Failure Is the Pillar of Success- Robert Bruce Story

Failure Is the Pillar of Success Story: Robert Bruce was a famous king. His kingdom was invaded by his enemies. He fought bravely but lost. In order to save his life, he fled away from his kingdom and took shelter in a remote cave

Robert Bruce Story

Failure Is the Pillar of Success

Robert Bruce and the Spider Story: Robert Bruce was a famous king. His kingdom was invaded by his enemies. He fought several war. He fought bravely but lost. In order to save his life, he runs away from his kingdom and took shelter in a remote cave. The king was always in a pensive mood for his unhappy condition.

Once he was lying in the cave. Suddenly he saw a spider trying hard to reach the ceiling of the cave. Every time it try to reach the ceiling it rails. It failed again and again but did not lose heart. It failed six times.

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At last at the seventh, it became successful after many unsuccessful attempts. Seeing this, the king felt inspired to regain his kingdom. Then he started to collect and train his soldiers.

After collecting his soldiers and he attacked his enemies again. This time his enemies were defeated and he regained his lost kingdom.

Failure is the pillar of Success Story for HSC

It was long since Robert Bruce had been the king of Scotland. He was a good ruler and a brave warrior. He loved freedom. Scotland was then under the domination of England. Robert Bruce wanted to gain freedom of his country and fought against the English. He met the English soldiers in six battles one by one. But he was defeated each time.

At last, he lost heart and gave up the hope of success. Robert Bruce was dethroned. His enemies were trying to capture him. He became a fugitive. He roamed about in search of a shelter. He was moving in hills and forests. At last, he took shelter in a cave.

One day the king was lying in the cave. He thought and thought over his misfortune. At that moment, he found a spider trying to reach the ceiling. His attention was drawn to the repeated efforts of the spider. It was trying hard again and again. The spider crawled up a few inches and then dropped on its silken thread. But it did not give up its attempts. It tried again and again and on the seventh time, it became successful.

The sight of the spider encouraged the king. He thought the spider was disheartened in spite of repeated failure. But it went on trying again and again and at last, it came out successful. It raised a new hope in the king. He came out of the cave and began to gather forces.

In his last effort, he came out successful. Scotland was at last free. From the story, it is proved that patience and repeated endeavours can bring anyone success.