Top 100 Failure Fear Quotes
#1. At its root, perfectionism isn't really about a deep love of being meticulous. It's about fear. Fear of making a mistake. Fear of disappointing others. Fear of failure. Fear of success.
Michael Law
#2. It's scary to watch someone you love go into the center of himself and confront his fears, fear of failure, fear of death, fear of going insane. You have to fail a little, die a little, go insane a little, to come out the other side.
Eleanor Coppola
#3. I have a tendency to sabotage relationships; I have a tendency to sabotage everything. Fear of success, fear of failure, fear of being afraid. Useless, good-for-nothing thoughts.
Michael Buble
#4. Failure fear people who pursue success, cause their bravery to become successful is far more than failure to understand.
Festus Adeoye
#5. It is man's only enemy - fear of lack, fear of failure, fear of sickness, fear of loss and a feeling of insecurity on some plane. Jesus Christ said: "Why are ye fearful, oh ye of little faith?" (Mat. 8:26) So we can see we
Florence Scovel Shinn
#6. Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego's fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.
Eckhart Tolle
#7. DON'T FEAR FAILURE. Fear being successful at things that don't matter
Tony Dungy
#8. Remember this: the number one cause of failure in this country is the fear of failure. Fear paralyzes you from taking action.
Steve Harvey
#9. I worry sometimes that humans are afraid of helping humans. There's less risk associated with animals, less fear of failure, fear of getting to involved.
Marina Keegan
#11. Looking back, perhaps the single biggest problem was fear. Fear of failure, fear of other people, but mostly fear of myself. It has taken sixty years to discover who I really am. It's never too late to find yourself however lost you may be.
Lynda Bellingham
#12. Those accustomed to failure fear the novelty of success. Those taught the lessons of subordination are oft timid in the school of self-service.
M T Anderson
#13. Never fear, inevitably we shall have our years of failure, and when they arrive, we must reveal tolerance and sanity. No matter the days of anxiety that come our way, we shall emerge stronger because of the trials to be overcome.
Bill Struth
#14. I am a champion, and my damsel is in distress. Failure is not an option." "But death is," she mumbled under her breath. "Fear not, mate. I will prevail." Famous last words.
Eve Langlais
#16. The goal, then, is to uncouple fear and failure - to create an environment in which making mistakes doesn't strike terror into your employees' hearts.
Ed Catmull
#17. Sometimes, when we want something so badly, we fear failure more than we fear being without that thing.
Matthew J. Kirby
#18. It is very important to embrace failure and to do a lot of stuff - as much stuff as possible - with as little fear as possible. It's much, much better to wind up with a lot of crap having tried it than to overthink in the beginning and not do it.
Stefan Sagmeister
#19. Fear was the worst evil ever to plague a man, for with it came hesitation and with that, inaction, failure, death.
Melissa McPhail
#20. My husband once said he'd never met anybody who walked so fast and ran so slowly. As I said, it's a little hard for me to try new things, and this was me facing a fear that I'd had my whole life. Since I had no experience running, I felt like a failure before I'd even begun.
Jamie Lee Curtis
#21. Change is inevitable, so accept it.
Forgiveness is a gift, so give it.
Love is abundant, so spread it.
Failure is not fatal, do don't fear it.
Life is for living, so live it.
Debasish Mridha
#22. Acting allows me the freedom to let go, to be in the moment, to be spontaneous. I no longer have the fear of losing, of failure.
Cathy Rigby
#24. People deal with all sorts of obstacles at work. There is the fear of failure, plus confrontations with mindless bureaucracy, with other people's egos, with your own ego, with unethical practices, with incompetence, and a wide variety of issues related to race, gender, and sexual orientation
Lodro Rinzler
#25. Fear of failure impedes adequate self-identification
Sunday Adelaja
#26. Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.
Benjamin Franklin
#27. When doubt speaks, despise him.
When fear speaks, defy him.
When failure speaks, deride him.
When confusion speaks, disregard him.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#28. You can't let the fear of failure keep you from taking the risks that you know are the right ones to take.
S. Usher Evans
#29. Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.
Gary Ryan Blair
#30. The great fear I've had to overcome is the fear of failure. It can be safer to stay in a comfort zone that's not stretching yourself.
Carmen Ejogo
#31. She posed as being more indolent than she felt, for fear of finding herself less able than she could wish.
Elizabeth Bowen
#33. Don't fear the unknown. Embrace the opportunity. Failure is not permanent it is the essence of learning.
W. Brett Wilson
#34. There was no such thing as fear of failure because Joseph made us imagine - and believe in - success: think it, see it, believe it, make it happen.
Jermaine Jackson
#36. You can either choose to walk in light and love, or run in fear and darkness. But with the latter, you're more likely to fall.
Donald L. Hicks
#37. The more Nos I open myself up to hearing, the closer I am getting to my super successful life.
Malti Bhojwani
#38. Even greater than my fear that l was crazy, was my lifelong dread that someone would find out.
Sarah E. Olson
#39. The four natural principles for success are: A clear goal, a definite plan, confidence, no fear of failure.
Robin Sieger
#40. The fear of getting knocked down is less about the pain of the fall and more about the embarrassment in having fallen. And so, to rid myself of the latter is to reduce my concern about the former, which means I just unleashed my life.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#41. Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.
Jack Lemmon
#42. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative attitudes of doubt and fear you conquer failure.
Bryan Adams
#43. I feel that marriage can lead to the ultimate rejection and failure and divorce and things we all fear.
Mike Birbiglia
#44. No failure you have need to fear, Except to fail to do your best - What have you done, what can you do? That is the question, that the test.
Various
#46. The sorrow of God lies in our fear of Him, our fear of life, and our fear of ourselves. He anguishes over our self-absorption and self-sufficiency ... God's sorrow lies in our refusal to approach Him when we sinned and failed.
Brennan Manning
#47. Anxiety is practising failure in advance. Anxiety is needless and imaginary. It's fear about fear, fear that means nothing.
Seth Godin
#48. Fear missing an opportunity more than you fear failure.
Aaron Walker
#49. What we have most to fear is failure of the heart.
Sonia Johnson
#51. It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.
Jimmy Carter
#52. I don't fear failure. I only fear the slowing up of the engine inside of me which is saying, 'Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?
George S. Patton Jr.
#53. The biggest threat to creativity is fear, especially the fear of failure.
Kelly Leonard
#54. Fear of failure is at least as common as the desire for success. In fact, if harnessed properly, it can be the energy that drives the wheel.
Mark McCormack
#55. The failure of the family court system in America is a national scandal. Sadly, the mainstream media, whether out of ignorance or fear, refuses to cover it. That media silence means that every day, these American human rights abuses continue to occur.
Garland Waller
#56. It's difficult because we tend to overrate the pain of failure. We fear it too much. That's research that emerges from psychology. We think it's going to be worse than it really is. And, I think, as we get a bit older, really after we leave school or college, we quickly stop experimenting.
Tim Harford
#57. Doubts kill more dreams than failure ever will. Fear is faith in reverse. Fear creates doubt. Replace your fears with faith and your doubts with determination.
Zig Ziglar
#58. Fear of failure and criticism can be crippling. Don't let others' negativity take away your joy.
Lee Hammond
#59. every person is a story and therefore is a storyteller. Trouble is that many fear failure, so they never begin.
William Paul Young
#61. Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo.
Camille Paglia
#62. An intrepid person does not fear failure; they boldly flirt with disaster.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#63. Failure is the foundation of truth. It teaches us what isn't true, and that is a great beginning. To fear failure is to fear the possibility of truth.
Joan D. Chittister
#64. Burn your fear of failure with the fire of desires that open the door of success.
Debasish Mridha
#65. If you don't fear the failure, then failures are the best muscle builder.
Debasish Mridha
#66. If your will to win is greater than fear of failure.. then only you will win.
Vikrmn
#67. From children to men we cage ourselves in patterns to avoid facing new problems and possible failure; after a while men become bored because there are no new problems. Such is life under the fear of failure.
Luke Rhinehart
#68. Fear is at the root of so many of the barriers that women face. Fear of not being liked. Fear of making the wrong choice. Fear of drawing negative attention. Fear of overreaching. Fear of being judged. Fear of failure. And the holy trinity of fear: the fear of being a bad mother/wife/daughter.
Sheryl Sandberg
#69. Confidence believes you are able. Competence knows you are able.
Lolly Daskal
#70. The only failure one man should fear, is the failure to do his best.
Daniel D. Palmer
#72. I don't fear failure. I fear succeeding at something that doesn't matter.
Dan Erickson
#73. When you're in front of an audience, you know if it didn't work. I get very nervous and have a fear of failure that is much more profound than in the podcast world.
Andy Daly
#74. Fear of failure is what fuels me, keeps me on edge and sharp. I'm not as good when I'm comfortable.
Alex Rodriguez
#75. The only way our faith will ever strengthen is for us to use it. We need to apply thought and prayer to our decisions and then trust God for the outcome. We need to set our sights on growing in faith, not shrinking back for fear of failure.
Lysa TerKeurst
#76. His anguish, he wrote, had multiple sources, from a fear of fame to a fear of failure. Behind the ordinary fears lurked the fear of being ordinary.
D.T. Max
#77. Composure, a level head, a knowledge of what you want done, and why you want it done and
faith in your own ability to have it done gives composure to the whole school. Restlessness, lack
of faith in self, fear of failure, these bring about the very conditions you are striving to avoid,
Thomas E. Sanders
#78. Every individual suffers from the fear of failure, but you can change your destiny only when you overcome it.
Anupam Kher
#79. Fear of Failure becomes Fear of Success for those who Never Try Anything New.
Wayne Dyer
#80. Fear of failure is closely connected with the apprehension of failure in any field of life, such as career, business, education of private life
Sunday Adelaja
#81. We can become fearless as we let go off our grasp on the fear of failure, because failure too is a perception rather than a reality.
Gyalwa Dokhampa
#82. I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
George Eliot
#83. The fear of failure, the fear of competition, the fear of being ridiculed, the fear of running out of expenses and many more such issues encompass us when we start thinking about our dreams.
Balroop Singh
#84. The greatest obstacle to success is the fear of failure.
Debasish Mridha
#85. I know you like to be in control and you operate a lot from fear but you have to break the bounds of your past Nicole and rewrite the story you've been telling yourself based off of others experiences. You have to create your own experience, write your own story.
Kathryn Perez
#86. He began to fear whether in the presence of far greater events, all his acts would not fade into insignificance, just as a drop of rain disappears into the sea.
Henryk Sienkiewicz
#87. Fear of failure held me back from being a DIYer for many years, especially after a few early attempts at home improvement projects went awry.
Mark Frauenfelder
#90. Military debriefs have a similar purpose. We can all fail but we all need to learn from failure. We need to manage the size of the risk, and we need to give people the environment to succeed without being constrained by fear of failure.
Damian McKinney
#91. If we [Microsoft Corporation] weren't still hiring great people and pushing ahead at full speed, it would be easy to fall behind and become a mediocre company. Fear should guide you, but it should be latent. I have some latent fear. I consider failure on a regular basis.
Bill Gates
#93. Regret is the thing we should fear most. Failure is an answer. Rejection is an answer. Regret is an eternal question you will never have the answer to. "What if..." "If only... " "I wonder what would have..."
You will never, never know, and it will haunt you for the rest of your days.
Trevor Noah
#94. Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success. I've met people who don't want to try for fear of failing.
J.K. Rowling
#95. If you fail to control your thought, your thought will never fail to control you! Master the art of controlling your thought better and your thought will control you better
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#97. So what motivates you more? The fear of failure or the fantastic feeling of achieving your dreams?
Farshad Asl
#99. The fear of failure is worse than the failure itself. So be bold and courageous.
Debasish Mridha
#100. 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.
Jay-Z
