Francis ChanOur greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.
About This Quote
A person who fails in one area of their life will often be afraid to succeed in another. So they fail at their new venture and fail again. They continue to fail until they give up on trying. This is a bad mindset because the only thing that truly matters is whether you did your best.
If you do a good job, you did all you could do. If you did a bad job, then that’s all there is to it.
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