Brenda Ueland Quotes

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

We all have anxiety about things. We all have little insecurities, but eventually you have to face your fears if you want to be successful, and everybody has some fear of failure.

Fear of failure leads to failure.

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.

I didn't hang any pictures in my office for a year because I thought that I would be jinxing myself and have to take them down the next day.

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

Many things we can't do are simply because we think we can't do them.

There’s no better guarantee of failure than convincing yourself that success is impossible, and therefore never even trying.

The comfort zone takes our greatest aspirations and turns them into excuses for not bothering to aspire.

Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true.

Doubt is one of the main paths on the highway to failure.

The air will always be to filled with something. Your body too sore or tired. Your father too drunk. Your wife too cold. You will always have some excuse not to live your life.

I don't think looking at things through the prism of fear is going to accomplish anything.

To acknowledge the presence of fear is to give birth to failure.

The word 'when' is so important for a people, for an individual! If an individual thinks he won't do it, he'll never do it. Even if he's highly intelligent, even if he has countless talents.

A person who is worried about the outcome of his work does not see his goal; he sees only his opposition and the obstacles before him.

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.

He who feared that he would not succeed sat still.

It is not failure itself that holds you back; it is the fear of failure that paralyzes you.

You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that.

Fear is a killer, when it comes to the creative process.

I think every writer doubts themselves, every day. You procrastinate because you're afraid. You're always afraid it's not going to be as good as you want it to be. But, the key is overcoming fear.

I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me.

I'm afraid to fail again.