Alfred Adler Quotes

Definitely, it's a fear of failure that drives me.

'Bad' health, in a thousand different forms, is used as an excuse for failing to do what a person wants to do, failing to accept greater responsibilities, failing to make more money, failing to achieve success.

I honestly think I'm the kind of person that is driven by fear of failure rather than striving for success. I tend to go to bed scared and wake up terrified.

We are so in fear of failure that often we prefer not to try..

The fear of mistakes is the fast track to irrelevance.

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

I'm afraid to fail again.

I think of these things as obstacles rather than opportunities, because if they were opportunities it means I actually took the business of doing them seriously. To take myself too seriously is the gentle kiss of death.

You already feel unsure of yourself, and then you see your worst fears in print. It really knocked me - which is why, I think, I was working, working, working, because I was trying to run away from the fact that I thought I couldn't do it.

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.

I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.

There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.

Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins.

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

Maybe I fear things going wrong so much that I pre-empt them by not getting excited about them when they appear to be. going well.

There's always a reason not to do anything... to flee the need to make decisions.

Every time I've ever gotten close to being successful, I've found some way to screw it up.

I'm interested in what stops people getting what they want.

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

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

One who fears failure limits his activities.

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

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

Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.

Do not be one of those who, rather than risk failure, never attempts anything.