Neil Strauss Quotes

For a long time, I didn't give anything my all. I was so afraid that I'd be crap, so I held myself back.

The only person holding you back is you.

People are afraid to pursue their most important dreams, because they feel that they don't deserve them, or that they'll be unable to achieve them.

Stop sharing your dreams with people who try to hold you back, even if they're your parents.

Many of us have unconsciously erected barriers to protect ourselves from failing or succeeding. We may think we're protecting ourselves by denying our creative impulses, but all we're doing is burying our authentic selves alive.

I sabotage myself for fear of what my bigness could do.

Feeling lost? Take a dream and convert it into small goals, then start taking the steps to hit those goals.

You might occasionally feel that some people are standing in the way and slowing your progress, but in reality the biggest person standing in your way is you. Others can stop you temporarily -- you are the only one who can do it permanently.

Your ability will grow to match your dreams.

The older I've gotten, I really do feel that it's a lack of trust that I see in people and that's why they don't follow their dreams - because they don't trust anything.

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

Most people are fast to stop you before you get started but hesitate to get in the way if you're moving.

Doing battle with themselves that way, every day, all the time and sometimes it sucks, but other times it results in people making sort of a dream comprehensible to someone else.

There are two reasons why people fail. One is irresponsibility. The second is fear.

The primary reason for underachievement and failure is that the great majority of people don't decide to be successful.

There's no better satisfaction than watching the people around you, who have worked day and night to get something right, realising the dream.

Risks are a measure of people. People who won't take them are trying to preserve what they have. People who do take them often end up having more.

Fear of Failure becomes Fear of Success for those who Never Try Anything New.

People residing within the cult of average don’t like to see others rise. It threatens their security, and spotlights their low self-worth. Go for great, no matter what they say.

You hear people say: "One day, when I'm in a good position I can make my passion project." I've seen a lot of people get into that position and not make it.

Moving to London was a culture shock, but in a really good way. I'm more aware now, and I'm less trusting of people in the music industry.

The supreme object of life is to live. Few people live. It is true life only to realize one's own perfection, to make one's every dream a reality.

Our strength is in our dreams, and those who do not dare to dream damn themselves.

You never lose a dream, it just incubates as a hobby.

You can be hard on people as long as you're just as hard on yourself.