Fear of Failure Quotes

I hate committing myself to anything. It's probably the lack of discipline, honestly. I'm probably a spoiled brat worried about getting my way every time.

Unfortunately, I am very aware of editing and I look at the monitor too much. Sometimes the monitor can become your worst enemy because you can, consciously or unconsciously, start editing yourself.

You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.

I've cried multiple times after posting a video. So much work goes into each video that I don't know how I'm still alive.

I think to be courageous, you have to be afraid. For me, it feels very courageous when I go skiing because I'm very, very afraid to ski. It's dangerous! I feel very scared. But when I'm acting, I don't feel very scared.

There's a tremendous bias against taking risks. Everyone is trying to optimize their ass-covering.

Don't worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try.

Men trust a great man because they do not trust themselves. And hence the worship of great men always appears in times of weakness and cowardice; we never hear of great men until the time when all other men are small.

This is probably the greatest thing that I have ever accomplished but I fear that we Democrats have lost the South for the rest of my lifetime and probably you lifetime as well.

Creativity is often blocked by trying to be perfect. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

Being an entrepreneur is like eating glass and staring into the abyss of death.

The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.

If you don't fail, you're not even trying.

Suppose you should fail. Is that so terrible? Not to have tried is a worse failure.

The more successful you are, the more mistakes you will make. People who don't do anything, don't make mistakes.

The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

You will have more regrets for the things you didn't try than the ones you tried and didn't succeed at.

Do one thing every day that scares you.

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.

No worthwhile life can be lived without risks, despite current American superstitions to the contrary.

If you are not successful, that means you're not making enough mistakes.

Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success. I've met people who don't want to try for fear of failing.

The antidote for fear of failure is not success but small doses of failure.

Those who make no mistakes are making the biggest mistakes of all - they are attempting nothing new.

Most people don't really do too many things because they're afraid they'll fail. There are people failing all the time, all around you. And nobody is going to notice your failure. Your failure is not going to be so spectacular that people write news stories about it. Your failure will be boring.