We stumbled across a great quote by Theodore Roosevelt and knew it had to be included here at the Failure Blog. In fact, we have written about his own failure in the past. We have quickly found out that the man was very fond of failing.
Roosevelt is one of the most famous presidents of the United States. Check out the video below for a few facts about the man himself.
The quote that caught our eye is one that truly sums up what we stand behind.
He also had some other thoughts on the process of failing:
“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in that grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.”
And another:
“In the history of the world some of the men who stand high who stand in all but the very highest places are those who have not possessed any wonderful genius in statecraft, war, art, literature in whatever calling; but who have developed within themselves, by long, patient effort, resolutely maintained in spite of repeated failure, the ordinary, everyday, humdrum qualities of courage, of resolution, of proper appreciation of the relative importance of things; of honesty, of truth, of good sense, of unyielding perseverance.”
Roosevelt knew what it meant to fail. He found that failure can actually lead you to success!