The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

The biggest mistake most people make is to not see themselves and others objectively, which leads them to bump into their own and others’ weaknesses again and again. People who do this fail because they are stubbornly stuck in their own heads.

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

But fear of making mistakes can itself become a huge mistake, one that prevents you from living, for life is risky and anything less is already a loss.

To live our lives trying to avoid mistakes is one of the biggest mistakes we can make.

It is ignorance that causes most mistakes.

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives is to think we work for anybody but ourselves.

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

You see, we are so afraid to fail, to make mistakes, not only in examinations but in life. To make a mistake is considered terrible because we will be criticized for it, somebody will scold us. But, after all, why should you not make a mistake? Are not all the people in the world making mistakes? And would the world cease to be in this horrible mess if you were never to make a mistake? If you are afraid of making mistakes you will never learn. The older people are making mistakes all the time, but they don’t want you to make mistakes, and thereby they smother your initiative. Why? Because they are afraid that by observing and questioning everything, by experimenting and making mistakes you may find out something for yourself and break away from the authority of your parents, of society, of tradition. That is why the ideal of success is held up for you to follow; and success, you will notice, is always in terms of respectability.

I think the most common mistake for humanity is believing you’re going to be made happy because of some external circumstance.

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

When it comes to changing your life, if you’re not scared, you’re doing something wrong.

All men have a natural fear of making a mistake — by believing too well of a person. However, the error of believing too ill of a person is perhaps not feared, at least not in the same degree as the other.