Life = Risk

Dismissed from drama school with a note that said, "Wasting her time, she's too shy to put her best foot forward" - Lucille Ball

Turned down by the Decca recording company who said, "We don't like their sound and guitar music is on their way out" - The Beatles

A failed soldier, farmer, and real-estate agent, at 38 years old, went to work for his father as a handy man - Ulysses S. Grant

Cut from the high school basketball team, he went home, locked himself in his room and cried - Michael Jordan

A teacher told him he was too stupid to learn anything, and that he should go into a field where he might succeed by virtue of his pleasant personality - Thomas Edison

Fired from a newspaper because he lacked imagination and had no original ideas - Walt Disney

His fiance died, he failed in business twice. He had a nervous breakdown and he was defeated in eight elections - Abraham Lincon

If you've never failed .. You've never lived !