Bill Murray Quotes

Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.

The moment you feel yourself hesitate on something you know you should do, count 5-4-3-2-1 to activate your prefrontal cortex and interrupt the habit of overthinking, self-doubt, and fear.

Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.

I've always been a firm believer in mind over matter. If you don't believe you can achieve, your body will start to believe this and you'll be stuck.

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 take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.

I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I'm doing.

I think you can do anything you put your mind to. I think your mind is the worst thing you can use as a reason to not do something.

As an outside; don't worry about failure, because failure will take care of itself. Focus on success.

It's all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.

When you feel as though you can't do something, the simple antidote is action: Begin doing it. Start the process, even if it's just a simple step, and don't stop at the beginning.

It's your own fear of failure that stops you from doing things.

If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done.

The best advice is to get on with it. I'm very prone to falling into depressions - not clinical, just 'can't be bothered.' It's such a waste of time.

If you do not believe you can do it then you have no chance at all.

Every job I take, within minutes I'm thinking, 'I can't do this.' I think it's what makes me work. People think I just swagger in and do it. But I doubt myself all the time. It's what pushes me, what makes me work harder. The older I get, the less I take for granted.

We always make so many excuses for ourselves - 'I'm so busy, I'm so tired, I don't want to do it.' You know? 'I'm passionate about it, but I'm not going to be the person that changes things.' Why do we tell ourselves that? We totally could. There are so many people who are making so much change just because they're passionate.

Just do your business and everything else will take care of itself.

Work finally begins when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly.

Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now.

Stop rationalizing, stop stewing. Get up out of your chair and start doing.

Doubt is only removed by action. If you're not working then that's where doubt comes in.

The word 'when' is so important for a people, for an individual! If an individual thinks he won't do it, he'll never do it. Even if he's highly intelligent, even if he has countless talents.

You just have to try before thinking that you can't.

The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.