Failure sometimes is the option, and may at times be inevitable...but it's NOT the End

Plastered on walls, doors, plaques, and even book covers you see the saying, "Failure is Not an Option".  How contradictory is this communication, when students, teachers, administrators, schools, and school systems alike receive a failing grade based on a snapshot of progress.  Here are some suggestions to amending this overused slogan:

• "Success is a Process"
• "Success is a Journey, and sometimes the pitfalls of Failure are at the forks in the road; Navigate wisely"
• "Success is the Quotient when Diligence and Hard Work are your Dividend and Divisor"
• "Success is the Sum when ___ and ___ are the Addends"
• "Success is the Product when _____ and ________ are the Factors"
• "The only real failure in life is the failure to try"