Favorite Inspirational Quotes

Defeat is a state of mind.  No one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as reality.  To me, defeat in anything is merely temporary, and its punishment is but an urge for me to greater effort to achieve my goal.  Defeat simply tells me that something is wrong in my doing; it is a path leading to success and truth.

Bruce Lee

This quote goes along with all those inspirational quotes about failure.  Failure or defeat only really occurs when you fall down and don’t get back up to work toward the goal again.  I think we need another word for getting results that didn’t turn out the way we wanted.

We use failure with two different meanings just as he used defeat in this quote.  There is the short term failure or defeat because we failed to achieve the desired end of the action.  As he said in the above quote, it simply lets us know something in wrong in what or how we are doing.

But it’s not really failure as long as we figure out what went wrong and work once again to get to our desired goal.  The method of reaching the goal may have to change due to the failures we get in the actions we take, but as long as we don’t stop trying to reach the true goal, we haven’t failed.

See what I mean by saying we need a new word?

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