I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come.
Michael JordanRead
Failure builds muscle, _x000D_ determination, and dreams.
Interpretation
Failure is essential for growth and achieving our dreams.
Michael Jordan's quote highlights the idea that failure is not the end but rather a vital component of success. It suggests that facing setbacks strengthens our determination and enhances our aspirations, ultimately leading us toward our goals.
In practice
In a motivational speech about perseverance during a sports event.
I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come.
There are no shortcuts. I approached practices the same way I approached games. You can't turn it on and off like a faucet. I couldn't dog it during practice and then, when I needed that extra push late in the game, expect it to be there. Very few people get anywhere by taking shortcuts.
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
Don't be like me. Be better than me. That's the goal.
Success isn't something you chase. It's something you have to put forth the effort for constantly. Then maybe it'll come when you least expect it. Most people don't understand that.
One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.
I had learned, from years of experience with men, that when a man really desires a thing so deeply that he is willing to stake his entire future on a single turn of the wheel in order to get it, he is sure to win.
People think I'm disciplined. It is not discipline. It is devotion. There is a great difference.
I don't think you can create anything interesting from a comfort zone. You have to work from a place of fear and failure.
Failure is not the outcome - failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail.
One by one I have seen obstacles removed, errors corrected, prejudices softened, proscriptions relinquished, and my people advancing in all the elements that go to make up the sum of the general welfare. And I remember that God reigns in eternity, and that whatever delays, whatever disappointments and discouragements may come, truth, justice, liberty and humanity will ultimately prevail.
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