“Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.”

Denis Waitley, Speaker & Author

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How does that sound? Comforting? Indeed.
Besides, failure is a verb, not a noun. It is something that we do (action) and not something that we are (noun).

• We tried, we did it and we “failed”;
• We failed (this time), but we are not “failure”
• We tried again and we failed, still we are not “failure”

Having failed means we can get up and do it again, differently. Sometimes it takes a few failed attempts before we get anything right. Therefore, allow no one to label us as “failure” while we are in the process of getting closer to our goals.

We are just “failing”…. we are NOT “failure”.

It is only when we stop trying, refusing to put more effort…. by then we are “hopelessly defeated”. We become “failure”, by choice (of not wanting to put in any more effort in the endeavour concerned)

The question is:

Have you just “failed” (i.e. will do it again differently...), or are you a “failure” (i.e. no more trying, end of story)?