Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. : Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Great work needs persistent effort, and character forms through repeated failures.
- In plain terms
- Great work needs long effort and character grows from mistakes.
- What can you take from it?
- Persist through effort and mistakes to build character.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What failures have shaped you?
- How do you sustain effort?
Another view
Not all failures lead to character development.
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