Suppose you should fail. Is that so terrible? Not to have tried is a worse failure.
The greatest failure is the failure to try.
Failure is not having the courage to try, nothing more and nothing less.
If you try you may fail, if you don't try you're guaranteed to fail.
I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something, 100%, because I had never reached true failure.
To bring about change, you must not be afraid to take the first step. We will fail when we fail to try.
Fear of trying causes paralysis. Trying causes only trembling and sweating.
Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.
I've often met people who are terrified, you know, in a straight jacket of their own making because they'd rather do anything that fail. They don't want to try for fear of failing.
A lot of people don’t just go ahead and try things. They’ll have an idea and they’ll say — they’ll convince themselves or other people will convince them that it can’t be done. You know, one or the other. Actually I think that the first is even more dangerous and more serious. It’s convincing yourself that it can’t be done.
I was very afraid to write a novel - it was a dream for a very long time, and it was one of the few things that I was afraid to try.
We're scared to death to try new things because we think we have to get it right the first time.
