“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.”
“I wasn’t going to be one of those people who died wondering, what if? I would keep putting my dreams to the test – even though it meant living with uncertainty and fear of failure. This is the shadow land of hope, and anyone with a dream must learn to live there.”
“I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.”
“When a competitor’s self-esteem is too closely tied to the outcome of any one task, the results can be devastating. In these situations, competitors may spend more time focusing on the negative consequences of failure, than preparing to succeed.”
“I hope that I have convinced you…The only thing that separates successful people from the people who aren’t is the willingness to work very very very hard.”
“I was not delivered into this world in defeat nor does failure flow through my veins. I am not a sheep waiting to be prodded by my shepherd. I am a lion and I refuse to talk, walk, to merge with the sheep. I will not hear those who weep and complain for their thoughts are contagios. Let them join the sheep. The slaughterhouse of failure…Is not my destiny.”
“The key to overcomming fear of failure is breaking one’s attachment to results. When ever we convince ourselves that results are all that count, we fall into anxiety that paradoxically limits our ability to achieve results…”
“Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life, I tell them that absolutely the most important thing was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to become.”
“The key to overcoming fear of failure is breaking one’s attachment to results. Whenever we convince ourselves that results are all that count, we fall into anxiety that paradoxically limits our ability to achieve results…”
“All that is necessary to break the spell of inertial and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right-about-face which turns us from failure towards success”