Don't run from the possibility of failure

I learned the most effective leaders are willing to fail.  they seen to sense that it is better to attempt something great and fail than to not try at all.

"Service is rendered . . . by the man who . . . is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs, and comes short again and again, because there is not effort without error and shortcoming . . . If he fails, at least, at he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat, Teddy Roosevelt quoted by Berry C. Black, 62nd Chaplain U. S. Senate