Bob Goff Quotes

I used to be afraid of failing at something that really mattered to me, but now I'm more afraid of succeeding at things that don't matter.

Bob Goff

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• I allow myself to fail. I allow myself to break. I'm not afraid of my flaws.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Myself
  • Afraid
  • Flaws

• In school, I was Martha in 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' I loved that.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • School
  • Loved
  • Afraid

• Both sides of the aisle - Republican and Democrat - have been unwilling and afraid to address the deficit, and someone's got to.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Afraid
  • Republican
  • Sides

• I'm not afraid of turning 80 and I have lots of things to do. I don't have time for dying.

  

  Ingvar Kamprad
  • Time
  • Dying
  • Afraid

• I'm loyal. I'm real. I'm not afraid to say what I'm thinking.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Thinking
  • Real
  • Afraid

• I'm not afraid of death, but I resent it. I think it's unfair and irritating.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Think
  • Death
  • Afraid

• I'm afraid of everything. But maybe when you're afraid of everything, it sort of seems like you're scared of nothing.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • You
  • Afraid
  • Scared

• To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • Truth
  • True
  • Afraid

• I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story working it out.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Story
  • Working
  • Afraid

• You cannot get an A if you're afraid of getting an F.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • You
  • Afraid
  • Getting

• I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Speak
  • Afraid
  • Attorney

• I'm afraid Japanese people tend to collective hysteria.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • People
  • Afraid
  • Japanese

• I'm not afraid of chaos and I'm happy talking to strangers. I really love not knowing where I'm going.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Happy
  • Afraid
  • Chaos

• I had become so accustomed to succeeding that I no longer even remembered what it was like to fail.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Like
  • Remembered
  • Succeeding

• I am afraid of privilege, of ease, of entitlement.

  

  Tan Le
  • Afraid
  • Privilege
  • Ease

• I'm insecure about things. I'm not afraid to say it, though. Even when my publicist is like, 'Go on the red carpet,' I don't wanna go.

  

  Wale
  • Red
  • Say
  • Afraid

• Never be afraid of not knowing. Find out.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Afraid
  • Find Out
  • Not Knowing

• The great irony to Dirk [Gently] is that he sees connections in everything, but the one thing he fails and struggles with most is connecting with other people.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • People
  • Great
  • Struggle

• I don't normally do big movies. I'm new to this world. And I've always been afraid that jumping onto a big budget film, you would lose the relationships in favour of special effects.

  

  Anne Hathaway
  • Movies
  • Afraid
  • Relationships

• We are always afraid to ask because we aren't afraid of the answer but the feeling of rejection.

  

  AnNa R. Rosenstolz
  • Afraid
  • Answer
  • Rejection

• I made my money in an honest way. And I have declared it all. By co-founding Infosys along with Mr. Murthy and others, I earned financially.

  

  Nandan Nilekani
  • Money
  • Way
  • Others

• I used to be afraid of failing at something that really mattered to me, but now I'm more afraid of succeeding at things that don't matter.

  

  Bob Goff
  • Afraid
  • Failing
  • Succeeding