If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.
Authors by the hundreds can tell you stories by the thousands of those rejection slips before they found a publisher who was willing to 'gamble' on an unknown.
A goal properly set is halfway reached.
A positive attitude will have positive results because attitudes are contagious.
Is your fear of failure greater than your desire to succeed?
You don't drown by falling in water. You only drown if you stay there.