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Question: Is it better to fail than to not try at all!?
at work we have to read off some slides during meetings, your given the option to pass!. i pretty much suck but id rather do it then be afraid, does this make any senseWww@QuestionHome@Com


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YOu can't get better unless you try!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

By not trying you learn little or nothing, you gain nothing and by trying you may learn, may succeed and may fail!.!.!.!. I like these quotes on trying!.

"All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing!." - Edmund Burke

"God doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires that you try" Mother Teresa of Calcutta


"In the struggle against evil, there is no shame in defeat -- only in not fighting!." - Steven Hart


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Yes!. and its better to fail then to never try because when you try you at least learn from your mistakes!. While when you dont try you dont ever have a chance to succeed!. For example (not going to use names but will out nicknames) Trev** is a boy that sits next to me in science class that doesnt try to do anything and fails without trying at all!. while me i try my best and though i might not succeed i figure out what i did wrong and go on with life knowing what i did wrong and knowing what i can do next time to change my mistake!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Failure is a part of living it is how we learn to know that which is not failure!. We learn from the experience of living!. Maybe your failures are telling you some thing, are you listening!?

The uncertainties of life and the vicissitudes of existence do not in any manner contradict the concept of the universal sovereignty of God!. All evolutionary creature life is beset by certain inevitabilities!. Consider the following:

1!. Is courage--strength of character--desirable!? Then must man be reared in an environment which necessitates grappling with hardships and reacting to disappointments!.

2!. Is altruism--service of one's fellows--desirable!? Then must life experience provide for encountering situations of social inequality!.

3!. Is hope--the grandeur of trust--desirable!? Then human existence must constantly be confronted with insecurities and recurrent uncertainties!.

4!. Is faith--the supreme assertion of human thought--desirable!? Then must the mind of man find itself in that troublesome predicament where it ever knows less than it can believe!.

5!. Is the love of truth and the willingness to go wherever it leads, desirable!? Then must man grow up in a world where error is present and falsehood always possible!.

6!. Is idealism--the approaching concept of the divine--desirable!? Then must man struggle in an environment of relative goodness and beauty, surroundings stimulative of the irrepressible reach for better things!.

7!. Is loyalty--devotion to highest duty--desirable!? Then must man carry on amid the possibilities of betrayal and desertion!. The valor of devotion to duty consists in the implied danger of default!.

8!. Is unselfishness--the spirit of self-forgetfulness--desirable!? Then must mortal man live face to face with the incessant clamoring of an inescapable self for recognition and honor!. Man could not dynamically choose the divine life if there were no self-life to forsake!. Man could never lay saving hold on righteousness if there were no potential evil to exalt and differentiate the good by contrast!.

9!. Is pleasure--the satisfaction of happiness--desirable!? Then must man live in a world where the alternative of pain and the likelihood of suffering are ever-present experiential possibilities!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career!. I've lost almost 300 games!. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed!. I've failed over and over and over again in my life!. And that is why I succeed!."
--Michael Jordan

"You miss 100% of the shots you do not take!."
--GretzkyWww@QuestionHome@Com

absolutely!. you have potential and you might just need experience in order to make yourself better!. you could do a great job but you wouldn't have known that if you hadn't tried

if at first you don't succeed try, try againWww@QuestionHome@Com

a big YES!.
you wouldn't know if you can do it or not if you wouldn't try!.!.!.
and one more thing, can you live your life with what if's!? or an unaswered questions!? Www@QuestionHome@Com

Yes because you can always try all over again, plus you may end up doing a better job of things the second time around!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Yes as you will never have the experience of failing if you didn't try!.!.

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Trying is the first step towards failure!. Www@QuestionHome@Com