General Manager - Finance
8396 Points
Joined October 2008
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do."
Take calculated risks.
That is quite different from being rash.
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
Go back a little to leap further.
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
Half of the failures in life come from pulling one's horse when he is leaping.
Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.
Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success.
Failure is blindness to the strategic element in events; success is readiness for instant action when the opportune moment arrives.
They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.
We learn wisdom from failure much more than success. We often discover what we will do, by finding out what we will not do.