Saturday, August 9, 2008

Failure

Philocrities flags up JK Rowling's "commencement address" on the "benefits of failure" at Harvard.

Failure gave me an inner security that I had never attained by passing examinations. Failure taught me things about myself that I could have learned no other way. I discovered that I had a strong will, and more discipline than I had suspected; I also found out that I had friends whose value was truly above rubies.

I like this from Churchill:

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

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