Yet in truth, the fear of failure is the death knell of success. Falling down doesn't label a person a loser-staying down does, because failure is essentially a state of mind. True failure comes from deciding not to persist. It has been said that many of those who fail didn't realize how close they were to success when they gave up. Most often, success is years in the making- the result of having a clear vision coupled with determination and the fortitude developed from rising above obstacles that stood in the way of acclaim.
History is rife with examples.
Ray Kroc washed out of the real estate business and sold milkshake machines until he met the McDonald brothers and parlayed a single hamburger stand into the largest food service company in the world. In each of these cases and multitudes more, failure turned out to be the springboard to success. Dark days often force us to become more ingenious, to monitor and modify the ways we reached failure and reshape them into a new pattern of success. Inevitable Failure is as much a part of life as a flat tire, a computer crash or a broken romance. Because it is a function of activity, increased activity raises the odds for both failure and success.