Top 100 Success Fear Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. Success is so fleeting; even if you get a good book deal, or your book is a huge success, there's always the fear: 'What about the next one?'
Dani Shapiro
#5. 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
#6. If you are in business trying to make it, things are falling apart and you can't get it together and you don't know what is going on and you wanna stop. Don't stop. The only way you can make it and have true success in your life. And there's one way. You can't have any fear.
Tyler Perry
#9. Fear comes in two packages fear of failure, and sometimes, fear of success.
Tom Kite
#11. 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
#12. Nothing will sabotage our happiness and success more thoroughly than the fear that we are not enough.
Bill Crawford
#13. Fear brings failure; faith brings success. It's just that simple.
Ernest Holmes
#16. 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.
#17. I don't fear failure because if you don't fail, you would not know the secret of success.
Sonam Kapoor
#18. 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
#19. Transcend your doubts.
Transcend your fears.
Transcend your weaknesses.
Transcend your limits.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#20. People may not like you, but that's cool because your heart doesn't beat from their liking. You can't live to please everyone, you're not a puppet
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#21. When you know you have unconditional love, there is no point in rebellion and no need to fear failure.
George W. Bush
#22. The eagle only knows how high it can fly when it spreads its wings.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#23. 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
#24. And by knowing what we fear, don't we know what we care about, how we are measuring our worth, what success looks like? I asked. So isn't fear helpful, then?
Patti Digh
#25. Do not fear your failures. More importantly, do not fear your successes. For if you let fear cripple you from acting, then you will stay stagnant forever.
Jennifer Megan Varnadore
#26. If I were to ever have enough material or the philosophical mind to write a book about what a good life ought to be, my thesis would be simply this: A good life is one that has managed to turn anxiety into hope, and fear into success. And that is what I call total virtue.
Mohammed Naseehu Ali
#27. A life spent at the edge of the pier is a life full of regret, a life full of fear.
Ryan Lilly
#28. I must have no fear of failure. It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the Master Work.
Paulo Coelho
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. 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.
#32. Most successful people move from fear to failure; to faith and then to fruitfulness. That's the trend.
Israelmore Ayivor
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. Failure is blindness to the strategic element in events; success is readiness for instant action when the opportune moment arrives.
Newell Dwight Hillis
#36. Appreciating others can be the catalyst that unleashes their greatness.
Lolly Daskal
#37. Fear drives you a lot harder than success does.
Nick Woodman
#38. 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
#40. If there had been no fear of failure, neither would there be any joy in success.
Paul Tournier
#41. Low key change helps the human mind circumnavigate the fear that blocks success and creativity.
Robert Maurer
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. 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
#45. The main reason of fear of failure lies in people's being unaware of the impact of misfortune on achieving success
Sunday Adelaja
#46. 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
#47. RVM's Thought for the Day - If you live in Fear, Success will disappear.
R.v.m.
#48. 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
#49. Mind can be your best friend or worst enemy.
Kabira
#51. Failure comes from ego, greed, envy, fear, imitation. I have success not because I am smart, but because I am rational.
Warren Buffett
#52. Fear of failure is deceptive.
Don't do it, you'll fail, it says.
Courage is inceptive.
It's where success starts.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#53. For some people, their fear to lose is greater than their desire to succeed, so they end up doing nothing and their dreams become impossible.
Rodolfo Costa
#54. 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
#55. Never allow doubt to roam unimpeded within you. When it arises acknowledge it immediately, and then exterminate it with extreme prejudice.
Noel DeJesus
#56. The things we do without the fear of failure and the desire for success are the purest acts we'll ever do
Alan Moore
#57. Fear strives for popularity, favor, and success in ways that are damaging to our soul. Fear goes around banging on pots and intimidating us by being noisy and pushy. Fear silences us until we lose our voice, if ever we had one. We
T.H. Meyer
#59. 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
#60. [In my pre-success years] there was a constant hunger, measuring myself against other actors, and there was sometimes fear. But, there was always a need for self-improvement, to help with the struggle to make myself a better actor.
John Goodman
#61. The flip side of success is fear. And fear is the devil. And success is the devil's dope.
Elizabeth Ashley
#62. If high aspirations = high fear, overcoming high fear = achieving high aspirations.
Richie Norton
#63. Without risk I have no fear, without any fear - what's the point, because I have no opportunity for success.
(Gavin Kaysen)
Chris Hill
#64. Fear of Failure becomes Fear of Success for those who Never Try Anything New.
Wayne Dyer
#65. We are so scared of losing everything that doesn't mean anything.
Bob Dylan
#66. It's better to die pursuing your dreams and destiny, than to live a life in fear of failure.
Jeanette Coron
#67. The greatest obstacle to success is the fear of failure.
Debasish Mridha
#68. If you're planning on quitting, first make sure it's not for one of these reasons:
Fear
Discomfort
Anger
Self-pity
Someone's negative opinions
Past failures
Unrealistic expectations
Charles F. Glassman
#69. 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
#70. A fear of losing, of failure is a fear of success.
T Jay Taylor
#71. Instant success are seldom instant and if you talk to the people behind these successes, you'll find out that they came after months of fear, uncertainty and confusion along with a flagrant lack of adoption.
Guy Kawasaki
#72. 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
#73. Fear goes hand-in-hand with artistic creation, and no amount of success will make the fear go away entirely.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
#74. People equate success with youth. And if you haven't had a certain amount of success by a certain time in your life, it's never going to happen. There's a fear about that. So people start lying about their age really young. I've never done that because I think it's so insignificant.
Jennifer Jason Leigh
#75. Happiness is a choice you make when you allow faith through the entry gate and fear through the exit gate.
Roopleen
#76. The antidote for fear of failure is not success but small doses of failure.
Mark Batterson
#77. With God, the fear of failure is slain cold by success that is already hot on the way.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#78. He who refuses to stoop, who cannot be bribed by the promise of success or the fear of failure - who walks the highway of the right, and in disaster stands erect, is the only victor.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#79. Believe you can and you will be halfway there.
Lolly Daskal
#80. Babbitt knew that in this place of death Paul was already dead. And as he pondered on the train home something in his own self seemed to have died: a loyal and vigorous faith in the goodness of the world, a fear of public disfavor, a pride in success.
Sinclair Lewis
#81. After 'Born to Run,' I had a reaction to my good fortune. With success, it felt like a lot of people who'd come before me lost some essential part of themselves. My greatest fear was that success was going to change or diminish that part of myself.
Bruce Springsteen
#82. If I can help one person realize their potential by removing fear and inadequacies from their mind, I am not only a success- I am a change agent.
Lasean Rinique
#83. If you live in Fear, Success will disappear.-RVM
R.v.m.
#84. So what motivates you more? The fear of failure or the fantastic feeling of achieving your dreams?
Farshad Asl
#85. You build walls & boundaries when you give into your mind. Fear nothing & take control of who you are & who you are meant to be
Joel Brown
#86. People refuse to take chances in business, because they fear the criticism which may follow if they fail. The fear of criticism, in such cases is stronger than the DESIRE for success.
Napoleon Hill
#87. The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.
Brian Tracy
#88. One of the keys to success is to ask questions to people you fear getting answers from.
Robert J. Braathe
#89. There are some things that could hold it together, notably oil revenues. But at the moment, the much vaunted surge has had a measure of success primarily, to my mind, because Sunni and Shia Iraqis hate and fear each other more these days than they hate and fear the Americans.
Patrick Cockburn
#90. Failure doesn't means falling down; it means hiding somewhere to safeguard own interest.
Ashish Patel
#91. The only thing you have to fear more than failure is success.
Ted Godwin
#93. I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.
Samuel Johnson
#94. ...Success is built upon failure - usually an endless line of them! Were I to live in fear of failing, then I should never venture to try anything. And if I am to fail, then I would that it be an Epic failure!
C.A. Clark
#95. The only thing that stops you from your success is the fear of the unknown
Thabiso Monkoe
#96. In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
Bill Cosby
#97. Failure isn't a problem. It's the fear of failure that's the limiting factor. You can't lose your nerve for the big failure, because it's the exact same nerve you need for the big success.
Regina E. Dugan
#99. If your motivation for acquiring money or success comes from a nonsupportive root such as fear, anger, or the need to "prove" yourself, your money will never bring you happiness.
T. Harv Eker
#100. He learned...never to show his anger or hatred against a stronger adversary, for fear of being crushed.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
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