure as a temporary defeat, that sooner of later (if they didn't stop doing what they were supposed to and got better with the process) they would be successful in the long run.
We're talking about people who failed before they succeed, proving that failure is not final. But also, don't forget that success is not permanent too, some of these people actually reached success and tasted failure after it. But they didn't get discouraged by their failure stories and reached success again!
Still not convinced?, To motivate you to succeed when the thought of failure strikes you, we've selected 63 success stories of famous people who met failure but saw it as temporary defeat, didn't stopped, and went on to succeed:
Still not convinced?, To motivate you to succeed when the thought of failure strikes you, we've selected 63 success stories of famous people who met failure but saw it as temporary defeat, didn't stopped, and went on to succeed:
Success Stories From Famous People Who Failed Before Succeeding
1. Sylvester Stallone
2. Galileo Galilei
3. Michael J. Fox
4. Henry Ford
5. Steve Jobs
6. Steven Spielberg
7. U2
8. Soichiro Honda
9. Tim Allen
10. Jim Rohn
11. Sir Isaac Newton
12. Howard Stern
13. Thomas Edison
14. Madonna
15. Albert Einstein
16. Martin Luther King Jr.
17. Sidney Poitier
18. Stan Smith
19. Fred Astaire
20. Winston Churchill
21. Tony Robbins
22. Charles Darwin
23. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
24. Harrison Ford
25. Will Smith
26. Larry King
27. Kanye West
28. Akio Morita
29. Katharine Hepburn
30. Bill Gates
31. Babe Ruth
32. Bruno Mars
33. Jerry Seinfeld
34. Les Brown
35. Charlie Chaplin
36. George Lucas
37. Marilyn Monroe
38. Katy Perry
39. Oliver Stone
40. Mahatma Gandhi
41. Charles Schultz
42. Clint Eastwood
43. Monet
44. Barbara Corcoran
45. Michael Jordan
46. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
47. Elvis Presley
48. Conan O'Brien
49. The Beatles
50. Jim Carrey
51. Mark Cuban
52. Lauryn Hill
53. Maria Callas
54. Mariah Carey
55. Socrates
56. The Wright Brothers
57. Jack Canfield
58. Ludwig Van Beethoven
63. Jay-Z
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