Fear of Making Mistakes Quotes

Fear of failure leads to failure.

What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You make other mistakes, and when you have made all the mistakes you possibly can without drowning - and some of them many times over - what do you find? That you can swim? Well - life is just the same as learning to swim! Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!

Fear of trying causes paralysis. Trying causes only trembling and sweating.

So long as your desire to explore is greater than your desire to not screw up, you're on the right track.

Decision-making is very scary for me.

If you're afraid to be wrong you'll never do anything creative.

A writer who is afraid to overreach himself is as useless as a general who is afraid to be wrong.

The greatest mistake a person can make is to be afraid of making one.

You’re not making my mistakes, Bella. You sound like you’re scared silly, and I’m guessing it’s because you’re afraid of me.

If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.

There are two reasons why people fail. One is irresponsibility. The second is fear.

It's fear that makes us lose our conscience. It's also what transforms us into cowards.

I don't know. I just feel stuck, like I'm afraid to take any steps, in case they're the wrong ones.

I'm terrified of saying the wrong thing on stage with bell hooks.

The church, by and large, has had a poor record of encouraging freedom. She has spent so much time inculcating in us the fear of making mistakes, that she has made us like ill-taught piano students: we play our songs, but we never really hear them because our main concern is not to make music to avoid some flub that will get us in dutch.

He suffered from paralysis by analysis.

My life used to be like that game of freeze tag we played as kids. Once tagged, you had to freeze in the position you were in. Whenever something happened, I'd freeze like a statue, too afraid of moving the wrong way, of making the wrong decision. The problem is, if you stand still too long, that's your decision.

To be overwise is to ossify; and the scruple-monger ends by standing stockstill.

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

The biggest hindrance to learning is fear of showing one's self a fool.

Many people fail not so much because of their mistakes; they fail because they are afraid to try.

I can't live my life under the sort of "I cannot fail" philosophy, because then every time I do fail, which feels more inevitable than me being perfect all the time, it's going to be soul crushing. And more importantly, I'll never take any risks.