Quotations Relating to Failures (Sep 2007)

Listen to what the different wise men say about failures and you will start to truely appreciate the meaning of failures:
1) Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal - Mike Ditka
2) You always pass failure on the way to success - Mickey Rooney
3) Failure is the child of poor planning and bad advice
4) If you want to succeed faster, double your rate of failure
5) You have not failed. You simply have not yet succeeded
6) You can always tell a failure by the way he criticizes success
7) A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success - Doug Larson
8) Failure is the path of least persistence. Success is simply a matter of persistence
9) Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough - Og Mandino
10) Success is being able to go from failure to failure without losing the enthusiasm - Winston Churchill
11) A failure is a person who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience
12) Our destiny is the result of the paths we have taken or chosen when we encounter failures
13) Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up - Thomas Edison
14) Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day - Jim Rohn

If we as parents of children with ADHD can appreciate the above enlightening & motivational quotations about failures, we should be able help our children better cope with the problems (& repeated failures) that they often encounter.

Best Regards
Swee Huat.