The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.

Ken Lay has does and will continue to accept responsibility for the fall of Enron. He was the man at the controls. But failure is not a crime.

You accept failure as a possible outcome of some of the experiments. If you don't get failures you're not pushing hard enough on the objectives.

I went to a motivational training course once a course of self-discovery and I found out after a week that my fear - it was not a fear of not being accepted - was a very violent fear of failure.

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.

I understand the harsh feelings and sentiments from my opponents and their supporters because I myself have been defeated twice in my political life in the past and I understand very well it is hard to accept your own failure.

The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices every one of them are leading you inexorably to either success or failure however you define those terms.

Once you can accept failure you can have fun and success.

America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory if not practice the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or at least we used to.

Divorce is so common and accepted in America that beating myself up over it may sound ridiculous. But I was raised to believe that divorce wasn't an option to me divorce equaled failure. I wasn't able to change that equation until I found myself in the right relationship.