I have a congenital aversion to failure.

“Loss aversion refers to the relative strength of two motives: we are driven more strongly to avoid losses than to achieve gains. A reference…

— Daniel Kahneman

And the funny thing is, I've always been an optimist - it's practically a congenital disorder with me.

— Molly Ivins

I don't generally talk about medical terms when I discuss my position as a disabled person. I take a social rather than medical approach…

— Stella Young

“Congenital disease can warp the heart with great variety. Valves can be sealed tight, missing parts—or absent altogether. Major vessels can be misplaced, narrowed,…

— G. Wayne Miller

I am a congenital optimist.

— Susan Collins

Lamon, that speech won't scour. It is a flat failure and the people are disappointed.

— Abraham Lincoln

Most people have an aversion to risk, my college economics professor told me. Which means they have to be rewarded to take on that…

— Michael Arrington

The unattractive thing about chauvinism is not so much the aversion to other nations as the love of one's own.

— Karl Kraus

We must each learn to feel comfortable in our own uniqueness by rising above the fear of being wrong and the aversion to being…

— Iyanla Vanzant

In my schoolboy days I had no aversion to slavery. I was not aware there was anything wrong about it. No-one arraigned it in…

— Mark Twain

Value investing is risk aversion.

— Seth Klarman

One of the greatest inhibitions to the development of human potential is the aversion to effective practice.

— Douglas B. Reeves

The scorn men express for a male who does housework is exceeded only by their aversion to a woman who doesn't

— Penny Kome

Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to metaphysics. For if truth…

— David Hume