“We all make mistakes, some bigger than others, but none of us is perfect.”
Cecelia Ahern (1981) Irish novelist
Source: One Hundred Names
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“…the biggest mistake people make is not acknowledging fear and uncertainty.”
Brené Brown (1965) US writer and professor
New York Times, "Tiptoeing Out of One’s Comfort Zone (and of Course, Back In)"- Interview) http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/12/your-money/12shortcuts.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=Bren%C3%A9%20Brown&st=cse, February 11, 2011.
Patrick Lencioni (1965) American writer
Source: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable
“Don’t mistake being fearful and weak-minded for being nice.”
Neil Strauss (1973) American writer
Rules of the Game: The Style Diaries (2007)
Context: Most guys who define themselves as "too nice" only behave nicely because they want everybody to like them and don’t want anyone to think badly of them. Don’t mistake being fearful and weak-minded for being nice.
“To have gold brings fear; to have none brings grief.”
James Howell (1594–1666) Anglo-Welsh historian and writer
English Proverbs (1659)
“None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.”
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
Attributed to Russell in M. Kumar Dictionary of Quotations, p. 76, but actually said by Marshal Lannes, according to The London Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences (1824), p. 664
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“None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.”
Ferdinand Foch (1851–1929) French soldier and military theorist
As quoted in Encarta Book of Quotations (2000) by Bill Swainson and Anne H. Soukhanov, p. 338
“The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.”
John C. Maxwell (1947) American author, speaker and pastor
“Nothing will stop you being creative more effectively as the fear of making a
mistake.”
John Cleese (1939) actor from England
