Rollo May Quotes

Never stop because you are afraid - you are never so likely to be wrong.

The topic of leadership is a touchy one. A lot of leaders fail because they don't have the bravery to touch that nerve or strike that chord. Throughout my years, I haven't had that fear.

Risk isn't a word in my vocabulary. It's my very existence.

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

Sometimes you're going to be inexperienced, naive, untested, and totally right. And then, in those moments, you have to make a choice: is this a time to speak up, or hang back?

Some people may have their doubts about me. But I feel like there's no shot too hard for me to take.

Imagine the choices you'd make if you had no fear-of falling, of losing, of being alone, of disapproval.

It may be no less dangerous to claim, on certain occasions, too little than too much. There is something captivating in spirit and intrepidity, to which we often yield as to a resistless power; nor can we often yield as to a resistless power; nor can he reasonably expect the confidence of others who too apparently distrusts himself.

It is only through timidity that states are lost.

If you're afraid of everything out there, you quit going out there.

We may have doubts, but we control the present. We always have the choice to move forward with hope and confidence.

Lyndon Johnson rose above the doubt and fear to hold this Nation on course until we rediscovered our faith in ourselves.

Everyone is coming from a place of fear and my feeling is stop being so afraid. If something doesn't work then that's fine at least then you know it doesn't work. Don't worry so much about it not working, you can always fix that.

I have never known what to tell anybody. Except that it is better to do something than nothing, even if the cost is great.

Courage and confidence are what decision making is all about.

The leader who refuses to move until the fear is gone will never move. Consequently, he will never lead.

When you're fearless, you take more risks because you're less conscious of failure or what can go wrong.

With age, you see people fail more. You see yourself fail more. How do you keep that fearlessness of a kid? You keep going. Luckily, I'm not afraid to make a fool of myself.

I tend to do things that I'm very frightened of. That's what I do.

I'm not the type of person to live in fear. I think positively.

That's the whole key to anything: Don't be afraid to fail. And Bernie Mac is not afraid to fail.

Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

If, amid the multitude of contending counsel, you have hesitated and doubted; if, when a great measure suggested itself, you have shrunk from the vast responsibility, afraid to go forward lest you should go wrong, what wonder?

If I'm going to be a leader then I have to go places that other people are afraid to go to. That's what makes a leader. To be not afraid to step out and go over the frontline. To stare darkness right in the face.

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.