Romain Grosjean Quotes

I hate the word 'potential'-potential means you haven't gotten it done.

When someone gets a success, and we, too, have done good work and sometimes even better work than the person who has just triumphed, we wonder: 'Why did success pass me by?'

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.

Self-doubt kills talent.

Though we may have desires or bold goals, for whatever reason, most of us don't think we can achieve something beyond what we're qualified to achieve. Why, I ask, do we let reality interfere with our dreams?

I never felt like I had made it.

Many feel discouraged because they have not measured up to their potential.

My biggest fear, the only fear that I have is failing. I hate to fail at anything that I do and that's really my only fear in life, to be a failure.

If aught be worse than failure from overstress of a life's prime purpose, it is to sit down content with a little success.

There’s no better guarantee of failure than convincing yourself that success is impossible, and therefore never even trying.

Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that procrastinators are self-handicappers: rather than risk failure, they prefer to create conditions that make success impossible, a reflex that of course creates a vicious cycle.

there are many ways to fail. Some reject success. And others do not recognize it when success comes.

Fear of failure is a far worse condition than failure itself, because it kills off possibilities.

There was no particular point at which I stopped being promising.

I think I'm what they call a never-was.

I think just in general there's a bunch of films that mattered to me that didn't reach their potential, and on some level you have to assume responsibility for that. And I think over the years that gets difficult.

I can think of nothing more soul destroying in life than to persist in trying to do a thing you want desperately to do well, and to know that you are at the best second rate.

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

Failure is not about insecurity. It's about lack of execution.

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

our can'ts were born to happen our mosts have died in more

I have seen many successful people fail after they start fearing they might lose what they have built.

Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst.

I look around at people who had success so early and then didn't know what to do with themselves.

The tragedy of life is often not in our failure, but rather in our complacency; not in our doing too much, but rather in our doing too little; not in our living above our ability, but rather in our living below our capacities.