Samuel Johnson Quotes

Doubt may be a poor encouragement to do anything, but it is a bad reason for doing nothing.

Leave undone whatever you hesitate to do.

But I didn’t dare. That has always been my trouble. I’ve never dared enough.

We do not lack strength so much as the will to use it; and very often our imagining that things are impossible is nothing but an excuse of our own contriving, to reconcile ourselves to our own idleness.

Inaction will cause a man to sink into the slough of despond and vanish without a trace.

The true source of our sufferings has been our timidity.

Most people are fast to stop you before you get started but hesitate to get in the way if you're moving.

Maybe it was inertia -or worse, fear- that was keeping me in the same place.

Don't let fear of failure discourage you. Don't let the voice of critics paralyze you - whether that voice comes from the outside or the inside.

Lazy people tend not to take chances, but express themselves by tearing down other's work.

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Indecision may or may not be my problem.

I used to second guess myself all the time. I can sit there and work in circles when I'm nervous about what I'm doing.

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

I have hesitation making any kind of decision, really in my life. I'm really slow at it.

To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.

It's all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.

It's your own fear of failure that stops you from doing things.

Every time I start a new piece of work, I spend a long while under the duvet thinking I can't do it.

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

Lack of confidence - every time I start a new piece of work, it seems I have to spend a long while under the duvet thinking I can't do it.

Don't think about your errors or failures; otherwise, you'll never do a thing.

Inhibition is something I notice in hamstrung actors all the time. They can be wonderful up to a point and then become very self-conscious.

He suffered from paralysis by analysis.

'Bad' health, in a thousand different forms, is used as an excuse for failing to do what a person wants to do, failing to accept greater responsibilities, failing to make more money, failing to achieve success.