Victoria Beckham Quotes

Mediocrity scares me. It's the fear of not being as good as you want to be. If you give over to that fear, it will sabotage you. As much as I can, I try to use that fear to guide me.

I want to keep pushing myself so I never feel settled. I don't really know if it's going to end up working. I'm stressed out most of the time.

Insecurity is a wonderful motivator.

I wish I could just relax sometimes and make some money, but I always feel like I have to prove some kind of big, profound point.

I've been in a hurry all my life. I've been in a hurry to succeed, and in a hurry to prove myself.

I think everyone shares a fear of failure - that you're only as good as your most recent collection. That's definitely a fear, but it's a fear that fuels me, that makes me want to work harder, that makes me take on more challenges.

I just want to do everything. I don't want to sound soppy or too cliched, but that's the way it is.

I still worry that I could be better. That's where standards come from, from not wanting to settle. The fear of not being good enough propels you.

The more I do, the more frightened I get. But that is essential. Otherwise why would I go on doing it?

My dad, we'll be talking about goals for the next year. He's like, 'I think you can be here,' and I look at him like he's cross-eyed, like, 'Are you serious? That's so far out of my reach.' Well, then I always end up achieving it.

Ambition is your inner voice that tells you you can and should strive to go beyond your circumstances or station in life.

A lot of my career and my drive and my passion and my striving to be better and better was built on insecurity.

We all have anxiety about things. We all have little insecurities, but eventually you have to face your fears if you want to be successful, and everybody has some fear of failure.

I'm just propelled by insecurity; that's what really leads me to want to do better.

We all have great aspirations for ourselves, but if you expect yourself to change the world tomorrow, then you're going to just drown yourself in anxiety and constant feelings of inadequacy.

Try not to worry about embarrassing yourself. That's a lifetime's task.

I wanted to be somebody, go somewhere, do something with my life.

A lot of what keeps me going is wanting to be better, thinking I'm not good enough.

The comfort zone takes our greatest aspirations and turns them into excuses for not bothering to aspire.

Fear drives you and makes you better.

Don’t get depressed about not being where you want to be. This nagging feeling of anxiety is actually called ambition. Ambition is your friend.

I have a level of fear going into every project, and that's what keeps me going.

Hollywood's built on insecurity. People are trying to prove things. And I probably have that. I probably do. Probably guilty of it, in a way.

I was a young kid from Long Island who wanted to do something large with her life, so I can relate to that.

I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me.