Wally Amos Quotes

If you're afraid to fail, then you're probably going to fail.

Show business is, essentially, a fear-based industry.

I've always felt that if you back down from a fear, the ghost of that fear never goes away. It diminishes people.

The greatest mistake a person can make is to be afraid of making one.

Why haven't you achieved your goals yet? What are your favorite excuses, and how do they hold you back?

The number one cause of failure in this country is the fear of failure.

If you're not frightened that you might fail, you'll never do the job. If you're frightened, you'll work like crazy.

One reason people never attempt new things is their fear of failure.

Figure out what scares you the most and do that first.

The fearful are the failing.

Fear of trying causes paralysis. Trying causes only trembling and sweating.

Everything tells me that I am about to make a wrong decision, but making mistakes is just part of life. What does the world want of me? Does it want me to take no risks, to go back to where I came from because I didn't have the courage to say "yes" to life?

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

There seemed to be endless obstacles... it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear.

My great fear has always been complete and utter failure. Hence, you see, all the dispossessed people in my fiction, and why I try to earn as much money as I can. It's a defense. I don't enjoy it or do anything with it.

It might be scary because you're taking a risk, but at the end of the day you can say you tried.

Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.

For me, personally, when I'm afraid of something - when you're afraid of something, normally you try to go away, you try to avoid it. Instead of avoiding it, to overcome your fear, I believe you need to embrace it.

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

I don't know which is stronger: the thrill of winning or the fear of failure. I don't know which one affects me most. I don't know where the middle is.

It's your own fear of failure that stops you from doing things.

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

Every individual suffers from the fear of failure, but you can change your destiny only when you overcome it.

He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.

Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.