“Failure is the foundation of success, and the means by which it is achieved”
- Lao Tzu -
2007-08-15 09:52:59 · 26 answers · asked by Shinkirou Hasukage 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
That is 100% correct. If we succeed at something, it is good. If we fail at something, it is also good, because we learn from the experience and therefore are more likely to succeed in future.
In a sense, failure IS success, so we should never truly be sorry for our mistakes.
What do you think of this one?
You cannot tackle a raging blaze with a lit match.
It means that in order to counteract something effectively, you would not use the same means. If somebody is shouting at you, do not shout back, it makes it worse. If somebody hates you, love them. When somebody tries to kill you, lay down. It is THEM that will suffer more.
May peace follow your life throughout its entirety.
2007-08-15 10:03:20 · answer #1 · answered by ? 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Very True.
Here's another one
"Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm."
Everybody failes before they have success.
Sam Walton, Walt Disney, Martin Luther King jr., and so many others, the list goes on and on.. Before you can become successful you must learn from failure. Everyone fails at something in their life and if they learn from that and go back and make it better for the next time, then they have a better chance at success. Always learn from your mistakes.
God Bless
2007-08-15 17:02:04 · answer #2 · answered by m 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't agree, just some pep talk to make people feel better who screw up all the time. True wisdom is to understand something without breaking it.
Hope is the foundation of success. Faith is the means by which it is achieved.
2007-08-15 17:18:45 · answer #3 · answered by joezen777 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sure yes, because if any body don't fail and fail and fail then nobody can have the successive results. And if you ask why then I will just till you that the experience that will ensure you the successive results is the depend on how many faults you have it before in your life, but there is important thing to know that if there is no learning from the fault then there is no success.
2007-08-15 17:03:18 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yeah I think that is true. In order to go forward you have to realize you walked away from something to begin with, Failure is the only way we can make progress, we have to live through trial and error until we've factored out our life equation correctly.
We learn from our mistakes, and we pick ourselves up when we fall and try it a different way. We realize the mistake we made, and take that into consideration when we try again. Rome was no conquered in a day, it took countless decades of error until people with nothing took everything from those that had it all.
2007-08-15 17:01:50 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Actually nope.
“Failure can become the foundation of success, and the means by which it is achieved”
This way makes more sense
2007-08-15 16:59:33 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
There is no answer to this question...
Lao Tzu was not a fool...He was a wise man and what "wise" men say is always true.
2007-08-16 14:42:12 · answer #7 · answered by bakhan 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe this to be very true. Failure is from one success of trying and when we fail, it's like we didn't expect it. I think that it's like another success for the surprise of not succeeding in the first place.
2007-08-15 16:57:25 · answer #8 · answered by Argent 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I call myself somewhat of a philospher and I believe that that qoutation is correct. No one is perfect and even by failure we suceed. We suceed by gaining knowledge that we normally wouldn't ever gain otherwise. We become better people by seeing the other side of the coin. We can better see what or what not to do.
2007-08-15 17:06:48 · answer #9 · answered by Aintitthetruth 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Or failure is success turned inside out.
Or to be more accurate success is failure turned inside out.
2007-08-15 17:00:24 · answer #10 · answered by The Best 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋