- Don't Be Afraid To Fail
- You've failed many times,
- although you may not remember.
- You fell down the first time
- you tried to walk.
- You almost drowned the first time
- you tried to swim, didn't you?
- Did you hit the ball the first time
- you swung a bat?
- Heavy hitters,
- the ones who hit the most home runs,
- also strike out a lot.
- R.H. Macy failed seven times
- before his store in New York caught on.
- English novelist John Creasy
- 753 rejection slips
- before he published
- 564 books.
- Babe Ruth struck out
- 1,330 times,
- but he also hit
- 714 home runs.
- Don't worry about failure.
- Worry about the chances you miss
- when you don't even try.
Until now, December 2003, I did not know the author. Then Randy Kerker emailed me saying that he was the author of "Don't Be Afraid to Fail". Thanks, Randy!