Failure and Success

From the daily devotional God's Way Day by Day by Charles F. Stanley:

'The difference between those who have succeeded in spite of their failures and those who have allowed their failures to create low self-worth is this: those who have succeeded have not internalized their failures.

They have not thought less of themselves personally for having failed. They have refused to think of themselves as failures or worthless.

Failure is something they have done but not something they are. This is a huge difference.

In some cases, failures have spurred them on to try harder or to explore new avenues. Those who allow failure to be internalized often give up in their failures and refuse to take the risk of failing again.'

Winners learn the important lesson that failure is something you DO, not something you ARE.