Top 100 Quotes About Afraid To Fail
#1. I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.
Anne Baxter
#2. That's the whole key to anything: Don't be afraid to fail. And Bernie Mac is not afraid to fail.
Bernie Mac
#3. Never be afraid to fail. Failure is only a stepping stone to improvement. Never be overconfident because that will block your improvement.
Tony Jaa
#4. We shouldn't be afraid to fail- if we are not failing we are not pushing.
Jonathan Ive
#5. Do not be afraid to fail. Be afraid to accept that who you are right now is all you are going to be.
John Bingham
#7. An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.
Edwin Land
#8. I'm not afraid to fail ... I'm scared to death of dying and having the Lord say to me, 'Angelica, this is what you might have done had you trusted more.
Mother Angelica
#9. I didn't know it was possible to be successful as a writer, so I wasn't afraid to fail.
Jamaica Kincaid
#10. The greatest success goes to the person who is not afraid to fail in front of even the largest audience.
David Packard
#11. I'm not afraid to live. I'm not afraid to fail. I'm not afraid to succeed. I'm not afraid to fall in love. I'm not afraid to be alone. I'm just afraid I might have to stop talking about myself for five minutes.
Kinky Friedman
#12. Unless you're not pushing yourself, you're not living to the fullest. You can't be afraid to fail, but unless you fail, you haven't pushed hard enough.
Dean Karnazes
#13. Don't be afraid to fail. You're going to go on a million auditions, and most of them you won't get. It's very easy to think, 'This is not going to work for me,' but keep at it. It's very generic advice, but you have to be willing to keep yourself in the game.
Ike Barinholtz
#14. So let me tell you, as you prepare to go off into the world, remember six rules: Trust yourself, Break some rules, Don't be afraid to fail, Ignore the naysayers, Work like hell, and Give something back.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#15. People who take huge risks aren't afraid to fail. In fact, they love to fail. It's because failing means they found the edge.
Bob Goff
#16. Don't be afraid to fail. Anything that I've ever attempted I was always willing to fail. You can't always win, but don't be afraid of making decisions.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#17. Do not be afraid to try. Do not be afraid to fail. Be afraid to simply exist never knowing either the high of success or the low of failure.
Shayla Black
#18. In order to succeed, you can't be afraid to fail. Just do it and don't let anybody tell you you can't.
Faith Hill
#19. Constantly seek difficulties. You shouldn't be afraid to fail; rather you should fail continually, so that you can win in the end. Without difficulties, we cannot grow.
Michio Kushi
#20. Comedy is incredibly hard. You have to be loose. You have to be not afraid to fail.
Bill Hader
#21. Don't be afraid to fail. For the love of God, don't be afraid to fail, because you're going to fail. So try to fail as hard as you can is what I would say, because you're always going to get up and you're going to learn something from it.
Monica Raymund
#22. Fear of failure is the fuel of achievement. If you weren't afraid to fail, you probably wouldn't be highly motivated to work at the level that most of us have to work at to do well.
Ruth Simmons
#23. Most of the reason we don't do things is because we're afraid to fail. I just made a decision one day that I was not not going to do things in my life because of fear.
Sara Blakely
#24. The most important aspect of being in an innovative environment is not being afraid to fail.
Mike Haley
#25. Don't be afraid to fail. The greatest failure of all is not to act when action is needed.
John Wooden
#26. Do not be afraid to fail, but also, do not be afraid to succeed.
Eric Schmidt
#27. If you're going to be part of a nationally televised show that airs live and do sketches that haven't even been brainstormed a week earlier, you really can't be afraid to fail.
Casey Wilson
#30. Failures are life's way of nudging you and letting you know you are off course. Trying new things and not being afraid to fail along the way are more important than what you learn in school.
Sara Blakely
#31. If you are afraid to fail, then you are afraid to succeed. You can never succeed of you have not failed.
Joban Singh Bal
#32. Try something. And never be afraid to fail. That failure is useful too. It's just another building block.
Ricky Gervais
#33. Never be afraid to fail. Be afraid of not learning from mistakes.
W. Brett Wilson
#34. The passion to explore and not be afraid to fail - that's something I will always attribute to the Groundlings.
Jim Rash
#36. I've had to learn through experiences not to be afraid to fail. You don't know what the future holds for you. You can hope your dreams come true, but you have to be fearless. I don't want to look back and think, What if?
Nastia Liukin
#37. Having the courage to make decisions and take action. Never be afraid to fail. You have nothing to fear if you have prepared to the best of your ability.
John Wooden
#38. In a highly critical, scarcity-based world, everyone's afraid to fail.
Brene Brown
#40. Think like a queen. A queen if not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness.
Oprah Winfrey
#41. You can't be afraid to fail. It's the only way you succeed - you're not gonna succeed all the time, and I know that.
LeBron James
#42. Courageous people are not afraid to fail. So often in life and in sports, we're afraid to fail. Instead, we should attack things with excitement and enthusiasm and think about the positives as opposed to the negatives.
Matt Cullen
#43. If you're afraid to fail, then you're probably going to fail.
Kobe Bryant
#44. When you got it going, you got it going. I just keep my focus down the stretch. Thats when I want the ball. Im just not afraid to fail.
Paul Pierce
#45. But what if we fail' they ask, whispering the dreaded word across the Generation Gap to their parents. 'Don't' they whisper back. What they should say is 'Don't be afraid to fail. Failure isn't fatal
William Zinsser
#46. When things go bad, it's easy to point fingers. People who attempt to switch the blame are afraid to fail. We've all been afraid to fail before a game, but it shouldn't stop us from continuing, and from doing what we have to do to get the job done.
John Elway
#47. Trust your imagination. Don't be afraid to fail. Write. Revise. Revise. Revise.
Jeff VanderMeer
#48. Don't be afraid to fail, encourage your talent, and use your heart. And never be unprepared
Joe Torre
#49. An optimist understands that life can be a bumpy road, but at least it is leading somewhere. They learn from mistakes and failures, and are not afraid to fail again.
Harvey MacKay
#50. If you are afraid to fail, then you should go and become a banker.
Yossi Vardi
#52. People who are afraid to fail, who are afraid to fall from high to low...will always live in the lows.
Internet Marketer, Brian GV
#53. If you're afraid to fail you'll never succeed
NightBits
#54. If you are afraid to fail, your successes will be few, common, and unmemorable.
Lorii Myers
#55. If you're afraid to fail your probably going to.
Elijah Smith
#56. I told graduates to not be afraid to fail, and I still believe that. But today I tell you that whether you fear it or not, disappointment will come. The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.
Conan O'Brien
#57. If you aren't afraid to fail, then you probably don't care enough about success.
Mark McCormack
#58. I'm not afraid to fail. Sometimes when you lose, you win. Sometimes when you win, you lose.
Bernie Mac
#59. If you are afraid to fail, you will never succeed.
Dan Gable
#60. You keep pushing because you believe in yourself and in your vision and you know that it is the right thing to do, and success will come. So don't be afraid to fail!
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#61. 6 rules to succes:
1. Trust yourself;
2. Break some rules;
3. Don't be afraid to fail;
4. Ignore the naysayers;
5. Work like hell;
6. Give something back.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#62. Failure is part of discovering the problem you need to be working on. If, as an entrepreneur, you are afraid to fail or to admit the failure of your efforts, then you completely lose any chance at being able to adapt and succeed at finding the problem that needs solving.
Caterina Fake
#63. I always tell friends you can't judge your success by someone else's. You can't be afraid to fail.
Patina Miller
#64. My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail.
Sara Blakely
#65. Have a vision, trust yourself, break some rules, ignore the naysayers, don't be afraid to fail.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#66. It is up to the leader to create a healthy environment where people are not afraid to fail. Mistakes should be seen as an integral part of the organizational process. They are a normal part of striving for excellence.
Andrew Harvey
#67. Don't be afraid to fail. Experience is just mistakes you don't make anymore.
Joe Garagiola
#68. Those who are afraid to fail may not deserve to succeed.
Nido R. Qubein
#69. I'm not afraid to fail. I'm afraid to be mediocre.
Junior Seau
#71. I believe anybody who is not afraid to fail is a winner.
Joe Torre
#72. While I am so afraid to fail so I won't even try,
Well how can I say I'm alive.
Dido
#73. If you want something badly enough, make an attempt. If you want to paint, get a brush and do it. If you want to sing, sing. A lot of people get scared. They're afraid to fail. Take that word out of your vocabulary. You don't "fail." You've "tried your best."
Jane Seymour
#74. Everybody else is afraid to fail. I do not really care because when I fail, I try something new.
Vinod Khosla
#75. My biggest adjustment has been learning not to be afraid to fail.
Johnny Damon
#76. Trying is terrifying because I know I will just fail. But I do want things to be different. I do ... I am so afraid. I'm afraid to hope again.
Nic Sheff
#77. With age, you see people fail more. You see yourself fail more. How do you keep that fearlessness of a kid? You keep going. Luckily, I'm not afraid to make a fool of myself.
Hugh Jackman
#78. You shouldn't be afraid to take risks. It might not always work out, you might fail miserably and get hurt, but you'll never know unless you try. And if it does work, wouldn't it have been worth it?
J.M. Darhower
#79. Behind all of the "I can'ts" are merely "I won'ts." The "I won'ts" mean "I am afraid to" or "I am ashamed to" or "I have too much pride to try, for fear I might fail." Behind that is anger at ourselves and circumstances engendered by pride.
David R. Hawkins
#80. To allow your organization the permission to fail is a very powerful thing. If we want to really be thought leaders and industry leaders, it doesn't come without taking risks. We're not afraid to take those risks that will get us to a better place.
Rick Welts
#82. Never be afraid to try. The only angle through which you can approach success is by the "try-angle". You may fail if you try, but shame unto you if you don't try at all. If you fail ... rise up and try again and again!
Israelmore Ayivor
#83. If you want to be an entrepreneur, fail as fast as you can. The longer you go without that experience, the more afraid you will be of it, and then you will never do it!
Jeffry A Timmons
#84. I'm not afraid of failing. I don't like to fail. I hate to fail. But I'm not afraid of it.
Vince McMahon
#85. I was afraid I'd fail. So I didn't work.' And there it was, plain as a glass of water, the truth, which he had never admitted to himself.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#86. People are afraid to think, or they don't know how. They fail to realize that, while emotions can't be suppressed, the mind can be strengthened. All over the world people are seeking peace of mind, but there can be no peace of mind without strength of mind.
Eric Gutkind
#87. Don't be afraid to take risks, for you take them every day without realizing it. I'd rather fail at trying something new or different than to lose just for not trying at all.
Bianca McCormick-Johnson
#88. Many people fail not so much because of their mistakes; they fail because they are afraid to try.
George Foreman
#89. Relationships fail often because some of us are too afraid to go naked. Not literally, but with out these costumes we made.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#90. Maybe you will be afraid and maybe you will fail, but the courage to take risks in any part of your life is, I feel, a very worthwhile way to live.
Emile Hirsch
#91. If there's one thing I've discovered, it's that stifling yourself will only lead to more misery. [ ... ] I polluted all other happiness because I was afraid to let myself create and change. You have to have courage. Real courage to explore, to fail, and to pick yourself back up again.
Siobhan Vivian
#92. To bring about change, you must not be afraid to take the first step. We will fail when we fail to try.
Rosa Parks
#93. Great leaders love to see people grow. The day you are afraid of them being better than you is the day you fail as a leader.
Jack Welch
#94. I was gazing underwater at the brightly colored landscape that had been hidden from view, forgetting to be afraid that my equipment might fail, that against all evidence I would sink to the bottom and die a watery death, even that I was afraid at all.
Jojo Moyes
#95. What is there to be afraid of? The worst thing that can happen is you fail. So what? I failed at a lot of things. My first record was horrible.
John Mellencamp
#96. I wanted to find my limitations so I decided to do Shylock. And if I fail? I've never been afraid of that. I have other fears - doing bad work knowingly is the worst fear.
Dustin Hoffman
#97. America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.
Sigmund Freud
#98. The more our bodies fail us, the more naked and more demanding is the spirit, the more open and loving we can become if we are not afraid of what we are and of what we feel. I am not a phoenix yet, but here among the ashes, it may be that the pain is chiefly that of new wings trying to push through.
May Sarton
#99. I am afraid that if we begin to put our trust in human help, some of our Divine help will fail us.
Teresa Of Avila
#100. It never seemed that honorable to me, and I guess I was always afraid that I might fail.
Rooney Mara