Jon Stewart Quotes

Every time I've ever gotten close to being successful, I've found some way to screw it up.

Most of us are afraid of our success, that we will actually be great.

We are more afraid of excellence than of failure.

Fear is an inhibitor that has kept more people from fulfilling their destiny than any other one emotion.

My biggest enemy for the longest time was my head. When I first became successful, it made me anxious because I was overthinking everything, and you hear so many 'fail' stories.

You have people that know they have the talent, but sometimes they get scared when success is in their face.

Fear of success is one of the new fears I've heard about lately. And I think its definitely a sign that we're running out of fears. A person suffering from fear of success is scraping the bottom of the fear barrel.

Fear of failure is a far worse condition than failure itself, because it kills off possibilities.

The number one cause of failure in this country is the fear of failure.

My worst habit is my fear & my destructive rationalizing.

We're our own worst enemy. You doubt yourself more than anybody else ever will. If you can get past that, you can be successful.

I don't like to say anything good. I feel like I'll jinx myself.

Show business is, essentially, a fear-based industry.

I have a tendency to sabotage relationships; I have a tendency to sabotage everything. Fear of success, fear of failure, fear of being afraid. Useless, good-for-nothing thoughts.

It's when we become afraid of everything and worried about everything that you are never going to reach your highest potential.

I still assume that, any day, I'm going to be exposed as a fraud. That, like I once heard Gene Hackman say, the acting police are going to burst in and take away my card.

Fear comes in two packages fear of failure, and sometimes, fear of success.

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

People think I should be a success, but I'm afraid of it.

I play with a fear of letting people down. That's what motivates me.

I'm learning to cope and not deny my own success, but I still think it's not happening a lot. I get nervous, and I am capable of doing something to blow it on purpose. A lot of actors have that problem.

Every time I do something or release something or announce a new project, there's always that fear that it won't go well.

When I'm playing timid and afraid to make a mistake, then I'm not going to play well.

I'm too neurotic to ever feel good. If I ever felt good, I think something horrible would happen.