If I Fail ...

If I fail, let it not be for FEAR OF FAILURE or of FALLING SHORT OF PERFECTION. 

If I fail, let it not be for a lack of PRESENCE … 

            ......... of PURPOSE; 

            ......... of VISION  

            ……. of COURAGE /\ of CONFIDENCE; 

            ……. of BELIEF IN MYSELF /\ in ULTIMATE SURMOUNTABILITY 

            ......... of CARING  

            ……. of INITIATIVE; 

            ......... of PLANNING /\ of PREPARATION;

            ......... of KNOWLEDGE &UNDERSTANDING; 

            ......... of EXPERIENCE /\ of WISDOM /\ of MENTORING; 

            ......... of TIME; 

            ......... of EFFORT;

            ......... of CREATIVE ENTERPRISE; 

            ......... of PERSISTENCE; 

            ……. of willingness to RISK /\ willingness to SACRIFICE; 

            ......... of ENGAGEMENT of SIGNIFICANT OTHERS; 

            ......... of  “FEELING LIKE DOING IT”.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

If I fail at any one thing ^__ or at ten or a hundred or a thousand ^__

let it be wisdom’s quarry for much greater success to come. 
Quartermaster


“A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.”             

 Jonathan Swift