Ian Thorpe Quotes

If you're so afraid of failure, you will never succeed. You have to take chances.

I am far more comfortable with failure than I ever will be with success.

It's O.K. to fail. Just keep putting yourself there. Once I started saying that and really believing that, over time, it just gradually gave me confidence.

I just want to teach people how to be comfortable. Stop being so scared.

I went to a motivational training course once, a course of self-discovery, and I found out after a week that my fear - it was not a fear of not being accepted - was a very violent fear of failure.

I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.

I'm not afraid to take a swing and miss.

Failure isn't an option. I've erased the word 'fear' from my vocabulary, and I think when you erase fear, you can't fail.

I guess this year I'm going to find out if I'm good enough or not. If I'm not, I don't care. I'll do something else, it's not a biggie.

High school students ought to seek out campus communities where they feel not only empowered to engage their talents, but also challenged to leave their comfort zones. The ability to embrace new opportunities emerges, in part, from a willingness to take risks and to fail.

Unless I try, I'm never really going to be at ease with myself.

Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.

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

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Don't be afraid to fall flat on your face.

I still get rejections - frequently - and my goal isn't to never fail, to never be turned down, but simply to succeed more often than I don't. And in order to do that, I have to constantly put myself out there, to judgment, critique, and rejection.

I've permitted myself to learn and to fail with some regularity. And that is probably the one thing I was given, and that I'm still grateful for.

Once you're able to look like an idiot and be OK with it, it opens up your potential.

I'm very comfortable with failure. I'm very comfortable being the guy who disappoints people.

Even when you have doubts, take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure - they can be turned into wisdom.

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.

I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down.

The sooner you accept the fact that you will have both successes and failures, the easier it will be to get your business and personal life headed in the right direction.

The best advice I can give you about falling is to never land.

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.