Good and quiet do not connote weakness.

Failure gives the bald hairs; equips the novice with experience. The learner, sooner or later, becomes a teacher by it.

That failure serves a purpose!

Things are happening out there. Don’t waste your life in wishful thinking. Get out of your cocoon and go make a name for yourself. Life is too short to be wasted in oblivion.

All of us are in the manufacturing industry - manufacturing either our own happiness or unhappiness.

If your failure is not a lesson, it's indeed a failure.