Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity. – Gary Ryan Blair

Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions – of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas. – James M. Baldwin

You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which clicks. – Florence Scovel Shinn

However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow