Martha Beck Quotes

If you are afraid to fail, you will never succeed.

You have to be stronger than your fears if you want to get anything done in this life.

There is no impossibility to him who stands prepared to conquer every hazard. The fearful are the failing.

Giving up is the only sure way to fail.

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.

The people who are the most successful in life are not stopped by fear.

The message I got from my father was that life is hard, but you just don't quit. I am grateful that I didn't let fear get the best of me. It only holds you back from possibilities and greatness. You've got to kick fear to the side, because the payoff is huge.

Don't let fear stop you. Don't give up because you are paralyzed by insecurity or overwhelmed by the odds, because in giving up, you give up hope. Understand that failure is a process in life, that only in trying can you enrich yourself and have the possibility of moving forward. The greatest obstacle in life is fear and giving up because of it.

You will succeed if you persevere; and you will find joy in overcoming obstacles.

The hope of courage lies in every heart, together with the fear that we will fail. When the test came, you did not fail.

Fear lives in the head. And courage lives in the heart. The job is to get from one to the other.

If a man were to place himself in an attitude to bear manfully the greatest evil that can be inflicted on him, he would find suddenly that there was no such evil to bear; his brave back would go a-begging.

Be brave, fight for what you believe in and make your dreams your reality

The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire - the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale.

Successful people just don't let failure define them or keep them from doing what they want to do. For example, I'd have people come up to me after my shows, and they'd say they want to do stand-up but are scared they're going to fail. I'd tell them, "You are going to fail, and anyone who is success has powered through many, many failures."

The definition of successful people is simply ordinary people with extraordinary determination. You cannot keep determined people from success. If you place stumbling blocks in their way, they will use them for stepping-stones and climb to new heights. People who succeed have a goal, a dream and make their plans and follow them.

If you wish to succeed, you must brave the risk of failure.

Afraid? I can dodge folly without backing into fear.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... The danger lies in refusing to face the fear, in not daring to come to grips with it. If you fail anywhere along the line it will take away your confidence. You must make yourself succeed every time. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

That's the way to go. People say: 'Oh, he doesn't want to come back, he's scared,' and it's to play with your brain, to play with your mind. I'm not scared of nobody. I'm not scared of no human being. I'm scared to fight, every time I fight I'm scared, but I'll bite into my mouthpiece and I'll walk the walk.

Failure is an option, fear is not.

The key to success is for you to make a habit throughout your life of doing the things you fear.

The great contributors in life are those who, though afraid of the knock at the door, still answer it.

Just keep on going and keep believing in your own original vision, no matter what odds you have to overcome. And especially don't be stopped by your own fears.

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.