William James Quotes

The only failure is not to try.

If something's important enough, you should try. Even if you - the probable outcome is failure.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

True hopefulness and optimism is what leads one to dare. It is also what lifts one back up to dare again after a failed attempt.

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

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

When you're doing something that you think - that you know - is a breakthrough, you cannot obsess about the possibility of failure. That is just not a great place to go.

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

If you fall during your life, it doesn't matter. You're never a failure as long as you try to get up.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

Go ahead, work hard and never be afraid to try something. Even if you don't make it, at least you can say you tried.

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

Take risks. Fail. Pick yourself back up again. And always, always remember this: there is no adversity capable of stopping you once the choice to persevere is made.

There's no disgrace in failure, the disgrace is not to try.

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

My advice to young entrepreneurs is not to accept defeat in the face of odds, and challenge negative forces with hope, self-confidence and conviction.

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

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.

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

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right about face which turns us from failure to success.

I have self-doubt. I have insecurity. I have fear of failure. I have nights when I show up at the arena and I'm like, 'My back hurts, my feet hurt, my knees hurt. I don't have it. I just want to chill.' We all have self-doubt. You don't deny it, but you also don't capitulate to it. You embrace it.

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.