Top 100 Quotes About Fear Of Success
#1. Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the "someday I'll" philosophy.
Denis Waitley
#2. Fear of success is one of the new fears I've heard about lately. And I think its definitely a sign that we're running out of fears. A person suffering from fear of success is scraping the bottom of the fear barrel.
Jerry Seinfeld
#3. Fear comes in two packages fear of failure, and sometimes, fear of success.
Tom Kite
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. I'm doing everything I can to sabotage my career. It's a little thing called "fear of success".
Jon Stewart
#7. As well as many subspecies, the main blocks are fear of failure after previous success, fear of success due to a sense of unworthiness, lack of potential venue, jaded attitude, crisis of confidence, evidence of persistent poor quality, lackadaisical motivation, and common everyday shortage of ideas.
Robert Genn
#8. Fear of Failure becomes Fear of Success for those who Never Try Anything New.
Wayne Dyer
#9. I don't mean to sound immodest, but I never had any doubt that I'd be successful, nor any fear of success. I was raised as a little goddess who was told she would be a star.
Irene Cara
#10. A fear of losing, of failure is a fear of success.
T Jay Taylor
#11. Our greatest fear is fear of success. When we are succeeding - that is, when we have begun to overcome our self-doubt and self-sabotage, when we are advancing in our craft and evolving to a higher level - that's when panic strikes.
Steven Pressfield
#12. When we really get serious about our insecurities, we usually find that three specific fears emerge: the fear of failure, the fear of success, and the fear of change.
Chris Guillebeau
#13. Far too often, it is at the moment where we finally stand on the very precipice of some great thing that we turn and abandon it, for it is at these seminal moments that fear wins and greatness dies. The beauty of Christmas is that God steps over precipices.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#15. The technique of tredding the success path is making a single step, and if you are kinda afraid to throw the second leg, hire divinity to pull you along.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#16. One of the key elements of human behavior is, humans have a greater fear of loss than enjoyment of success. All the academic studies will show you that the fear of loss of capital is far greater than the enjoyment of gains.
Laurence D. Fink
#17. The possibility of success was motivating me more than the fear of failure.
Herman Cain
#18. Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. - It is not fair. - He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people's mouths. - I do not like him, and do not mean to like Waverley if I can help it - but fear I must.
Jane Austen
#20. The only thing that stops you from from success is fear of the unknown
Thabiso Monkoe
#21. Our mind takes an inventory of past events and uses them to project the probability of success in the future. Depending on the information it gathers, we either move forward - or the
fear response is triggered and forward progress is circumvented. Page 48
Nick Ortner
#22. You have control over doing your respective duty, but no control or claim over the result. Fear of failure, from being emotionally attached to the fruit of work, is the greatest impediment to success because it robs efficiency by constantly disturbing the equanimity of mind.
Ramananda Prasad
#23. Fear can be good when you're walking past an alley at night or when you need to check the locks on your doors before you go to bed, but it's not good when you have a goal and you're fearful of obstacles. We often get trapped by our fears, but anyone who has had success has failed before.
Queen Latifah
#25. Cultivate your desire for success to be greater than the fear of failure; Failure is merely a pitstop between where you stand and success. Failure allows you to learn the fastest; Failure inspires winners and defeats losers.
Fran Tarkenton
#26. Mediocrity is my biggest fear. I'm not afraid of total failure because I don't think that will happen. I'm not afraid of success because that beats the hell out of failure. It's being in the middle that scares me.
Robert Downey Jr.
#27. Fear of failure prevents you from realising your dreams of success.
Habeeb Akande
#28. I don't fear failure because if you don't fail, you would not know the secret of success.
Sonam Kapoor
#29. I got a letter from a lightning rod company this morning trying to out the fear of God in me, but with small success. Lightning seems to have lost its menace. Compared to what is going on on earth today, heaven's firebrands are penny fireworks with wet fuses.
E.B. White
#30. Once you discover that failure is survivable, your fear of it subsides. Failure is not opposite to success, just part of its process.
T Jay Taylor
#31. She posed as being more indolent than she felt, for fear of finding herself less able than she could wish.
Elizabeth Bowen
#32. For me, this was all or nothing. I left no room for anything else. That goal was just for my own push, my own self-esteem. The fear of not being a success in my life made me push even harder.
Martin Lawrence
#33. Sometimes the way to personal freedom seems scary - Take the first step to begin the release of doubt and fear. Each new step builds confidence. Breathe. Don't look back.
Sheila Burke
#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
#35. When a man doesn't know the meaning of the word 'fear', that might just be a deficiency in his education.
Mark Steyn
#36. Biggest obstacle in the way of success is the fear of failure.
Debasish Mridha
#37. The four natural principles for success are: A clear goal, a definite plan, confidence, no fear of failure.
Robin Sieger
#38. School is indeed a training for later life not because it teaches the 3 Rs (more or less), but because it instills the essential cultural nightmare fear of failure, envy of success, and absurdity.
Jules Henry
#39. Don't panic, you are never alone in building up your dreams. The storehouse of your success was built by the very supreme father who created it for you.
Israelmore Ayivor
#40. A life spent at the edge of the pier is a life full of regret, a life full of fear.
Ryan Lilly
#41. I must have no fear of failure. It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the Master Work.
Paulo Coelho
#42. Deep inside us all, there is a perpetual conflict between our urge to succeed and the fear of taking action. The trouble is, taking action almost always precedes success.
Majid Kazmi
#43. The only thing that holds back from your success is fear of the unknown
Thabiso Monkoe
#44. When you can overcome the fear of failure, success will not be far away.
Debasish Mridha
#45. Do your thing. Do it unapologetically. Don't be discouraged by criticism. You probably already know what they're going to say. Pay no mind to the fear of failure. It's far more valuable than success. Take ownership, take chances, and have fun. And no matter what, don't ever stop doing your thing.
Asher Roth
#46. And, Father, most of all, you taught
Me there's a Pow'r in love that naught
Can thwart, and that it moves where truth
And courage speak, and neither youth
Nor age can hinder its success,
But only fear and quietness.
John Piper
#47. Running a marathon with a backpack is tough and may hinder you from winning the race. Don't let the baggage from your past - heavy with fear, guilt, and anger - slow you down.
Maddy Malhotra
#48. I shall not dwell in the past ...
I shall not dread the present ...
I shall not fear the Future ...
For as Long as I live ...
I shall only think of success.
Oscar Trejo Jr.
#49. Complexes can be the feelings of guilt, a victim complex, and fear of failure, criticism, poverty, and loneliness, loss of love, success, insecurity, denial, and low self-esteem
Sunday Adelaja
#50. You can't fear success and I think a lot of people do ... I'm not like that. I'm going for it.
Conor McGregor
#51. I wonder if the greatest temptation is self-rejection. Could it be that beneath all the lures to greed, lust, and success rests a great fear of never being enough or not being lovable?
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#52. Impeccability of the word can lead you to personal freedom, to huge success and abundance; it can take away all fear and transform it into joy and love.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#54. The keys of happiness and success lie beyond your fear fences. Jump over the fences NOW
Mohammed Sekouty
#55. Nothing is lost that we do not first see as lost. Visions born of fear give birth to our failing.
Visions born of hope give birth to our success.
What is possible lives within us, and it only remains for us to discover it.
Terry Brooks
#57. Our early success, blessing that it was, made us complacent and we weren't sufficiently afraid of what came next. Sometimes having a little fear early saves one from experiencing a big fear later on. [Al Gleeson in THE HALCYON DISLOCATION]
Peter Kazmaier
#58. If there had been no fear of failure, neither would there be any joy in success.
Paul Tournier
#59. Your dervish trade is strange. You sell words, which people buy out of fear or habit. He doesn't want to, or doesn't know how to sell words. He can't even sell silence. Or talent. And he doesn't care about success.
Mesa Selimovic
#60. To be a success, you have to break down your wall of fear that you built around you to protect yourself and come out of your mental limitations.
Debasish Mridha
#61. 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
#62. A champion is someone who has overcome a lot of fear.
Marty Rubin
#63. A 20/20 mindset eradicates any source of fear, doubt, and uncertainty. It produces a balanced life in which you are living your purpose and being fueled with your passion. You are connected directly to the source of greatness. Success is then a graceful gift.
Farshad Asl
#64. True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney
#65. The real problem is that most people fear failure, and thus take no action. They really they should be fearful of their thoughts that cause their failure to take action!
Tony Dovale
#66. Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.
Francis Chan
#67. fear can only be created by an enclosed mind happiness and laughter are all measures of are success when the reality are goals are all the same death
so the reality of success can be seen as a disguise to protect from the fear which is death
Richard Kent
#68. There is a very thin line of difference between a Pessimist and a Perfectionist. Both are scared to fail, strive for ideal but the only think unlike in the two is- Pessimist thinks it will last forever and Perfectionist knows it won't.
Jasleen Kaur Gumber
#69. The main reason of fear of failure lies in people's being unaware of the impact of misfortune on achieving success
Sunday Adelaja
#70. By reeducating the mind, you can accept fear as simply a fact of life rather than a barrier to success.
Susan Jeffers
#71. 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
#72. The greatest barrier of success is the fear of failure.
J.K. Potter
#73. Sometimes, the risks we take are so extreme that if things didn't work in our favor, we could lose EVERYTHING for the sake of our faith.
D. Nicole Williams
#74. Mind can be your best friend or worst enemy.
Kabira
#75. Fatalism is born of the fear of failure, for we all believe that we carry success in our own hands, and we suspect that our hands are weak.
Joseph Conrad
#76. The secret to life and the greatest success strategy of all is to love all of it and fear none of it.
Jon Gordon
#78. You crave winning and fear losing instead of just doing. To succeed you must remove your self-imposed limitations.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
#79. The only thing that stops you from success is fear of the unknown
Thabiso Monkoe
#80. Burn your fear of failure with the fire of desires that open the door of success.
Debasish Mridha
#81. Fear of failure is deceptive.
Don't do it, you'll fail, it says.
Courage is inceptive.
It's where success starts.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#82. Big is bad is a lie. It's quite possibly the worst lie of all, for if you fear big success, you'll either avoid it or sabotage your efforts to achieve it.
Gary Keller
#83. The things we do without the fear of failure and the desire for success are the purest acts we'll ever do
Alan Moore
#85. Adjusting our mindset for success is always at least half the battle. In the case of overcoming our fears, rather than being overcome by them, - it is 99% a war waged in our own head.
Connie Kerbs
#86. Those who are acquainted with failure acquire the unique ability to dare without fear of it.
Joyce Rachelle
#87. The flip side of success is fear. And fear is the devil. And success is the devil's dope.
Elizabeth Ashley
#88. Don't be fearless, but tame your fears, and stop at nothing.
Abhijit Naskar
#89. Let them see you cry. Let them see you sweat. Let them see you bleed. Those three drops make you human. Never fear to show your humanity. It's the bravest act of all.
Toni Sorenson
#90. While you're waiting on opportunity, it might be waiting on you to come to it. Get up and go get it!
Yvonne Pierre
#91. Remember, the goal is to take emotion out of investing because emotion is what so often destroys investing success, whether it's greed or fear.
Anthony Robbins
#92. Before you were born, and were still too tiny for the human eye to see, you won the race for life from among 250 million competitors. And yet, how fast you have forgotten your strength, when your very existence is proof of your greatness.
Suzy Kassem
#93. Fear is the genesis of most of the good things that have occurred in my life. Fear is the beginning of every success I've lived.
Georges St-Pierre
#94. Indecision and fear can cripple any chances of succeeding and lead to maelstroms of regret that fuel our most fantastic nightmares.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#95. We are so scared of losing everything that doesn't mean anything.
Bob Dylan
#97. It's better to die pursuing your dreams and destiny, than to live a life in fear of failure.
Jeanette Coron
#98. 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
#99. Fear is a healthy part of success.
Ne-Yo
#100. The greatest obstacle to success is the fear of failure.
Debasish Mridha
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