Quotes About Ambition

Your playing small does not serve the world. Who are you not to be great?

I'm not scared of anything in particular, but I am motivated by a fear of failure as opposed to a need to succeed.

Every fear hides a wish.

It's the fear of not being as good as you want to be. If you give over to that fear, it will sabotage you. As much as I can, I try to use that fear to guide me.

They yearn for what they fear for.

So commit! Commit yourself to pushing through the fear and becoming more than you are at the present moment. The you that could be is absolutely colossal.

The more fear we feel about a specific enterprise, the more certain we can be that that enterprise is important to us and to the growth of our soul.

I'm working, but there is so much still to be done! And it frightens me to think of my weight of years. But on we go, without fear or hesitation!

Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who've never done anything because if you haven't been successful, then you don't know how it feels to lose it all.

Use fear as an engine, not as a brake.

I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.

They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

I have a deathly fear of mediocrity and that nips at my heels and gets me into a lot of trouble.

You get so afraid of failure and so afraid of losing and so afraid of not being the best that it's not a natural drive - it's born out of fear of failure. Which helps in Hollywood.

Overcoming fear and conceiving this 'art of more' should be a fundamental practice in what it is that you do and make.

I have a level of fear going into every project, and that's what keeps me going.

Though you should not fear failure, you should do your very best to avoid it.

The courage to go deeper is found by letting your desire grow larger than your fear.

I had an old typewriter and a big idea.

Fear drives you and makes you better.

Fear is not a word in my football documentary.

Who am I? The sum of your dreams, the thrill you refuse to grasp, the unknown you fear.

Fear of failure is always a driver but the thirst for more is a good one too... So I think you need a little bit of both.

The tiger lies low not from fear, but for aim. ~Wren