Gene Tierney Quotes

Lately, I've been getting too much attention with the Met Gala and work going so well that I try to find rejection in my day. I'll seek out someone on the street or at the farmers' market and ask for something where I know they'll say no. No one likes rejection, but it's real. And I don't want to lose that feeling.

If you aren't afraid to fail, then you probably don't care enough about success.

The worst nightmare would be not to achieve what I know I'm capable of.

There are some persons who never succeed from being too indolent to undertake anything; and others who regularly fail, because the instant they find success in their power, they grow indifferent, and give over the attempt.

People who fail, excel at avoiding opportunity.

I have seen many successful people fail after they start fearing they might lose what they have built.

My biggest enemy for the longest time was my head. When I first became successful, it made me anxious because I was overthinking everything, and you hear so many 'fail' stories.

Up until my first book was published, I had all this potential, people would say, and I screwed up. After it, I could say: 'No, I didn't screw up.'

When you have success, people think you know what you're doing, and you start to agree with them, you think you can conquer the world. But you go from grandiosity to panic.

Nothing recedes like success.

We are so in fear of failure that often we prefer not to try..

To achieve you most be prepared to try; and be prepared to fail if you try.

My biggest fear, the only fear that I have is failing. I hate to fail at anything that I do and that's really my only fear in life, to be a failure.

The fear of mistakes is the fast track to irrelevance.

Every time I've ever gotten close to being successful, I've found some way to screw it up.

I was scared of failure, of being a one-hit wonder, never being able to write another song again, never being able to sing again. Maybe everything that I think I am and who I want to be never will happen.

If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.

Success has ruined many a man.

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

Those who succeed and do not push on to greater failure are the spiritual middle-classers.

You never want to fail because you didn't work hard enough.

Some people spend their lives failing and never notice.

Those who are afraid to fail may not deserve to succeed.

When you're not afraid to fail, you'll most certainly have the confidence to succeed.

If you're scarde to fail, you don't deserve to be successful.