Do not dread failure: Fear, not failure is the biggest enemy of success. Failure could mean a lot of things. It could mean education as Thomas Edison said. It could be success in disguise. It could mean that your effort to be successful is not enough. On the other hand, it could mean that success does not befit you. Whichever way, it depends on how you see and take failure, but fear could only mean one thing: the faith that you will fail. If you believe that you will fail, then you are already a failure before you actually begin to fail. One of the greatest lesson I learnt as a child is that the more I am afraid of making mistakes, the more mistakes I actually make. This is so, because by being fearful, I made the mistake I am yet to make come into reality. Like fire, failure can be a faithful servant and it can also act as a cruel master. If you dread failure, it acts as a cruel master and suppress you so that you will never rise but if you dare failure, it becomes a faithful servant that is capable of working out your success. Many people dread failure because nobody wants to associate with failures but everybody wants to be seen around with people that are successful. When you fail, people laugh at you. This could discourage you from trying again but do not dread failure because you don't want to fail, only dread failure beacuse you don't want to be a failure. You are not a failure because you fail, you only become a failure if you refuse to get up after you are knock down for the fear that you will fall again. Robert Schuller states, "the people who are really failures are the people who set their standards so low, keep the bar at such a safe level, that they never run the risk of failure." no one becomes somebody in life without first passing through something. An iron does not become a steel without first passing through a furnace. "Don't be afraid to fail. Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure. If you're not failing, you're not growing." - H. Stanley Judo. "Remember, there are two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you an opportunity to try a new approach... Most people think of success and failure as opposites, but they are actually both products of same process." - Roger Von Oech.