Psychologists know that the fear of failure is often the product of a distorted v iew of events, caused by long-established beliefs.

-Joseph A. Llardo The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures. -Sir Humphrey Davy Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know. -William Saroyan We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mista ke never made a discovery. -Samuel Smiles You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there. -Edwin L. Cole A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. -Albert Einstein Learn to see in anothers calamity the ills which you should avoid. -Publius Syru s It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world. -Charles F. Kettering When you make a mistake don t look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind, and look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom . . . The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power. -Hugh White Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own. -Aesop It is a good thing to learn caution by the misfortunes of others. -Publius Syru s Reason 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. -Plato Above the logic of the head is the feeling in the heart. -Rouseau Faith is beyond the reach or realm of reason. The moral basis for religion must be absolute, not derived from questionable sense experience or precarious infere nce, not corrupted by the admixture of corruptible reason. -Kant Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion. -Vinc ent van Gogh Meanwhile we must work earnestly in the best light He (God) gives us, trusting t hat so working still conduces to the great ends he ordains. -Abraham Lincoln Conviction of things merely hoped for. -Larry Burkett Don t defy the diagnosis, try to defy the verdict. -Norman Cousins Faith attracts the positive. Fear attracts the negative. -Ed Cole For without risk there is no faith, and the greater the risk, the greater the fa ith. -Soren Kierkegaard The spiritual is the parent of the practical. -Thomas Carlyle Sorrow looks back, worry looks around, faith looks up. -Unknown They conquer who believe they can. -Ralph Waldo Emerson These then are my last words to you: Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact. -William James Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other. -Blaise Pascal To live by faith is a far surer and happier thing than to live by feelings or by works. The branch, by living in the vine, lives a better life than it would liv e by itself, even if it were possible for it to live at all apart from the stem. -Charles H. Spurgeon There is a Power whose care/ Teaches thy way along that pathless coast. -William Cullen Bryant One day the faithful will have it all. -Neal A. Maxwell Fashion is the deity every one worships in this country, and from the highest to the lowest, you must submit. -Abigail Adams The gods thought otherwise. -Virgil Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. -Marie Curie We must travel in the direction of our fear. -John Berryman The only thing we have to fear is fear itself--nameless, unreasoning, unjustifie d terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. -Frank lin Delano Roosevelt No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasonin

g as fear. -Edmund Burke Fear always springs from ignorance. -Ralph Waldo Emerson Terror . . . will always be successful unless opposed by equal terror. -Adolf H itler How very little can be done under the spirit of fear. -Florence Nightingale Fear has many eyes and can see things underground. -Miguel de Cervantes The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain. -Lord Byron (Men think) they are led on by what they see, when in truth they are driven on b y what they feel, by instincts of whose operation they are half the time unconsc ious. -Schopenhauer To 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. -Gerr y Spence To feel is to live. Use words that convey feeling. Dogs feel love and hate. -Ge rry Spence When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes t urned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be. -Henry Van Dyke Abraham Lincoln s principle for greatness can be adopted by nearly all. This was his rule: whatsoever he had to do at all, he put his whole mind into it and hel d it all there until that was done. That makes men great almost anywhere. -Russ ell H. Conwell Distractions destroy focus. -Larry Barker To do two things at once is to do neither. -Publius Syrus The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time. Get i nto a fist fight, put your mind on the strategy of the fight, and you will not f eel the other fellow s punches. -Antoine de Saint-Exupery Orison Swett Marden asked Thomas Edison in an interview: "What do you think is t he first requisite for success in your field, or any other?" Edison replied, "Th e ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary." -Little Visits with Great Americans Lord Ronald said nothing; he flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions." -Stephen Leacock The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues w ith him. -Unknown Knowledge which is acquired under compunction has no hold on the mind. -Plato Don t fight forces; use them. -Buckminster Fuller The best way to predict the future is to create it. -Peter F. Drucker A man of intelligence will, by foresight, sets straight most everything in his l ife. -Democritus