personal development on Fear of Failure

A brother asked Abba Sisoes, “What shall I do, abba, for I have fallen?” The old man said, “Get up again.” The brother said, “I have got up again, but I have fallen again.” The old man said, “Get up a...

What are blind spots? They are areas in which people continually fail to see themselves or their situation realistically.

In an essay on friendship, the renowned poet Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, “My entire success, such as it is, is composed of particular failures.” There’s a deep truth in that line—one many of us need to...

Our business in the world is not to succeed to but to continue to fail in good spirits.

Our greatest fear should not be of failure, but of succeeding at something that doesn’t really matter.

It is more important that you should know about the reverses than about the successes of the war. We shall have all eternity to celebrate the victories, but we have only the few hours before sunset in...