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Psychologists know that the fear of failure is often the product of a distorted view of events, caused by long-established beliefs. -Joseph A. LlardoThe most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.-Sir Humphrey DavyGood people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get verylittle wisdom from success, you know. -William Saroyan

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover whatwill do by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mista

ke never made a discovery. -Samuel SmilesYou don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there. -Edwin L.ColeA person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. -Albert EinsteinLearn to see in anothers calamity the ills which you should avoid. -Publius SyrusIt is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.-Charles F. KetteringWhen you make a mistake don t look back at it long. Take the reason of the thinginto your mind, and look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom . . . The pastcannot be changed. The future is yet in your power. -Hugh WhiteBetter be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own. -AesopIt is a good thing to learn caution by the misfortunes of others. -Publius SyrusReason is our soul s left hand, Faith her right,By these we reach divinity. -John Donne

We are twice armed if we fight with faith. -PlatoAbove the logic of the head is the feeling in the heart. -RouseauFaith is beyond the reach or realm of reason. The moral basis for religion mustbe absolute, not derived from questionable sense experience or precarious inference, not corrupted by the admixture of corruptible reason. -KantPainting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion. -Vincent van GoghMeanwhile we must work earnestly in the best light He (God) gives us, trusting that so working still conduces to the great ends he ordains. -Abraham LincolnConviction of things merely hoped for. -Larry BurkettDon t defy the diagnosis, try to defy the verdict. -Norman CousinsFaith attracts the positive. Fear attracts the negative. -Ed ColeFor without risk there is no faith, and the greater the risk, the greater the fa

ith. -Soren KierkegaardThe spiritual is the parent of the practical. -Thomas CarlyleSorrow looks back, worry looks around, faith looks up. -UnknownThey conquer who believe they can. -Ralph Waldo EmersonThese then are my last words to you: Be not afraid of life. Believe that life isworth living, and your belief will help create the fact. -William JamesFaith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other. -Blaise PascalTo live by faith is a far surer and happier thing than to live by feelings or byworks. The branch, by living in the vine, lives a better life than it would live by itself, even if it were possible for it to live at all apart from the stem.

-Charles H. SpurgeonThere is a Power whose care/ Teaches thy way along that pathless coast. -WilliamCullen Bryant

One day the faithful will have it all. -Neal A. MaxwellFashion is the deity every one worships in this country, and from the highest tothe lowest, you must submit. -Abigail AdamsThe gods thought otherwise. -VirgilNothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. -Marie CurieWe must travel in the direction of our fear. -John BerrymanThe only thing we have to fear is fear itself--nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. -Franklin Delano RooseveltNo passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasonin

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g as fear. -Edmund BurkeFear always springs from ignorance. -Ralph Waldo EmersonTerror . . . will always be successful unless opposed by equal terror. -Adolf HitlerHow very little can be done under the spirit of fear. -Florence NightingaleFear has many eyes and can see things underground. -Miguel de CervantesThe great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain. -LordByron(Men think) they are led on by what they see, when in truth they are driven on by what they feel, by instincts of whose operation they are half the time unconscious. -SchopenhauerTo feel we must take the risk, the risk of pain, our pain. We must take the risk, the risk of criticism even of rejection. But the reward is to be alive. -Gerry SpenceTo feel is to live. Use words that convey feeling. Dogs feel love and hate. -Gerry SpenceWhen once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be. -Henry VanDykeAbraham Lincoln s principle for greatness can be adopted by nearly all. This washis rule: whatsoever he had to do at all, he put his whole mind into it and held it all there until that was done. That makes men great almost anywhere. -Russell H. ConwellDistractions destroy focus. -Larry Barker

To do two things at once is to do neither. -Publius SyrusThe field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time. Get into a fist fight, put your mind on the strategy of the fight, and you will not feel the other fellow s punches. -Antoine de Saint-ExuperyOrison Swett Marden asked Thomas Edison in an interview: "What do you think is the first requisite for success in your field, or any other?" Edison replied, "The ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantlywithout growing weary." -Little Visits with Great AmericansLord Ronald said nothing; he flung himself from the room, flung himself upon hishorse and rode madly off in all directions." -Stephen LeacockThe only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him. -UnknownKnowledge which is acquired under compunction has no hold on the mind. -Plato

Don t fight forces; use them. -Buckminster FullerThe best way to predict the future is to create it. -Peter F. DruckerA man of intelligence will, by foresight, sets straight most everything in his life. -Democritus