Failure is something that many people can’t accept these days. Due to this they are constantly afraid to to do things. If they don’t try it how will they find out whether or not they are good at it. I think this advice is very helpful in helping people realize that they have potential. You don’t what you can do until you try. Otherwise, you will be just as useless as you think you are if you failed. No one can make fun of you if you are doing something for the first time and failed because you are just a beginner. Every great person was a beginner once. This statement helps you to realize that. When it says “Be afraid NOT to try.”, I thought that made perfect sense. If you don’t try anything, then you will not know what your talents are. That is when people will make fun of you and call you useless. That is what you should be afraid of. If you actually try something, there is a chance you might like it and you might even win. You need to take that chance or live without knowing what you can do. You shouldn’t have the fear of losing and that is what the statement is saying. Even if you did fail, that would just be an opportunity for you to learn. For example, in 4th grade you are taking a little quiz to see if you know your multiplication facts by heart. You accidentally say that 6 times 9 is 56 rather than 54. This is a moment that you can learn from. From that moment forward you can start practicing 6 times 9 a bit more. This is what is so great about mistakes. If no one ever accidentally burned themselves than none of us would have known fire is dangerous. This message is really important to people. The reason so many people are committing suicide is that they sad that they failed. They could not handle it. They took it badly instead of learning from it. If you don’t try the same thing might happen to you. This is what makes this message so heartfelt. If you are taking a test and you come across a question you don’t know this inspires me to just try and pick one rather than pick nothing. It also inspires me to study harder on my next test. The message brings people to realize what to do when the times are tough. It is these kind of messages that we are lacking these days. If we heard things like these more often there won’t be things like war and hatred. There won’t be terrorist attacks in this world. So many people are obsessed with power, money and fame that they are forgetting the important things like helping others by giving advice like this. This statement is an example of what people nowadays need to hear. “Don't Be Afraid to Fail. Be afraid NOT to try.” mens to me that it is better to do something and fail rather than do nothing whatsoever.
To me, "Don't Be Afraid to Fail. Be afraid NOT to try" means you should never be afraid to try your hardest even though you do not get it, you should be afraid not to try because you never know if you could get the answer correct. Failing is something that some people look down at. If you are one of those people, you should at least try so you would not 100% fail the task or answering the question. Also, it is a okay if you fail because everyone fails something, and when you fail you learn something important that can be a life lesson for you. Many people have done many bad things to themselves when they fail but instead of doing that, why don't they just at least try right? Instead of doing something so simple, they just made it harder for themselves. Your failures can and might inspire your heart to do something more important for you and others. You have to look are failures two different perspectives. One perspective is when you hate yourself so much and you punish yourself for doing that failure. Another perspective is when think about your failure again and see how it can help you and inspire you. Some examples of failures is: failing a test or quiz, failing how to understand the meaning of books, failing knowing how to open a lock, failing your handwriting (how neat it is), etc. All these failures can make you change yourself, who you are, your personality, and much more. I feel like more people in this world or even all the people of the universe should hear these two simple sentences. These two simple sentences can stop murders, suicide, suicial thoughts, and much more. Failure is something that people cannot accept or think about. Due to this, they can be always afraid to do things and try new things. If people do not at least try, how will they ever find out if they are good at it and have potential in themselves? If you fail and this is your first time doing it (the task), nobody should make fun of you or tease you because you are just a beginner. Some might think that these ten simple words means nothing, while others think it has a strong meaning and message. If you are one of those people who thinks that these ten words mean nothing, keep on rereading them over and over to yourself until you understand it. For example, when I just started PEG. I thought that I would flunk it and fail and the worst grades I could possibly get. Some part of me wanted to try harder and some part of me just wants to give up because of how much work we had compared to my average school homework. But once I tried, I got used to the amount of homework we had, how quickly we should know and remember things, how much effort we should put in all our work, how heavy my backpack was, and much more. But at the end of the year, I though about how this program made me a better person and a fast learner.
This quote is really meaningful. It could follow you for many years if you decide to take the advice. Not only is it helpful to young kids but it is useful to adults as well. “Don’t be afraid to fail. Be afraid NOT to try.” In my opinion, this is the best advice a guardian or teacher can give you. This quote is telling you that as long as you try, you did well enough to satisfy your thinking. If you don’t try at all, then how would you know your limits? You are not proving anything to anyone if you just give up so easily. I feel like failure is such a problem these days. So many people are so afraid to get a bad grade, they’d rather not try at all and get a good grade than try and maybe fail. That is the fear of failing. I sometimes have that thinking as well. I am afraid of trying something in concern of getting a bad grade. I also know many people who give up on trying for the sake of keeping their average high in school. Though I agree that achieving good grades is important, I also believe that it doesn’t mean we should stop trying and simply give up. That in my opinion it is useless to give up. It won’t help you in life ever! You will hurt yourself more by not trying than getting a bad grade because you know you could have done better. My math teacher Mrs. Campbell always encourages us to do the best we can. Even if you don’t know it, take an educated guess because guess what? You might surprise yourself and get it right. This reminds of last week in G and T. Our group was losing by 300 points in jeopardy. We decided to go for the 500 point question to raise our score to be first. We got a question in which we didn’t know the definition. We didn’t give up though. We took the pre-fix and knew it had something to do with temperature. Our educated guess that maybe that part of the brain was that the part that controlled the temperature of your body. We got it right. Giving up wouldn’t have given us the point. We tried and succeeded. You can’t be afraid to fail. We weren’t afraid. We took the chances of losing 500 points which motivated us even more to do better. Our group was more motivated to do better when we knew we had more at risk. We got the answer correct and got the lead. We didn’t give up. No one in life should be afraid to fail. You should defiantly be afraid to not try though. You should never be discouraged by the risk of getting a bad grade or failing any project. This is my opinion on the quote “Don’t be afraid to fail. Be afraid NOT to try” This is what I think it means. You should never be feared by a simple thing in failing and not try to do something you might be good at. Face your fears. Don’t give up!
“Don't Be Afraid to Fail. Be afraid NOT to try.” This quote can mean a lot of different things to a lot of different people. Failure is something that people tend to think is something bad, something that you should be afraid of, but no, that’s not the case. Failure is a beautiful, amazing thing that can let you do things that you could never have imagined to do without it. Without failure there could never be any success, without failure nothing important could be achieved. Even if you fail you still tried your hardest to succeed, but without trying you didn’t try, you didn’t give a second of your time to try to accomplish what you wanted. Without Edison’s 10,000 attempts of failure we wouldn’t have had the opportunity to have a lightbulb in your room right now. As Edison said in this quote, “I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.” He never gave up, at least he tried to do something and he did, his failure allowed him to become a world-renowned inventor. Without the Wright Brothers crashing into a barn we wouldn’t have had airplanes. No matter how bad or how hard you think you failed, you are wrong, giving up is the only true way to fail is to give up. Giving up does nothing for you, it doesn’t help, it doesn’t make you rich, it doesn’t even give you a Subway gift card. Getting back up again, though, that’s a completely different story, that can can get you rich, that can get you friends, it can even get you a Subway gift card. If you don’t even try to do something remarkable for yourself then what is the point? Everyone tries to avoid failure, they fear it like a monster lurking in the shadows. But think of success like a rainbow in a beautiful happy day. Way too many people misinterpret this act because of what they hear about it. It is a stereotype about a word, no different than gender or ethnicity, failure is a beautiful thing that is as or probably even more important than success. Rather than doing something wrong, think of failure as a stepping stone in a huge lake, it helps you a lot more than you think to reach your goal, to succeed. This new point of view will change your opinion on failure completely. Now I bet you will actually try to mess up on your next math test, but that is not how it works. If you fail purposely, then that’s just dumb, what do you accomplish by getting something wrong on purpose. You learned nothing from doing that. You have to learn from past mistakes and experiences, and fails. Messing yourself up on purpose is just wrong, it is both a dumb and a bad thing to do. Don’t try to hurt yourself while thinking it is the right thing to do. As Chris Bradford said, “There is no failure except in no longer trying.” No matter what you think, always remember that it is better to try something new but fail rather than do nothing at all.
When I first saw this quote my mind was bamboozled. No one today even words anything close to this poem which makes this poem very confusing. I analyzed the poem for a very long time. Soon this made way more sense to me. I realized I am practically the opposite, I am afraid of failing but I am not afraid of trying. This surprises me very much as I am usually the same as most people in terms of thinking at least. This poem really makes me think about how I am compared to everyone else or in this specific case the author. I really wonder what was going through the authors head when making this quote and what inspired the author to make it. If I was the author what I think what inspired me was something that I recently failed at or a fail that has been spiraling through my head that I had to express in some way or another. One fail that happened to me was when I was typing. I had to type two pages for an essay on word and I forgot to save. At that time I was using a lot of Google Classroom so I didn’t save. This devastated me and I definitely didn’t want to type the essay again but I was still forced to by my parents. I think this was the best example in my life to fit the opposite of this poem. I was afraid to fail and I was not afraid to not try. Even I am surprised at myself. This is one of the first times in my life I had this feeling. I do understand what the author is trying to say. Their saying that it is fine if you fail and it won’t change who you internally are. If you do not try it will come back to haunt you. It is better trying something and failing than not trying at all. This quote inspires me so much. It opens up a whole new world where everyone thinks the positive and not the negative. Everything looks new to me, the quote changed part of who I was and made a new me, probably a better me. This shows me to learn from your failures and it is okay if you fail again because you will learn from those fails. I have done this so many times in my life. This shows me that I sometimes think different than other people. Most normal people think that failures are “bad”, which I do to, but this changed me to think that failures do “good” for you. This changed me completely. I feel like I am being transformed from a failure to a better person. I think that anyone who reads this poem will also be metamorphasized into a new person. His message he wants to send is also very clear. This is my reaction to this wonderful, amazing, and fabulous quote and I wonder what all of you think about this.
For most people failure is the lack of success, but if you really think about it failure means you are open to new ideas. Let’s say you fail at gymnastics because you can’t do a backflip. At least now you know you should try something else as your passion. Failure could also make you want to do better. Even though you think you failed at gymnastics it might have not been that bad. You could keep trying and trying to do better and eventually you will know how to do flips. It all matters how you look at things. If you look at your as something that is holding you back you will probably never get better at that certain thing. If you look at failure as something to push you forward you will try and try and eventually succeed. In the quote it says “Don’t be afraid to fail.” This doesn't mean that you should want to fail, but if you do don’t think of it as the worst thing in the world. Make it a good thing and learn from it. Failure tells you that you should do something different to improve and succeed. Almost everyone is afraid of trying something new, but if you don’t try anything new you won’t know anything new. Let’s say you didn’t want to try to play the flute because you don’t think you will do good. That’s not true maybe you are really good, but you didn’t try. If you don’t try anything you don’t know what you are good at. When the quote says “be afraid not to try” it means that you should want to try. What is the fun in not trying anything new? There would be no point in living if you don’t try anything because then you won’t do anything. You might even meet new people that you become best friends with. A lot of people hate themselves for failing because they don’t know what it really means. As I said in the beginning failure is the lack of success, but if you take away the lack and of you get success. All failure should do is push you further and help you succeed and being afraid to not try will not help that at all. You need to try anything you come across. Even if it is just trying a new food. Trying a new food is something a lot of people especially children, don’t like to do because they are afraid they won’t like it. In my opinion it doesn’t make sense because if you don’t like it then don’t eat it again, if you like it then great. This quote simply says that you shouldn’t be brung down if you fail and try everything. Don’t be afraid to try. You should want to try and try again. This quote seemed really short when I read it, but it means a lot more than it seems. All this quote is trying to tell you is that you should always try and look at failure as a good thing.
Great things can happen when you fail. You have a second chance to shoot back up to the top again. Even if things get bad, you just try again. When you watch the news, you see many successful people winning awards, right? They didn’t achieve success overnight, though.
Steve Jobs was fired from his own company. He failed with his computer called ‘’LISA.’’ When he came back to Apple, he made the most profitable company in the USA.
When Walt Disney was looking for a job, no one wanted to hire him, so his brother got him a temporary job. He went on to co- found The Walt Disney company, which is now worth $40 billion.
Elizabeth Blackwell was rejected from 29 medical schools. She was advised by her relatives and friends that she should pretend to be a man because women were not deemed worthy enough to receive medical schooling. But she refused. She was accepted by accident by a college. Many MDs refused to work with her, but she finally got her degree. She became the first woman to receive a medical degree in the US. She got her degree in 1849.
Steven Spielberg was rejected from University of Southern California (USC), but he went on to direct movies, and he has grossed $8.5 billion from all the films he directed. Later, he became a trustee of the USC.
Colonel Harland Sanders ( the KFC founder) was a sixth- grade dropout. When he was 65, he started KFC. He was rejected over 1000 times, before selling his secret recipe.
Michael Jordan was cut from his high school varsity basketball team. But this just made him work harder to reach his goal. He even said, “I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot, and I missed. I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
So many successful people had to go through failure to achieve their goals. The quote “ Don’t be afraid to fail. Be afraid not to try,” has one main meaning that I am getting from it. It means that you don’t know what the outcome will be, so there is always a chance that you will not fail. For example, if you are taking a test, you might come across a question which you don’t know. You get a chance to know what you don’t know, and you can learn that, and when you take a test next time, you will know the answer to that question. Thomas Edison once said, “ I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” Instead of looking at failure in a bad way, you could look at it in the way Edison looked at failure. For example, if you are fixing a car,and you make some mistakes, the next time you try to fix a car, you know all these different ways you shouldn’t try, so you don’t make the same mistake.
The facts at the website that you got it from is a little wrong. http://www.bradaronson.com/famous-failures/ doesn't have all the correct answers. Just saying.
“Don't Be Afraid to Fail. Be afraid NOT to try.” When I read this quote, I contemplate about what in the world it means. As I started reading this quote even more, I realized how powerful these two complex sentences were. It told me to try my best. Because, without trying your best, you won’t know what surprises can occur in your life. With trying your best, you can succeed. It’s fine if you think of this quote in a different way. Besides, the whole outcome for everyone is to try your best. On the other hand, people now tend to think that failure is a bad thing. Well, let me tell you something… You are WRONG. If you think about it, failure is one of the most amazing things in the world. You might be asking yourself “WHAT?” It is true. Everybody fails in their life one day or another. So, we are all even. Failure could lead you to endless possibilities. Failure gives you another chance to try harder.
A famous quote from Steve Jobs is “Failure doesn’t mean you will never achieve, it just means it takes a little longer.” Steve Jobs has failed many times in his life. Then he realized it just took him a step further in achieving. This just means that when you fail you get more experience. As you get more experience, you get to work harder in achieving your goals. The experience that you get just makes your life much, much easier. Let’s say that you got a bad grade on your test, like a 60%. This tells you that you should try harder. Afterwards, because of your experience, I am 100 percent sure that you will do much better from the first time. So, if you do not try, you will not succeed. Like I said before, everyone has failed before. And, that is ok. How will you learn new things without failing? Many people fear from failure. But, according to what I just said, you should not. If you don’t try then it will not benefit in the future.
Let’s think about the Wright Brothers for a second. They had a goal in their mind. This is just how we, as kids have goals for the future. Well, take the Wright Brothers as examples. They are very famous inventors who invented aircraft's. If you think about it, they must off gone through so much trial-and-error. If they messed up, they wouldn’t just sit there and sob. They would take their bright minds, get back up, and start again. Just remember, they were doing this to accomplish a dream. No matter how many times they failed, they weren’t afraid to try. Because of them, now you can travel to wherever you want (off course with a passport). If you do not try, how are we going to have great people like them in this generation? We want to grow from the past, not sink.
So, my last words for you are NEVER TO GIVE UP! Failing is just a chance to try again and hope for the best.
In current society, failure is considered as horror and defeat. Individuals do not acknowledge the full, deep explanation to failure. Failure is NOT a lack of success. Others just titter around and embarrass someone who has not completed a task at the highest potential, and they bring someone downhearted. They would feel sad and humiliated, when they should be feeling pleased that they gave their assignment a shot. Giving up is not a key to success. People must appreciate what they have gotten out of trying. In reality, failure is a lot better than to surrender on a task. You could have just blown away a perfect opportunity just because of the fright holding you back. This modern day community can be holding people away from their dreams of success. People now have to start understanding that the fear of failure cannot interfere with new opportunities heading your way. This quote, “Don't Be Afraid to Fail. Be afraid NOT to try,” conveys plenty of crucial information regarding the true meaning of failure. You should always remember that somebody else can’t take control of your decisions, and that you should always stay positive about your final outcome. After reading this quote, the definition of failure in dictionaries is extremely irrelevant. It is like two forces pushing against each other. There is the positive force, which is the quote, and the negative force, which relates to most of the definitions of failure pushing each other. Till this day, both forces continue to shove one another, since unfortunately many people still believe as failure being absolutely terrible and horrifying. You should NEVER stop striving to reach your goals. The embarrassment should not matter as long as you try. Everyone on this planet makes mistakes. It is natural and a part of life because it helps you move on. Think about it. What would happen if no human or creature tried to do anything in this world? What if they never tried to do good in school, or good at home. There would be no challenge left, and everything would be left plain and boring. The most itty-bitty amount of success would be like breaking the world record. Thinking like a world like this is what would be terrifying. A life like this would be insanely tedious. The main message here is to always try, and never let the fear of failure hold you back from what you are able to accomplish. This ten word quote can change someone’s life. It can give someone the strength they need, to start moving on. It can make someone go from trudging through a difficult time, to walking, then finally sprinting to get out of the struggle they are facing. With the people around us, life can be a struggle with the fear of what others may think, but I have learned to dismiss the negative forces and attempt to reach to my hopes and dreams. I hope that this message will spread, nobody will be afraid fail, and everyone will always recall to try, try again.
The first time I read this quote, I thought, “Wow! Who could of thought of failure in such a way and put it into two sentences. These simple words may not look much but they hold a powerful meaning and hold a powerful impact that can change your life in a different perspective. When I first read the first sentence, I thought that, if you were to fail, then you can use that to your advantage to get one step closer for what you’re looking for. It’s is almost like saying live life at its best because if you don’t, you will never know what life had to offer and the opportunities that it can uphold. Having to fail, is much better than having not to try because in life, you can use that failure to outsmart many to come life challenges. Everyone tries to avoid failure, they fear it like the dark, like something can come out of any place at any time. But think of success like a storm of money. Way too many people misinterpret this act because of what they hear about it. It is a stereotype about a word, no different than gender or ethnicity, failure is a beautiful thing that is as or probably even more important than success. Rather than doing something wrong, think of failure as a ticket towards success. Thomas Edison once said, “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” Instead of looking at failure in a bad way, you could look at it in the way Edison looked at failure. Edison tried and tried until he found a way that worked. He thought of it as a way that is incompatible with what he was looking for, in short, he had a reason of not calling it failure and that was what strived him to look for a way that was compatible with what he was looking for. It gave him that urge to finish what he started and because he failed, it made him sure that he wanted to get it right. Everyone makes mistakes and fails at one stage in their life and we use those mistakes to improve. The bigger the failure or mistake, the more success you will accomplish using your failure. The main message here is to always try, and never let the fear of failure hold you back from what you are able to accomplish. This quote tells me to never, EVER stop striving for what I’ve wanted to achieve. This quote has the power to give a presidential candidate enough experience and strength to win an election, this quote has the power of giving a basketball team that is losing 0-72, to get a comeback and win, this quote has the power of developing a dream. Now if we let that power go to waste, then failure will be a negative word but if we change that then failure will be considered a word of courage, a word of hope, a word to learn from. Failure is a word in my dictionary, but it is in the part where Thomas Edison said, “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work!”
Jiselle D’souza 6th Grade Iselin Middle School Quote: Don't Be Afraid to Fail. Be afraid NOT to try. “You will always miss 100% of the chances you don’t take!” Honestly I don’t know who said that but I agree with them 100%. Have you ever seen a person that builds up enough courage to go on a roller coaster but when they get to the front of the line they decide they don’t want to go and they leave.That person will never know the excitement of the ride. That person will never know the rush you get right before going down the drop, and that person will never know how amazing the view of the amusement park is from up on the roller coaster unless they get fear out of their minds, let curiosity take control and go on the ride.
I used to be that person. The first time I rode a roller coaster was about 3 years ago at one of my friends birthday parties which she had held in an amusement park. All of my friends urged my to ride the roller coaster with them but I was too scared to go on. My friends knew that deep down I really wanted to go so they shoved me into the line and made me get on the roller coaster with them, and I’m glad they did!
Riding that roller coaster was amazing! If I wouldn’t have taken the chance to ride it I may still be scared today and I wouldn’t have had the thrill of riding the coaster. This month’s quote is a quote that people could and should live by. If you don’t take the chances you have to do something you may never know the thrills, pleasures, or wonders that come with it. For example, if an actor is auditioning for a play for the first time they most likely will be scared, but if they don’t get up on the stage and act they will never get the role they worked so hard for. Being scared of things is natural as human beings but you shouldn’t let your fear get in the way of what you want to do or love to do. Fear is just our minds telling us that there may be a risk in what you will do ,but most things have a risk. If you do not study for a test you will be taking the risk of getting a bad grade. If you will never take risks you will never do anything good in life and you will never have fun in life.
Most people don’t like to fail. (I know I certainly hate failing!) That is also natural. As humans we try to do everything to the best of our abilities and most of us don’t like to fail. Taking chances is not the same thing as failing. If you take a chance and are prepared for what you are doing you will do great and nothing will be able to bring you down! If you take a chance and aren’t ready for what you are about to do you may fail. If you don’t take the chance at all you will surely fail because if you don’t try to do what you are doing you can’t do it.In conclusion you shouldn’t think about failing, but what will happen if you don’t take the chance /what good things will happen by taking the chance.
Don't Be Afraid to Fail. Be afraid NOT to try. When I first thought of this, I thought why I should waste my time on something that I was sure I was going to fail. However, as I thought of this more, I realized if you don’t try, then you will never be able to do something. In other words, it is actually worth doing things that you know you will fail in so that you can get over your fears, and also so that you can have the feeling of exhilaration that you have done something new. Many famous people were once in pitiful conditions, but rose and became some of the most famous people on earth. Take Walt Disney, for example. He paid investors way too much, and became bankrupt. In fact, once, he was begging on the streets, and ate out of a trash can. Then, he saw a mouse, and came up with a plan for Mickey Mouse. He didn’t stop trying and wasn’t afraid to fail, and today, his company is around 150 billion. You will be thinking that not everybody gets that lucky, but if you think that way, then think again. You do it all the time! Instances are that you come across a test in which you don’t know most of the answers. Instead of becoming immobilized with fear or thinking that the question is a waste of time, most of us go and take an educated guess. So, you weren’t afraid to fail, and you were afraid not to try. Also, you will feel better about yourself instead of knowing that you flunked the test because you didn’t know the answer. People go for the lottery, because they always feel as if they shouldn't fear failing, but they should be afraid not to try. There was also Thomas Edison. He failed approximately 1,000 times on his light bulb. But eventually he made the first light bulb because of lack of fear of failing, even after 1,000 times I thought that this phrase is completely rubbish. It technically is saying ‘Even though you are going to fail, you should try,’ which in my opinion was completely rubbish, but after looking it from a more practical point of view, it started to make a little sense. So, in other words, according to me, the phrase isn’t quite wrong. It just sounds as if the person wanted you to fail, even though he probably didn’t. This phrase means to me as if the person wants you to try out new scary things. For the record, however, I will not be going on Gravity Max. I think there should also have been a limit to this phrase, because it is taken as the law of the world, then babied that are just learning to walk will start to make their own food without parents, and they just might burn down their house in the process. They might move and play with matches, and might burn down the house in the process again. Even experienced people might try to fix global warming because of this statement using a new material made in factories, and they might fail to anticipate that they are ejecting smoke into the atmosphere, therefore causing more global warming, and this might cause the ozone layer to wear down to the point of nothingness. So, overall, this phrase is important, but shouldn’t be taken too seriously.
What does the quote, “Don't Be Afraid to Fail. Be afraid NOT to try” mean. Well after reading this my brain completely shut down trying to comprehend this quote. I mean it makes no sense right? Isn’t failure a bad thing? If we’re afraid to fail... That means no failure can happen. Right? Well as I thought about it I started to uncover the meaning and it made more sense. First off, people usually think that failure and making mistakes is some kind of taboo for humans. But that’s completely wrong. Making mistakes is okay. That’s how we learn. Failure has been part of humans since day one.
When cave men had to find what was edible and what wasn’t, lots of people had died to try and figure it out. Take fire for example. They couldn’t just make a source of heat and light appear out of thin air. But eventually, humans learned to harness it and now we can use it properly and safely.
Also think of someone from today like Michael Jordan. He says “I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot, and I missed. I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” Just picture that. He missed 9,000 shots and lost almost 300 games. That’s a lot! But did he give up? Did he sit in the corner and cry? Did he quit his career? NO! Well actually he did start making shoes but that's beside the point.
Another celebrity who has had a large impact on the world. Walt Disney. No one hired him as an artist and he could never get a job anywhere else either. His first animation studio went bankrupt. But did he lose all hope and just sob in the corner? Heck no! He continued to become the co-founder of The Walt Disney Company which had over $40 billion in revenue. Just imagine if he had quit and lost all hope. Disney wouldn’t be a thing. Mickey Mouse wouldn’t be a thing. All our favorite shows from our childhoods wouldn’t be a thing if he had just quit. But he didn’t and proceeded to become really successful.
And that's not all. I’m pretty sure everyone has heard of the leaning tower of pisa. But believe or not, it wasn’t always leaning like that. It was built straight and had fallen over. However, this error has created a popular tourist attraction that generates a lot of revenue of the owners.
So if you are sitting there and being rejected by everyone else and feel like you have no future in what you want to do, just keep persisting. Because if you don’t try, you’ll never succeed. Going back to the quote, do not be afraid to fail. Failure creates knowledge so you can prevent yourself and others from doing it again in the future. But if you are too scared to try, you’ll never succeed and might end up regretting it your whole life. So just be determined and keep persisting and maybe, your dreams will come true.
Failure. Who isn’t scared of failure? We have been always taught and it is our natural instinct to feel that failure is a bad thing. Like most things, we can look at failure in two different ways. If you are always afraid of doing new things, you will never be able to live your life. If you live with the fear that you my fail, how are you going to find your different abilities that you are good at? You should always try new things, and who knows you might have a secret skill. Every successful man has to face difficulties, and that’s what makes them so special.
Haven’t you ever dreamed of your future life and feel that you have it all planned out? You want to become someone rich or someone famous who people look up-to. To insure that this happens, you need to take risks. You should not be afraid to fail. If you don’t ever try different options, you may turn out to be a completely different person than you currently are.
This quote relates to those people who are scared of what other people think about them. Live life like you want. Do what you feel. Appreciate all the opportunities you get to do things. Don’t just give them up. When you have the chance to do something good, do it. As long as you want to do something and you are doing it for yourself don’t be scared to fail. Failing is just part of your life. Who hasn’t failed a test in school a few times? It’s not like anyone remembers. Feel free to continue doing things that you enjoy whether or not you are good at it. There will always be someone who might be better at something than you, but don’t let that get to you.
These two lines of 10 words mean a lot more than it looks like. These words can relate to me so much. With everything going on, sometimes you wish they weren’t so many people around you who can see the faults you make. You want to be able to do things without everybody watching every move you make. Sometimes you never know what the outcome of your attempt may be. Don’t give up if you fail once. Try again and who knows what can happen. Don’t get held back because you are scared to fail.
What would life be with no one wanting to try new things? Half the things people discovered or invented would never have happened if people were scared to do new things. The world would be full of people who are scared of doing the tiniest of things. You should make mistakes and do things that you aren’t sure of. Someday you can look back at all those mistakes you made and you sure will find learning’s from them. No one can make fun of you for doing something you did wrong because they know they make as many mistakes as you do. Live life in this moment, feel free and don’t think what might happen in the future.
I think that this quote encourages others to try new things. It gives out a message saying that we shouldn’t be afraid to try new things. Don’t be afraid of failing at something. Don’t worry about doing terrible on that next test. We need to loosen up, chill out on worrying and being afraid. Because when you try new things, you learn new things. And when we make mistakes, we learn from them. Did you bomb that test? Well then, find out what you got wrong and study it so that next time it comes up, you will already be a master of those questions. When things go wrong in life, never ever give up until there is no avoiding failure. Besides, failure isn’t all that bad. You just have to know how to handle it. I think the quote, “Don't Be Afraid to Fail. Be afraid NOT to try” also means that instead of being afraid of failure, we should be afraid not trying at all. I remember a quote that said, “You will always miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” The same goes with trying new things. If you don’t try anything new, you will never learn. You won’t be able to succeed in life. It would be just sad if there were people who hide in their rooms, afraid of trying new things because they are afraid to fail. Michael Jordan once said, “I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.” There are some people out there in the world that absolutely cannot accept failure. Don’t listen to them because they have the wrong idea. Life isn’t perfect, and no one and nothing is or will ever be perfect. I think that’s why Mr. Glick never gives out 100s. Anyway, those people who think that people should be perfect are wrong. Failure is acceptable. What isn’t acceptable is those people who never try. They may have their reasons, though. Like maybe they once made a huge mistake in life that changed them forever. That is not an excuse from trying or failing again. Like I said, no one is perfect. Everyone has their mistakes and their failures. That shouldn’t keep you from trying again. Another Michael Jordan quote (last one, seriously!), “I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” The reason why there are those who succeed is because they have failed over and over again and again, time and time again. That is how people succeed. Not because of special super powers or cheating (cheating is for losers!). The successful ones in life make mistakes and learn from them. That’s why they are successful. People like Michael Jordan, or Martin Luther King Jr. are popular and successful because of perseverance, dedication, and trying again and again. MLK protested over and over again for African American rights. He didn’t give up when he went to jail, or when his house went up in flames. He kept on aiming high until he reached his target. We should all learn that no matter what obstacle we face, no matter what mistakes we make or the failures we experience, we must always keep trying until we get it right. And “don’t [ever] be afraid to fail. Be afraid of NOT to try.”
“Don't Be Afraid to Fail. Be afraid NOT to try” What does that mean? I was trying to figure it out for a few minutes, then it came to me. To me, this quote is very meaningful. You should never be afraid to fail. If you fail, you should always get back up, and try again. When you try again, and fail, it’s OK. “Be afraid NOT to try” means that if you don't try, you will not learn. After failing,you should learn. Don’t be afraid to learn! In life I’ve failed many times, and I kept on failing at times. I always got up and learned from it. One time, I didn’t try again, I didn’t try to learn from my own mistakes, there were consequences. If I never tried to perform on stage again, I would’ve still had stage fright. This is a great quote. My father always says that this is a characteristic of a person with a growth mindset. These people always want a challenge, just like everyone in G&T. We always want to learn from our mistakes.
Another quote that is similar to this is, “Fail fast, Succeed Sooner.” this is very self explanatory. Failing is great, as long as you learn from it. Everyone should take their failures as motivation to learn and move on. Succeeding sooner is important. After you Fail, TRY to succeed much sooner. For example, I had almost drowned, but fortunately my cousin had saved me. I took that as inspiration to learn swimming, and save others just like me. You should also try self-teaching. That’s what I did with swimming. When you are self teaching yourself because you want to, that shows a growth mindset. People with a Fixed mindset would just give up on learning to swim, and stay in the corner while everyone is enjoying their time. You can develop a phobia later. (you already have a phobia, it’s alright to not do it.) You should always try to have a growth mindset. These quotes tell us to try harder after failing. After trying multiple times, you will succeed. You should never think that making mistakes is bad. Never be afraid to fail. These quotes can affect our whole life. If you fail a big test, try again and again until you succeed. When you get a bad grade on a test, try over and over again until you succeed.
Nowadays, many people, including me sometimes can’t handle failure. Many think that if you fail,you committed a big crime. Before I heard any of these quotes,or about this topic (that was about 1.5 years ago) Some people would start to make a fit about what happened, and don’t accept that this was their mistake. Those people don’t want to learn from it. Failure is the best way to learn. It makes you aggravated sometimes, and you don’t want to Fail again. That motivates you to do even better the next. “Don't Be Afraid to Fail. Be afraid NOT to try”
This quote actually makes a lot of sense. It means to me exactly what it sounds like, and for the whole part (Notice I’m not saying most part) it’s true as well. People don’t realize sometimes, its best to try new things, and progress in them. It’s not called pro when you do something you know how to do. Its called pro when you manage to do something new, that you have never done before, in a presentable way. If you afraid to fail, it is pretty much self explanatory that you aren’t going to try new things. I know every single person has a talent, and not only one but multiple things. But the point here is, if you stop trying, and stop believing there is no way you will accomplish anything that you don’t know how to do. We are all capable of being renaissance men and women and making a change in the world and society around us. The one word that comes to mind when I read his quote is persevere. There are so many challenges coming up ahead of you. Your SATs, ACTs, College Placement Test, your College Entrance Test, all of these tests and all the discoveries you will make on your road there. But you know when you will get there? The answer? When you try new things. You should be afraid that you will give into something you learned in first grade, and not do something new, something interesting, or something challenging. Don’t run away from all those interests you have all the way in the middle of your heart. Dream big. Achieve those dreams. All because you chose to try something new to you. The part I like about this quote is the part that said to not be afraid to fail. I thinks it very apparent that many people choose to stick back because they fear failing. When someone does that, it means to me that they are abandoning so many things inside them waiting ready to shine just because they are scared that they might fail this challenge ahead of them. In a way, if you think about it, it’ is not a long time where you meet the same challenge you avoided back again. Sometimes, it will never come back to you and keep you from accomplishing things successfully, your way. When you overcome a challenge, you know that wonderful feeling you get? You can get that feeling everytime. Professional basketball player Michael Jordan says “You miss 99 % of the shots you don’t take” I find this very true. If you don’t try something the first time it comes to you, it might never come back. Perfect example of what happens when you don’t try something new. You will end up getting a chance for it, and finally miss out. What a bummer! It’s like having a whole summer break ahead of you, and then deciding, you have never went to London before, so you should cancel your trip this year because you didn’t ever go. You’re never going to get anything, because everything has a first time. That’s l have for now ,folks!
Failure is something that many people can’t accept these days. Due to this they are constantly afraid to to do things. If they don’t try it how will they find out whether or not they are good at it. I think this advice is very helpful in helping people realize that they have potential. You don’t what you can do until you try. Otherwise, you will be just as useless as you think you are if you failed. No one can make fun of you if you are doing something for the first time and failed because you are just a beginner. Every great person was a beginner once. This statement helps you to realize that. When it says “Be afraid NOT to try.”, I thought that made perfect sense. If you don’t try anything, then you will not know what your talents are. That is when people will make fun of you and call you useless. That is what you should be afraid of. If you actually try something, there is a chance you might like it and you might even win. You need to take that chance or live without knowing what you can do. You shouldn’t have the fear of losing and that is what the statement is saying. Even if you did fail, that would just be an opportunity for you to learn. For example, in 4th grade you are taking a little quiz to see if you know your multiplication facts by heart. You accidentally say that 6 times 9 is 56 rather than 54. This is a moment that you can learn from. From that moment forward you can start practicing 6 times 9 a bit more. This is what is so great about mistakes. If no one ever accidentally burned themselves than none of us would have known fire is dangerous. This message is really important to people. The reason so many people are committing suicide is that they sad that they failed. They could not handle it. They took it badly instead of learning from it. If you don’t try the same thing might happen to you. This is what makes this message so heartfelt. If you are taking a test and you come across a question you don’t know this inspires me to just try and pick one rather than pick nothing. It also inspires me to study harder on my next test. The message brings people to realize what to do when the times are tough. It is these kind of messages that we are lacking these days. If we heard things like these more often there won’t be things like war and hatred. There won’t be terrorist attacks in this world. So many people are obsessed with power, money and fame that they are forgetting the important things like helping others by giving advice like this. This statement is an example of what people nowadays need to hear. “Don't Be Afraid to Fail. Be afraid NOT to try.” mens to me that it is better to do something and fail rather than do nothing whatsoever.
ReplyDeleteTo me, "Don't Be Afraid to Fail. Be afraid NOT to try" means you should never be afraid to try your hardest even though you do not get it, you should be afraid not to try because you never know if you could get the answer correct. Failing is something that some people look down at. If you are one of those people, you should at least try so you would not 100% fail the task or answering the question. Also, it is a okay if you fail because everyone fails something, and when you fail you learn something important that can be a life lesson for you. Many people have done many bad things to themselves when they fail but instead of doing that, why don't they just at least try right? Instead of doing something so simple, they just made it harder for themselves. Your failures can and might inspire your heart to do something more important for you and others. You have to look are failures two different perspectives. One perspective is when you hate yourself so much and you punish yourself for doing that failure. Another perspective is when think about your failure again and see how it can help you and inspire you. Some examples of failures is: failing a test or quiz, failing how to understand the meaning of books, failing knowing how to open a lock, failing your handwriting (how neat it is), etc. All these failures can make you change yourself, who you are, your personality, and much more. I feel like more people in this world or even all the people of the universe should hear these two simple sentences. These two simple sentences can stop murders, suicide, suicial thoughts, and much more. Failure is something that people cannot accept or think about. Due to this, they can be always afraid to do things and try new things. If people do not at least try, how will they ever find out if they are good at it and have potential in themselves? If you fail and this is your first time doing it (the task), nobody should make fun of you or tease you because you are just a beginner. Some might think that these ten simple words means nothing, while others think it has a strong meaning and message. If you are one of those people who thinks that these ten words mean nothing, keep on rereading them over and over to yourself until you understand it. For example, when I just started PEG. I thought that I would flunk it and fail and the worst grades I could possibly get. Some part of me wanted to try harder and some part of me just wants to give up because of how much work we had compared to my average school homework. But once I tried, I got used to the amount of homework we had, how quickly we should know and remember things, how much effort we should put in all our work, how heavy my backpack was, and much more. But at the end of the year, I though about how this program made me a better person and a fast learner.
ReplyDeleteThis quote is really meaningful. It could follow you for many years if you decide to take the advice. Not only is it helpful to young kids but it is useful to adults as well. “Don’t be afraid to fail. Be afraid NOT to try.” In my opinion, this is the best advice a guardian or teacher can give you. This quote is telling you that as long as you try, you did well enough to satisfy your thinking. If you don’t try at all, then how would you know your limits? You are not proving anything to anyone if you just give up so easily. I feel like failure is such a problem these days. So many people are so afraid to get a bad grade, they’d rather not try at all and get a good grade than try and maybe fail. That is the fear of failing. I sometimes have that thinking as well. I am afraid of trying something in concern of getting a bad grade. I also know many people who give up on trying for the sake of keeping their average high in school. Though I agree that achieving good grades is important, I also believe that it doesn’t mean we should stop trying and simply give up. That in my opinion it is useless to give up. It won’t help you in life ever! You will hurt yourself more by not trying than getting a bad grade because you know you could have done better. My math teacher Mrs. Campbell always encourages us to do the best we can. Even if you don’t know it, take an educated guess because guess what? You might surprise yourself and get it right.
ReplyDeleteThis reminds of last week in G and T. Our group was losing by 300 points in jeopardy. We decided to go for the 500 point question to raise our score to be first. We got a question in which we didn’t know the definition. We didn’t give up though. We took the pre-fix and knew it had something to do with temperature. Our educated guess that maybe that part of the brain was that the part that controlled the temperature of your body. We got it right. Giving up wouldn’t have given us the point. We tried and succeeded. You can’t be afraid to fail. We weren’t afraid. We took the chances of losing 500 points which motivated us even more to do better. Our group was more motivated to do better when we knew we had more at risk. We got the answer correct and got the lead. We didn’t give up. No one in life should be afraid to fail. You should defiantly be afraid to not try though. You should never be discouraged by the risk of getting a bad grade or failing any project. This is my opinion on the quote “Don’t be afraid to fail. Be afraid NOT to try” This is what I think it means. You should never be feared by a simple thing in failing and not try to do something you might be good at. Face your fears. Don’t give up!
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ReplyDelete“Don't Be Afraid to Fail. Be afraid NOT to try.” This quote can mean a lot of different things to a lot of different people. Failure is something that people tend to think is something bad, something that you should be afraid of, but no, that’s not the case. Failure is a beautiful, amazing thing that can let you do things that you could never have imagined to do without it. Without failure there could never be any success, without failure nothing important could be achieved. Even if you fail you still tried your hardest to succeed, but without trying you didn’t try, you didn’t give a second of your time to try to accomplish what you wanted. Without Edison’s 10,000 attempts of failure we wouldn’t have had the opportunity to have a lightbulb in your room right now. As Edison said in this quote, “I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.” He never gave up, at least he tried to do something and he did, his failure allowed him to become a world-renowned inventor. Without the Wright Brothers crashing into a barn we wouldn’t have had airplanes. No matter how bad or how hard you think you failed, you are wrong, giving up is the only true way to fail is to give up. Giving up does nothing for you, it doesn’t help, it doesn’t make you rich, it doesn’t even give you a Subway gift card. Getting back up again, though, that’s a completely different story, that can can get you rich, that can get you friends, it can even get you a Subway gift card. If you don’t even try to do something remarkable for yourself then what is the point? Everyone tries to avoid failure, they fear it like a monster lurking in the shadows. But think of success like a rainbow in a beautiful happy day. Way too many people misinterpret this act because of what they hear about it. It is a stereotype about a word, no different than gender or ethnicity, failure is a beautiful thing that is as or probably even more important than success. Rather than doing something wrong, think of failure as a stepping stone in a huge lake, it helps you a lot more than you think to reach your goal, to succeed. This new point of view will change your opinion on failure completely. Now I bet you will actually try to mess up on your next math test, but that is not how it works. If you fail purposely, then that’s just dumb, what do you accomplish by getting something wrong on purpose. You learned nothing from doing that. You have to learn from past mistakes and experiences, and fails. Messing yourself up on purpose is just wrong, it is both a dumb and a bad thing to do. Don’t try to hurt yourself while thinking it is the right thing to do. As Chris Bradford said, “There is no failure except in no longer trying.” No matter what you think, always remember that it is better to try something new but fail rather than do nothing at all.
ReplyDeleteAccording to me, Edison failed 1,000 times. Just saying.
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DeleteBut in Edison's quote, he said he failed 10,000 times. Just saying.
When I first saw this quote my mind was bamboozled. No one today even words anything close to this poem which makes this poem very confusing. I analyzed the poem for a very long time. Soon this made way more sense to me. I realized I am practically the opposite, I am afraid of failing but I am not afraid of trying. This surprises me very much as I am usually the same as most people in terms of thinking at least. This poem really makes me think about how I am compared to everyone else or in this specific case the author. I really wonder what was going through the authors head when making this quote and what inspired the author to make it. If I was the author what I think what inspired me was something that I recently failed at or a fail that has been spiraling through my head that I had to express in some way or another. One fail that happened to me was when I was typing. I had to type two pages for an essay on word and I forgot to save. At that time I was using a lot of Google Classroom so I didn’t save. This devastated me and I definitely didn’t want to type the essay again but I was still forced to by my parents. I think this was the best example in my life to fit the opposite of this poem. I was afraid to fail and I was not afraid to not try. Even I am surprised at myself. This is one of the first times in my life I had this feeling. I do understand what the author is trying to say. Their saying that it is fine if you fail and it won’t change who you internally are. If you do not try it will come back to haunt you. It is better trying something and failing than not trying at all. This quote inspires me so much. It opens up a whole new world where everyone thinks the positive and not the negative. Everything looks new to me, the quote changed part of who I was and made a new me, probably a better me. This shows me to learn from your failures and it is okay if you fail again because you will learn from those fails. I have done this so many times in my life. This shows me that I sometimes think different than other people. Most normal people think that failures are “bad”, which I do to, but this changed me to think that failures do “good” for you. This changed me completely. I feel like I am being transformed from a failure to a better person. I think that anyone who reads this poem will also be metamorphasized into a new person. His message he wants to send is also very clear. This is my reaction to this wonderful, amazing, and fabulous quote and I wonder what all of you think about this.
ReplyDeleteFor most people failure is the lack of success, but if you really think about it failure means you are open to new ideas. Let’s say you fail at gymnastics because you can’t do a backflip. At least now you know you should try something else as your passion. Failure could also make you want to do better. Even though you think you failed at gymnastics it might have not been that bad. You could keep trying and trying to do better and eventually you will know how to do flips. It all matters how you look at things. If you look at your as something that is holding you back you will probably never get better at that certain thing. If you look at failure as something to push you forward you will try and try and eventually succeed. In the quote it says “Don’t be afraid to fail.” This doesn't mean that you should want to fail, but if you do don’t think of it as the worst thing in the world. Make it a good thing and learn from it. Failure tells you that you should do something different to improve and succeed. Almost everyone is afraid of trying something new, but if you don’t try anything new you won’t know anything new. Let’s say you didn’t want to try to play the flute because you don’t think you will do good. That’s not true maybe you are really good, but you didn’t try. If you don’t try anything you don’t know what you are good at. When the quote says “be afraid not to try” it means that you should want to try. What is the fun in not trying anything new? There would be no point in living if you don’t try anything because then you won’t do anything. You might even meet new people that you become best friends with. A lot of people hate themselves for failing because they don’t know what it really means. As I said in the beginning failure is the lack of success, but if you take away the lack and of you get success. All failure should do is push you further and help you succeed and being afraid to not try will not help that at all. You need to try anything you come across. Even if it is just trying a new food. Trying a new food is something a lot of people especially children, don’t like to do because they are afraid they won’t like it. In my opinion it doesn’t make sense because if you don’t like it then don’t eat it again, if you like it then great. This quote simply says that you shouldn’t be brung down if you fail and try everything. Don’t be afraid to try. You should want to try and try again. This quote seemed really short when I read it, but it means a lot more than it seems. All this quote is trying to tell you is that you should always try and look at failure as a good thing.
ReplyDeleteGreat things can happen when you fail. You have a second chance to shoot back up to the top again. Even if things get bad, you just try again. When you watch the news, you see many successful people winning awards, right? They didn’t achieve success overnight, though.
ReplyDeleteSteve Jobs was fired from his own company. He failed with his computer called ‘’LISA.’’ When he came back to Apple, he made the most profitable company in the USA.
When Walt Disney was looking for a job, no one wanted to hire him, so his brother got him a temporary job. He went on to co- found The Walt Disney company, which is now worth $40 billion.
Elizabeth Blackwell was rejected from 29 medical schools. She was advised by her relatives and friends that she should pretend to be a man because women were not deemed worthy enough to receive medical schooling. But she refused. She was accepted by accident by a college. Many MDs refused to work with her, but she finally got her degree. She became the first woman to receive a medical degree in the US. She got her degree in 1849.
Steven Spielberg was rejected from University of Southern California (USC), but he went on to direct movies, and he has grossed $8.5 billion from all the films he directed. Later, he became a trustee of the USC.
Colonel Harland Sanders ( the KFC founder) was a sixth- grade dropout. When he was 65, he started KFC. He was rejected over 1000 times, before selling his secret recipe.
Michael Jordan was cut from his high school varsity basketball team. But this just made him work harder to reach his goal. He even said,
“I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot, and I missed. I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
So many successful people had to go through failure to achieve their goals. The quote “ Don’t be afraid to fail. Be afraid not to try,” has one main meaning that I am getting from it. It means that you don’t know what the outcome will be, so there is always a chance that you will not fail. For example, if you are taking a test, you might come across a question which you don’t know. You get a chance to know what you don’t know, and you can learn that, and when you take a test next time, you will know the answer to that question.
Thomas Edison once said, “ I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” Instead of looking at failure in a bad way, you could look at it in the way Edison looked at failure. For example, if you are fixing a car,and you make some mistakes, the next time you try to fix a car, you know all these different ways you shouldn’t try, so you don’t make the same mistake.
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DeleteThe facts at the website that you got it from is a little wrong. http://www.bradaronson.com/famous-failures/ doesn't have all the correct answers. Just saying.
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Delete“Don't Be Afraid to Fail. Be afraid NOT to try.” When I read this quote, I contemplate about what in the world it means. As I started reading this quote even more, I realized how powerful these two complex sentences were. It told me to try my best. Because, without trying your best, you won’t know what surprises can occur in your life. With trying your best, you can succeed. It’s fine if you think of this quote in a different way. Besides, the whole outcome for everyone is to try your best. On the other hand, people now tend to think that failure is a bad thing. Well, let me tell you something… You are WRONG. If you think about it, failure is one of the most amazing things in the world. You might be asking yourself “WHAT?” It is true. Everybody fails in their life one day or another. So, we are all even. Failure could lead you to endless possibilities. Failure gives you another chance to try harder.
ReplyDeleteA famous quote from Steve Jobs is “Failure doesn’t mean you will never achieve, it just means it takes a little longer.” Steve Jobs has failed many times in his life. Then he realized it just took him a step further in achieving. This just means that when you fail you get more experience. As you get more experience, you get to work harder in achieving your goals. The experience that you get just makes your life much, much easier. Let’s say that you got a bad grade on your test, like a 60%. This tells you that you should try harder. Afterwards, because of your experience, I am 100 percent sure that you will do much better from the first time. So, if you do not try, you will not succeed. Like I said before, everyone has failed before. And, that is ok. How will you learn new things without failing? Many people fear from failure. But, according to what I just said, you should not. If you don’t try then it will not benefit in the future.
Let’s think about the Wright Brothers for a second. They had a goal in their mind. This is just how we, as kids have goals for the future. Well, take the Wright Brothers as examples. They are very famous inventors who invented aircraft's. If you think about it, they must off gone through so much trial-and-error. If they messed up, they wouldn’t just sit there and sob. They would take their bright minds, get back up, and start again. Just remember, they were doing this to accomplish a dream. No matter how many times they failed, they weren’t afraid to try. Because of them, now you can travel to wherever you want (off course with a passport). If you do not try, how are we going to have great people like them in this generation? We want to grow from the past, not sink.
So, my last words for you are NEVER TO GIVE UP! Failing is just a chance to try again and hope for the best.
In current society, failure is considered as horror and defeat. Individuals do not acknowledge the full, deep explanation to failure. Failure is NOT a lack of success. Others just titter around and embarrass someone who has not completed a task at the highest potential, and they bring someone downhearted. They would feel sad and humiliated, when they should be feeling pleased that they gave their assignment a shot. Giving up is not a key to success. People must appreciate what they have gotten out of trying. In reality, failure is a lot better than to surrender on a task. You could have just blown away a perfect opportunity just because of the fright holding you back. This modern day community can be holding people away from their dreams of success. People now have to start understanding that the fear of failure cannot interfere with new opportunities heading your way. This quote, “Don't Be Afraid to Fail. Be afraid NOT to try,” conveys plenty of crucial information regarding the true meaning of failure. You should always remember that somebody else can’t take control of your decisions, and that you should always stay positive about your final outcome. After reading this quote, the definition of failure in dictionaries is extremely irrelevant. It is like two forces pushing against each other. There is the positive force, which is the quote, and the negative force, which relates to most of the definitions of failure pushing each other. Till this day, both forces continue to shove one another, since unfortunately many people still believe as failure being absolutely terrible and horrifying. You should NEVER stop striving to reach your goals. The embarrassment should not matter as long as you try. Everyone on this planet makes mistakes. It is natural and a part of life because it helps you move on. Think about it. What would happen if no human or creature tried to do anything in this world? What if they never tried to do good in school, or good at home. There would be no challenge left, and everything would be left plain and boring. The most itty-bitty amount of success would be like breaking the world record. Thinking like a world like this is what would be terrifying. A life like this would be insanely tedious. The main message here is to always try, and never let the fear of failure hold you back from what you are able to accomplish. This ten word quote can change someone’s life. It can give someone the strength they need, to start moving on. It can make someone go from trudging through a difficult time, to walking, then finally sprinting to get out of the struggle they are facing. With the people around us, life can be a struggle with the fear of what others may think, but I have learned to dismiss the negative forces and attempt to reach to my hopes and dreams. I hope that this message will spread, nobody will be afraid fail, and everyone will always recall to try, try again.
ReplyDeleteThe first time I read this quote, I thought, “Wow! Who could of thought of failure in such a way and put it into two sentences. These simple words may not look much but they hold a powerful meaning and hold a powerful impact that can change your life in a different perspective. When I first read the first sentence, I thought that, if you were to fail, then you can use that to your advantage to get one step closer for what you’re looking for. It’s is almost like saying live life at its best because if you don’t, you will never know what life had to offer and the opportunities that it can uphold. Having to fail, is much better than having not to try because in life, you can use that failure to outsmart many to come life challenges. Everyone tries to avoid failure, they fear it like the dark, like something can come out of any place at any time. But think of success like a storm of money. Way too many people misinterpret this act because of what they hear about it. It is a stereotype about a word, no different than gender or ethnicity, failure is a beautiful thing that is as or probably even more important than success. Rather than doing something wrong, think of failure as a ticket towards success. Thomas Edison once said, “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” Instead of looking at failure in a bad way, you could look at it in the way Edison looked at failure. Edison tried and tried until he found a way that worked. He thought of it as a way that is incompatible with what he was looking for, in short, he had a reason of not calling it failure and that was what strived him to look for a way that was compatible with what he was looking for. It gave him that urge to finish what he started and because he failed, it made him sure that he wanted to get it right. Everyone makes mistakes and fails at one stage in their life and we use those mistakes to improve. The bigger the failure or mistake, the more success you will accomplish using your failure. The main message here is to always try, and never let the fear of failure hold you back from what you are able to accomplish. This quote tells me to never, EVER stop striving for what I’ve wanted to achieve. This quote has the power to give a presidential candidate enough experience and strength to win an election, this quote has the power of giving a basketball team that is losing 0-72, to get a comeback and win, this quote has the power of developing a dream. Now if we let that power go to waste, then failure will be a negative word but if we change that then failure will be considered a word of courage, a word of hope, a word to learn from. Failure is a word in my dictionary, but it is in the part where Thomas Edison said, “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work!”
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“You will always miss 100% of the chances you don’t take!” Honestly I don’t know who said that but I agree with them 100%. Have you ever seen a person that builds up enough courage to go on a roller coaster but when they get to the front of the line they decide they don’t want to go and they leave.That person will never know the excitement of the ride. That person will never know the rush you get right before going down the drop, and that person will never know how amazing the view of the amusement park is from up on the roller coaster unless they get fear out of their minds, let curiosity take control and go on the ride.
I used to be that person. The first time I rode a roller coaster was about 3 years ago at one of my friends birthday parties which she had held in an amusement park. All of my friends urged my to ride the roller coaster with them but I was too scared to go on. My friends knew that deep down I really wanted to go so they shoved me into the line and made me get on the roller coaster with them, and I’m glad they did!
Riding that roller coaster was amazing! If I wouldn’t have taken the chance to ride it I may still be scared today and I wouldn’t have had the thrill of riding the coaster. This month’s quote is a quote that people could and should live by. If you don’t take the chances you have to do something you may never know the thrills, pleasures, or wonders that come with it. For example, if an actor is auditioning for a play for the first time they most likely will be scared, but if they don’t get up on the stage and act they will never get the role they worked so hard for.
Being scared of things is natural as human beings but you shouldn’t let your fear get in the way of what you want to do or love to do. Fear is just our minds telling us that there may be a risk in what you will do ,but most things have a risk. If you do not study for a test you will be taking the risk of getting a bad grade. If you will never take risks you will never do anything good in life and you will never have fun in life.
Most people don’t like to fail. (I know I certainly hate failing!) That is also natural. As humans we try to do everything to the best of our abilities and most of us don’t like to fail. Taking chances is not the same thing as failing. If you take a chance and are prepared for what you are doing you will do great and nothing will be able to bring you down! If you take a chance and aren’t ready for what you are about to do you may fail. If you don’t take the chance at all you will surely fail because if you don’t try to do what you are doing you can’t do it.In conclusion you shouldn’t think about failing, but what will happen if you don’t take the chance /what good things will happen by taking the chance.
Don't Be Afraid to Fail. Be afraid NOT to try. When I first thought of this, I thought why I should waste my time on something that I was sure I was going to fail. However, as I thought of this more, I realized if you don’t try, then you will never be able to do something. In other words, it is actually worth doing things that you know you will fail in so that you can get over your fears, and also so that you can have the feeling of exhilaration that you have done something new. Many famous people were once in pitiful conditions, but rose and became some of the most famous people on earth. Take Walt Disney, for example. He paid investors way too much, and became bankrupt. In fact, once, he was begging on the streets, and ate out of a trash can. Then, he saw a mouse, and came up with a plan for Mickey Mouse. He didn’t stop trying and wasn’t afraid to fail, and today, his company is around 150 billion. You will be thinking that not everybody gets that lucky, but if you think that way, then think again. You do it all the time! Instances are that you come across a test in which you don’t know most of the answers. Instead of becoming immobilized with fear or thinking that the question is a waste of time, most of us go and take an educated guess. So, you weren’t afraid to fail, and you were afraid not to try. Also, you will feel better about yourself instead of knowing that you flunked the test because you didn’t know the answer. People go for the lottery, because they always feel as if they shouldn't fear failing, but they should be afraid not to try. There was also Thomas Edison. He failed approximately 1,000 times on his light bulb. But eventually he made the first light bulb because of lack of fear of failing, even after 1,000 times I thought that this phrase is completely rubbish. It technically is saying ‘Even though you are going to fail, you should try,’ which in my opinion was completely rubbish, but after looking it from a more practical point of view, it started to make a little sense. So, in other words, according to me, the phrase isn’t quite wrong. It just sounds as if the person wanted you to fail, even though he probably didn’t. This phrase means to me as if the person wants you to try out new scary things. For the record, however, I will not be going on Gravity Max. I think there should also have been a limit to this phrase, because it is taken as the law of the world, then babied that are just learning to walk will start to make their own food without parents, and they just might burn down their house in the process. They might move and play with matches, and might burn down the house in the process again. Even experienced people might try to fix global warming because of this statement using a new material made in factories, and they might fail to anticipate that they are ejecting smoke into the atmosphere, therefore causing more global warming, and this might cause the ozone layer to wear down to the point of nothingness. So, overall, this phrase is important, but shouldn’t be taken too seriously.
ReplyDeleteWhat does the quote, “Don't Be Afraid to Fail. Be afraid NOT to try” mean. Well after reading this my brain completely shut down trying to comprehend this quote. I mean it makes no sense right? Isn’t failure a bad thing? If we’re afraid to fail... That means no failure can happen. Right? Well as I thought about it I started to uncover the meaning and it made more sense. First off, people usually think that failure and making mistakes is some kind of taboo for humans. But that’s completely wrong. Making mistakes is okay. That’s how we learn. Failure has been part of humans since day one.
ReplyDeleteWhen cave men had to find what was edible and what wasn’t, lots of people had died to try and figure it out. Take fire for example. They couldn’t just make a source of heat and light appear out of thin air. But eventually, humans learned to harness it and now we can use it properly and safely.
Also think of someone from today like Michael Jordan. He says “I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot, and I missed. I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” Just picture that. He missed 9,000 shots and lost almost 300 games. That’s a lot! But did he give up? Did he sit in the corner and cry? Did he quit his career? NO! Well actually he did start making shoes but that's beside the point.
Another celebrity who has had a large impact on the world. Walt Disney. No one hired him as an artist and he could never get a job anywhere else either. His first animation studio went bankrupt. But did he lose all hope and just sob in the corner? Heck no! He continued to become the co-founder of The Walt Disney Company which had over $40 billion in revenue. Just imagine if he had quit and lost all hope. Disney wouldn’t be a thing. Mickey Mouse wouldn’t be a thing. All our favorite shows from our childhoods wouldn’t be a thing if he had just quit. But he didn’t and proceeded to become really successful.
And that's not all. I’m pretty sure everyone has heard of the leaning tower of pisa. But believe or not, it wasn’t always leaning like that. It was built straight and had fallen over. However, this error has created a popular tourist attraction that generates a lot of revenue of the owners.
So if you are sitting there and being rejected by everyone else and feel like you have no future in what you want to do, just keep persisting. Because if you don’t try, you’ll never succeed. Going back to the quote, do not be afraid to fail. Failure creates knowledge so you can prevent yourself and others from doing it again in the future. But if you are too scared to try, you’ll never succeed and might end up regretting it your whole life. So just be determined and keep persisting and maybe, your dreams will come true.
"Don't Be Afraid to Fail. Be afraid NOT to try."
ReplyDeleteFailure. Who isn’t scared of failure? We have been always taught and it is our natural instinct to feel that failure is a bad thing. Like most things, we can look at failure in two different ways. If you are always afraid of doing new things, you will never be able to live your life. If you live with the fear that you my fail, how are you going to find your different abilities that you are good at? You should always try new things, and who knows you might have a secret skill. Every successful man has to face difficulties, and that’s what makes them so special.
Haven’t you ever dreamed of your future life and feel that you have it all planned out? You want to become someone rich or someone famous who people look up-to. To insure that this happens, you need to take risks. You should not be afraid to fail. If you don’t ever try different options, you may turn out to be a completely different person than you currently are.
This quote relates to those people who are scared of what other people think about them. Live life like you want. Do what you feel. Appreciate all the opportunities you get to do things. Don’t just give them up. When you have the chance to do something good, do it. As long as you want to do something and you are doing it for yourself don’t be scared to fail. Failing is just part of your life. Who hasn’t failed a test in school a few times? It’s not like anyone remembers. Feel free to continue doing things that you enjoy whether or not you are good at it. There will always be someone who might be better at something than you, but don’t let that get to you.
These two lines of 10 words mean a lot more than it looks like. These words can relate to me so much. With everything going on, sometimes you wish they weren’t so many people around you who can see the faults you make. You want to be able to do things without everybody watching every move you make. Sometimes you never know what the outcome of your attempt may be. Don’t give up if you fail once. Try again and who knows what can happen. Don’t get held back because you are scared to fail.
What would life be with no one wanting to try new things? Half the things people discovered or invented would never have happened if people were scared to do new things. The world would be full of people who are scared of doing the tiniest of things. You should make mistakes and do things that you aren’t sure of. Someday you can look back at all those mistakes you made and you sure will find learning’s from them. No one can make fun of you for doing something you did wrong because they know they make as many mistakes as you do. Live life in this moment, feel free and don’t think what might happen in the future.
I think that this quote encourages others to try new things. It gives out a message saying that we shouldn’t be afraid to try new things. Don’t be afraid of failing at something. Don’t worry about doing terrible on that next test. We need to loosen up, chill out on worrying and being afraid. Because when you try new things, you learn new things. And when we make mistakes, we learn from them. Did you bomb that test? Well then, find out what you got wrong and study it so that next time it comes up, you will already be a master of those questions. When things go wrong in life, never ever give up until there is no avoiding failure. Besides, failure isn’t all that bad. You just have to know how to handle it. I think the quote, “Don't Be Afraid to Fail. Be afraid NOT to try” also means that instead of being afraid of failure, we should be afraid not trying at all. I remember a quote that said, “You will always miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” The same goes with trying new things. If you don’t try anything new, you will never learn. You won’t be able to succeed in life. It would be just sad if there were people who hide in their rooms, afraid of trying new things because they are afraid to fail. Michael Jordan once said, “I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.” There are some people out there in the world that absolutely cannot accept failure. Don’t listen to them because they have the wrong idea. Life isn’t perfect, and no one and nothing is or will ever be perfect. I think that’s why Mr. Glick never gives out 100s. Anyway, those people who think that people should be perfect are wrong. Failure is acceptable. What isn’t acceptable is those people who never try. They may have their reasons, though. Like maybe they once made a huge mistake in life that changed them forever. That is not an excuse from trying or failing again. Like I said, no one is perfect. Everyone has their mistakes and their failures. That shouldn’t keep you from trying again. Another Michael Jordan quote (last one, seriously!), “I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” The reason why there are those who succeed is because they have failed over and over again and again, time and time again. That is how people succeed. Not because of special super powers or cheating (cheating is for losers!). The successful ones in life make mistakes and learn from them. That’s why they are successful. People like Michael Jordan, or Martin Luther King Jr. are popular and successful because of perseverance, dedication, and trying again and again. MLK protested over and over again for African American rights. He didn’t give up when he went to jail, or when his house went up in flames. He kept on aiming high until he reached his target. We should all learn that no matter what obstacle we face, no matter what mistakes we make or the failures we experience, we must always keep trying until we get it right. And “don’t [ever] be afraid to fail. Be afraid of NOT to try.”
ReplyDelete“Don't Be Afraid to Fail. Be afraid NOT to try” What does that mean? I was trying to figure it out for a few minutes, then it came to me. To me, this quote is very meaningful. You should never be afraid to fail. If you fail, you should always get back up, and try again. When you try again, and fail, it’s OK. “Be afraid NOT to try” means that if you don't try, you will not learn. After failing,you should learn. Don’t be afraid to learn! In life I’ve failed many times, and I kept on failing at times. I always got up and learned from it. One time, I didn’t try again, I didn’t try to learn from my own mistakes, there were consequences. If I never tried to perform on stage again, I would’ve still had stage fright. This is a great quote. My father always says that this is a characteristic of a person with a growth mindset. These people always want a challenge, just like everyone in G&T. We always want to learn from our mistakes.
ReplyDeleteAnother quote that is similar to this is, “Fail fast, Succeed Sooner.” this is very self explanatory. Failing is great, as long as you learn from it. Everyone should take their failures as motivation to learn and move on. Succeeding sooner is important. After you Fail, TRY to succeed much sooner. For example, I had almost drowned, but fortunately my cousin had saved me. I took that as inspiration to learn swimming, and save others just like me. You should also try self-teaching. That’s what I did with swimming. When you are self teaching yourself because you want to, that shows a growth mindset. People with a Fixed mindset would just give up on learning to swim, and stay in the corner while everyone is enjoying their time. You can develop a phobia later. (you already have a phobia, it’s alright to not do it.) You should always try to have a growth mindset. These quotes tell us to try harder after failing. After trying multiple times, you will succeed. You should never think that making mistakes is bad. Never be afraid to fail. These quotes can affect our whole life. If you fail a big test, try again and again until you succeed. When you get a bad grade on a test, try over and over again until you succeed.
Nowadays, many people, including me sometimes can’t handle failure. Many think that if you fail,you committed a big crime. Before I heard any of these quotes,or about this topic (that was about 1.5 years ago) Some people would start to make a fit about what happened, and don’t accept that this was their mistake. Those people don’t want to learn from it. Failure is the best way to learn. It makes you aggravated sometimes, and you don’t want to Fail again. That motivates you to do even better the next. “Don't Be Afraid to Fail. Be afraid NOT to try”
WOW! YOU guys and gals really get your thinking juices flowing by reading and writing about these quotes. I love it!
ReplyDeleteThis quote actually makes a lot of sense. It means to me exactly what it sounds like, and for the whole part (Notice I’m not saying most part) it’s true as well. People don’t realize sometimes, its best to try new things, and progress in them. It’s not called pro when you do something you know how to do. Its called pro when you manage to do something new, that you have never done before, in a presentable way. If you afraid to fail, it is pretty much self explanatory that you aren’t going to try new things. I know every single person has a talent, and not only one but multiple things. But the point here is, if you stop trying, and stop believing there is no way you will accomplish anything that you don’t know how to do. We are all capable of being renaissance men and women and making a change in the world and society around us. The one word that comes to mind when I read his quote is persevere. There are so many challenges coming up ahead of you. Your SATs, ACTs, College Placement Test, your College Entrance Test, all of these tests and all the discoveries you will make on your road there. But you know when you will get there? The answer? When you try new things. You should be afraid that you will give into something you learned in first grade, and not do something new, something interesting, or something challenging. Don’t run away from all those interests you have all the way in the middle of your heart. Dream big. Achieve those dreams. All because you chose to try something new to you. The part I like about this quote is the part that said to not be afraid to fail. I thinks it very apparent that many people choose to stick back because they fear failing. When someone does that, it means to me that they are abandoning so many things inside them waiting ready to shine just because they are scared that they might fail this challenge ahead of them. In a way, if you think about it, it’ is not a long time where you meet the same challenge you avoided back again. Sometimes, it will never come back to you and keep you from accomplishing things successfully, your way. When you overcome a challenge, you know that wonderful feeling you get? You can get that feeling everytime. Professional basketball player Michael Jordan says “You miss 99 % of the shots you don’t take” I find this very true. If you don’t try something the first time it comes to you, it might never come back. Perfect example of what happens when you don’t try something new. You will end up getting a chance for it, and finally miss out. What a bummer! It’s like having a whole summer break ahead of you, and then deciding, you have never went to London before, so you should cancel your trip this year because you didn’t ever go. You’re never going to get anything, because everything has a first time. That’s l have for now ,folks!
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