Success is only sweet to those who ne’er succeeded. — Emily Dickinson

For my people have done two evil things: They have abandoned me—the fountain of living water. And they have dug for themselves cracked cisterns that can hold no water at all! (Jeremiah 2:13, NLT)

Our greatest fear should not be of failure, but of succeeding at something that doesn't really matter. ― D.L. Moody

This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success. (Joshua 1:8, ESV)

What do you benefit if you gain the whole world but lose your own soul? (Mark 8:34-36, NLT)