Acceptance of your less-than-successful ventures (otherwise known as failures) is strength. There is really no such thing as failure – you simply you create a result.  For instance, during one campaign I sent out 500 letters. The result was being ignored by 490 and rejected by the others. I didn’t fail 500 times -I learned a different way to succeed. I sent a “thank-you” note to the rejections, thanking them for having the courtesy to respond. One actually turned into a sale. Then I created a business-reply card and re-sent that to the other 490 and got a 33% response – and significant sales.