Favorite Inspirational Quotes

Most great people have achieved their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Napoleon Hill

This is an inspirational quote because it tells me to keep going and I will find success.  Even after a truly major screw-up, you can find a major success.

This quote also tells me that failure happens.  It even happens to great people.  And those great people can produce some really royal screw-ups.

Maybe that, too, is part of what makes them great.  They take big risks for big rewards.  Sometimes they fail in a really big way.  But they keep going even through the failures.

With determination, focus, and action, they eventually succeed in a large way.  The lessons I take then are to keep going, to keep taking action and to not be afraid of failure or risk.

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