Cecelia Ahern Quotes

If you're going to worry about what people say, you're never going to make any progress.

People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.

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.

Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I'm so smart I can negate any dream.

We want to avoid pain and have pleasure, so if our early attempts to achieve our dreams fail, we want to avoid the pain of future failure and rejection, so we stop trying and write it off with a broadbrush, "I'm just not driven enough, not well educated enough, not attractive enough, not smart enough."

Being insecure - I'm a master, a virtuoso - they can be handing me the keys to the kingdom and all I can think is, I hope I don't drop the key.

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

I've always had confidence issues; I just get scared of doing things wrong.

The fear of mistakes is the fast track to irrelevance.

excessive fear and self-doubt that were the greatest detractors of personal genius.

If fear causes you to retreat from your dreams, you will never give the world anything new.

If you don't have the confidence, it doesn't matter what you do, you're always second-guessing yourself.

More often than not, the only thing between you and your dream is a rational excuse.

The older I've gotten, I really do feel that it's a lack of trust that I see in people and that's why they don't follow their dreams - because they don't trust anything.

Perfectionism is really a manifestation of the belief that one's efforts are never good enough. Imagine: How many of the obstacles standing in your way are the product of your own imagination? What have you convinced yourself that you can't do? What limitations have you come to believe in? Your mind is very powerful and effective. Is it working for you, or against you?

Don't ever deny yourself a chance at your dreams. We're all meant for great things, but not everyone believes that can happen.

Taking no chances means wasting your dreams.

So I feel that lack of qualification. And I'm scared. And I have a tendency to think things may not/probably won't work out. That's my basic mindset.

All the time you're saying to yourself, 'I could do that, but I won't,'--which is just another way of saying that you can't.

Our strength is in our dreams, and those who do not dare to dream damn themselves.

I just try to get out of my own way because if anyone is their own worst enemy, it's usually you.

I'm afraid to fail again.

My biggest enemy for the longest time was my head. When I first became successful, it made me anxious because I was overthinking everything, and you hear so many 'fail' stories.

I'm always thinking 'Don't mess this up.'