Gordon Parks Quotes

I'm always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I'm going to get up in the morning.

Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.

I have self-doubt. I have insecurity. I have fear of failure. I have nights when I show up at the arena and I'm like, 'My back hurts, my feet hurt, my knees hurt. I don't have it. I just want to chill.' We all have self-doubt. You don't deny it, but you also don't capitulate to it. You embrace it.

In taking stock of ourselves, we should not forget that fear plays a large part in the drama of failure. That is the first thing to be dropped. Fear is a mental deficiency susceptible of correction, if taken in hand before it gains an ascendency over us. Fear comes with the thought of failure.

I was terrified to go solo. It's lonely doing it by myself. But I wanted to challenge myself.

I'm absolutely scared and I absolutely have reservations, but sometimes you need to find that deep down in you to bring out the best performance of yourself, to bring out the best version of yourself, but yep I'm nervous and I'm scared.

I think everyone shares a fear of failure - that you're only as good as your most recent collection. That's definitely a fear, but it's a fear that fuels me, that makes me want to work harder, that makes me take on more challenges.

I think my whole life, because of where I came from, I had a fear of failure.

It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.

I am totally fearless! Well, of course, I'm not totally fearless. I worry constantly and obsess over things, but I just don't let fear stand in the way of doing something that I really want to do.

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.

If you want your dream more than you have to have people's affirmation, that's how you break through your border bullies.

I've probably earned the right to screw up a few times. I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.

All serious daring starts from within.

You have to let fear go. Another lesson is you just have to believe in yourself; you just have to. There's no way around it. No matter how things are stacked against you, you just have to every time.

I have had fear in the past, yes. I've learned to fight it. But I still have my moments. I just have to remind myself that fear is all within your mind, and that you're only holding yourself back when you give in to it. Even fear of success can be scary.

We all have anxiety about things. We all have little insecurities, but eventually you have to face your fears if you want to be successful, and everybody has some fear of failure.

Fear of failure is caused by lack of self-esteem and confidence. Dealing with fear is the key to super success.

The one who intimidates me is myself. I'm scared to fail. That is the thing that makes me the most afraid, to fail. Just to think that I can do a mistake and lose the fight scares me, so that is why I work out a lot: to bring more chance to my size and less chance to my opponent.

I don't have any fear of failure whatsoever. I used to, and I told myself I wouldn't allow myself to anymore.

My advice is don't keep asking yourself if you can do something. Just get out there and do it. You can really surprise yourself.

I'm not scared of anything in particular, but I am motivated by a fear of failure as opposed to a need to succeed.

Some people need to stay at the top. They are afraid to re-start from zero because they fear the critics.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.

Unwillingness to risk failure is always there, but it gets harder when you feel you have more to lose.