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The modern tendency is to think in terms of success, and that is because money has become the standard for man. If a man gets a job which brings him a good salary he is called a success in life. Those men who have plenty of money in the bank are looked up to as models of success. Conversely, those who have no money what-so-ever are looked down upon as failures and consequently treated with contempt. Probing this matter will convince us that failure and success are different sided of the same coin and that success is meaningless without failure. Going deeper, we will find that every failure is a stepping stone to success and that every failure is a lesson and not the end. Intelligent man knows this and so never thinks in terms of failure. Every success and every non-performance spurs them on greater effort and even when they have succeeded they do not stop, but go on to still greater effort.
The story of King Bruce is a very good example of this saying. He lost a battle and his enemies took his kingdom. The king wanted to fight the enemies and organized a very large army. He fight against his enemies and lost. This happened eight times and the eighth time he lost very heavily and so he was hiding in a cave. He was very dejected and disheartened and then he saw a spider trying to build a web. The spider could not link the web at a particular point and he tried many number of times and finally built it successfully. On looking at this, the king thought, ‘If a spider can try so many times, I can also do it’. He immediately started organizing an empire and finally he won.
Even in Science inventions and discoveries do not happen overnight. Thomas Alva Edison was a very great inventor and he tried more than thousand times to make a filament bulb. On knowing this a reporter asked him whether Edison wasted his times in his efforts. Edison said, ‘No I just found thousand ways in which I could not make the filament bulb.’”