I hate how box-office failures are blamed on an actress yet I don't see a box-office failure blamed on men.
Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.
We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did then success would be no success and failure would be no failure to us.
The success and the failure are not my concern but His.
When you're fearless you take more risks because you're less conscious of failure or what can go wrong.
But if you have a solid walk with the Lord then you won't fear that failure.
As might be supposed my parents were quite poor but we somehow never seemed to lack anything we needed and I never saw a trace of discontent or a failure in cheerfulness over their lot in life as indeed over anything.
All I can do will only ever be a faint image of what I see and my success will always be less than my failure or perhaps equal to the failure.
The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. One might even think the paranoiac the more impressive of the two because he is sufficient unto himself and cannot be shaken by failure.
We do not know in most cases how far social failure and success are due to heredity and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.