“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”
Author Truman Capote
Is failing at something a motivating factor that drives you to try even harder to achieve success? Or does failure after failure become so discouraging that it causes you to give up?
Written for Linda G. Hill’s One-Liner Wednesday prompt.
This, That, and the Other 
I find failure to usually be a stepping stone that ultimately takes me forward. They haven’t all gotten there yet, but I’m willing to wait,
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The push is when people say “See, you failed. You’ll never do it.” My response is always “You just wait and see,” but quietly. Failure is no more than learning, but someone mocking is enough to push me further than usual (competitive nature).
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Fall down seven times get up eight…. mockery drives us to kick ass and stand up victorious
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Fall down seven times get up eight…. as long as you bounce back and get up you’re not a failure.
I sometimes have to try try try again to get things to go the way they should… it doesnt mean failure if you keep trying.
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If you stay down… you fail. So get up one more time than you have fallen and it shall come to pass.
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Give up.. I know you don’t. Mrs Fandango is a prime example to prove your, let’s say, persistent nature.
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It depends. Sometimes I want to keep trying; other times I take the failure as a sign to start something new.
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It might not work one way, but there are always others to try.
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You know, I have a nasty habit of beating myself up for failing. It takes a while to dig out from under that so success can be tricky.
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I think, to an extent, we all do that. No one strives for failure.
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Depends on the goal. Sometimes failure helps me realize another path was better. I change my goal. Other times I fail and I am inspired to find another way to reach the original goal.
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For me, one serious failure often convinces me to try something different. I am NOT equally talented at everything and sometimes, I try something at which I’m really not very good. If I know already that this is not a strong area for me, I move on to something for which I have more ability. And I also don’t finish boring books, so there.
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I, too, can’t finish boring books. And generally, if I know I’m not good at something, I generally don’t even try to do it, since I know the odds are that I won’t succeed.
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A line with a ton of wisdom !!
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