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There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure-all your life. -- John W. Gardner
In the second half of life, the questions become: 'Who, apart from the roles you play, are you? What does the soul ask of you? Do you have the wherewithal to shift course, to deconstruct your painfully achieved identity, risking failure, marginalization and loss of collective approval?' No small task. -- James Hollis
We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure-all your life. -- John W. Gardner
I don't have a fear factor. Well, not much of one. And I'm willing to risk quite a lot - as a comedian, you're always risking a lot. You're risking failure, especially if you're improvising and going on TV shows trying to make comedy out of thin air. That is quite a risky business. -- David Walliams
The only risk of failure is promotion. -- Scott Adams
Without exposure to potential failure, there is no risk. -- Brennan Manning
If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure. -- Dan Quayle
If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure. -- Dan Quayle
Being a pathfinder is to be willing to risk failure and still go on. -- Gail Sheehy
We know there is no such thing as freedom without the risk of failure. -- Rick Perry
Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure. -- Ferran Adria
We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures. -- James E. Burke
It's not about failure; it's about trying something and risking something for attaining your goal. -- Carol Alt
The exposed nature of life in the public square affects leaders' attitudes toward risk - and failure. -- Dee Dee Myers
When you're fearless, you take more risks because you're less conscious of failure or what can go wrong. -- Brett Ratner
One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure. -- John W. Gardner
Unwillingness to risk failure is always there, but it gets harder when you feel you have more to lose. -- Demi Moore
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being. -- Paul Tillich
You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize the future. -- Dr. An Wang
Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity. -- Gary Ryan Blair
In the future, financial firms of any type whose failure would pose a systemic risk must accept especially close regulatory scrutiny of their risk-taking. -- Ben Bernanke
Risk and failure is a part of our equation, and if you are seeing too little failure, you are actually probably not taking enough risks. -- Peter Barris
If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk. -- Rosalynn Carter
Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity. -- Gary Ryan Blair
As a society, we've become terrified of failure, but you can't grow without risking it. -- Bear Grylls
It's not about failure; it's about trying something and risking something for attaining your goal -- Carol Alt

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