Fear Failure Quotes

I've always operated with a great deal of self-doubt. Every time I start a new book it's like, well, this one will destroy the career and I have to overcome that feeling especially in the first hundred pages of the book.

Nobody wants to hear me rap.

I'm not good with decisions.

I'm horrible at auditions anyway. Maybe that's why I never got anything.

No, I'm never confident with what I do, particularly playing and singing!

When my sister decided that she wanted to act, I was so nervous for her. She's doing great, but I have a lot of friends at every level of success as an actor, and we all go through periods of time where they feel like their worth isn't within their own control. That's a horrible feeling for an adult to have.

I was apprehensive about bringing off this Homer.

I'm always nervous before starting a record because I can never sleep. I'm like, 'I have no good ideas, everyone is gonna see through me.'

People are so ready to cut you down if you take a risk and leave your comfort zone.

People who pity themselves think, 'Why would I try to do anything? I'll just fail.'

I'm not qualified to be a high-profile person.

I've got to be right on top of the action, or else all those people watching the game will say, 'This guy's not very good.'

It's pretty disabling sometimes, the terror of not living up. My expectations are the worst.

I'm always struck with writing - I constantly feel like I don't know what I'm doing and I'm starting over.

If you don't take the risk, you forfeit the miracle.

I think there is a part of me that's always a little bit like, "Why would I torture myself? Just in case you forgot how big the shoes are you're walking in, take a look again". Like, I think I pussy out. So, I'm not that kind of person.

It's so easy to get caught up in your own self-doubt when you're writing. It can be so easy to tell yourself, "Who am I kidding?"

I'm a workaholic because I don't want to not work. When you come from basically nothing and you have so much good things happening for you sometimes you have to sacrifice.

I'm much more indecisive and a people-pleaser than someone who's willing to step into the firing line.

I think pressure is that uneasy feeling that you feel when you're unprepared.

I never thought I was an achiever and was always low on confidence.

Well, I think again, the worst part of it was just leading up to it, before we got on set, at least for me... dreading this idea that I was just going to suck and I really had strong feelings about that. I just didn't want to be that weak link.

It's almost like the better I do, the more my feeling of inadequacy actually increases, because I'm just going, 'Any moment, someone's going to find out I'm a total fraud, and that I don't deserve any of what I've achieved. I can't possibly live up to what everyone thinks I am and what everyone's expectations of me are.'

Going into my first Ryder Cup, my big fear was that I would contribute nothing to the team and that we'd lose.

I'm always just very nervous. I never feel like, 'I've got this'. I'm always very nervous and aware of how quickly people can hate you and that scares me. I never feel like I'm on top of it or I know what I'm doing... so, no. I never get a big head, I just get more and more anxious.