Top 100 The Fear Of Failure Quotes
#1. Don't let the fear of failure or failure as a whole stop you from becoming an entrepreneur. Failure doesn't define you or your business unless you allow it to.
Jeet Banerjee
#2. The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one's children has led to a whole library of books offering advice on how to raise them.
Bruno Bettelheim
#4. The possibility of success was motivating me more than the fear of failure.
Herman Cain
#5. Negative thoughts are contagious and they get passed around like a disease. I inoculate myself against the fear of failure.
Bill Foster
#6. It is not failure itself that holds you back; it is the fear of failure that paralyzes you.
Brian Tracy
#7. I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large.
Garry Shandling
#9. His advice to me is basically to just love what you do and don't let the fear of failure stop you.
Oliver Hudson
#10. Sometimes the fear of failure steals the beauty we were meant to create.
Angie Smith
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. Teachers' using grades and the fear of failure mould the brains of the young until they have lost every ounce of imagination they might once have possessed.
Paul Karl Feyerabend
#17. We've got to get rid of the fear of failure in this country. In America, people start things, fail and shake themselves down and start things again. The animal spirit of capitalism is stronger there.
Rupert Murdoch
#18. Biggest obstacle in the way of success is the fear of failure.
Debasish Mridha
#19. Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.
Jack Lemmon
#20. Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
Jason Fried
#21. When you can overcome the fear of failure, success will not be far away.
Debasish Mridha
#22. 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
#23. I don't look at football as a violent, barbaric sport. It's a very spiritual sport, especially for someone facing the challenges during a game: the fear of failure, the fear of getting too big an ego, of making a mistake and everybody criticizing you.
Troy Polamalu
#24. I find writing very difficult. It's hard and it hurts sometimes, and it's scary because of the fear of failure and the very unpleasant feeling that you may have reached the limit of your abilities.
Tony Kushner
#25. Over commitment in business is usually due to a lack of faith, which results in fear - specifically, the fear of failure. But if we really believe God is in control, then we also should believe He's able to make us successful while we are keeping our lives in balance.
Larry Burkett
#26. The Fear of failure is the greatest fear of man. Even the fear of death is fear of failing to continue life.
Anup Kochhar
#27. The biggest threat to creativity is fear, especially the fear of failure.
Kelly Leonard
#28. A coward worships the limits of impossibilities, obeys the rule of uncertainty, respects the forces of doubt, and magnifies the fear of failure.
Olarewaju Oladipo
#29. The greatest barrier of success is the fear of failure.
J.K. Potter
#30. Remember this: the number one cause of failure in this country is the fear of failure. Fear paralyzes you from taking action.
Steve Harvey
#31. 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
#32. You can't be held captive by the fear of failure or the fear of what people may say.
Kobe Bryant
#33. The only thing standing between most people and their dreams is the fear of failure.
Robin S. Sharma
#34. 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
#35. The things we do without the fear of failure and the desire for success are the purest acts we'll ever do
Alan Moore
#36. I don't know which is stronger: the thrill of winning or the fear of failure. I don't know which one affects me most. I don't know where the middle is.
Tony McCoy
#37. There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.
Paulo Coelho
#38. There's one thing that makes a dream impossible to achive, the fear of failure
Paulo Coelho
#39. Every individual suffers from the fear of failure, but you can change your destiny only when you overcome it.
Anupam Kher
#40. The desire to succeed has a lot less compulsion than the fear of failure.
Gerald Seymour
#41. The
number one cause of failure in this country is the fear of failure
Steve Harvey
#42. Be courageous! First win the fear of failure to win the game of life.
Debasish Mridha
#43. If you can overtake the fear of failure
you will be a winner in life, for sure.
Debasish Mridha
#44. Sometimes it's easier to overcome a fall and a break than the fear of failure.
Lysa TerKeurst
#45. Writing comes from the fear of failure not from the joy of winning.
Debasish Mridha
#46. 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
#47. Perfectionism is not as much the desire for excellence, as it is the fear of failure couched in procrastination .
Dan Miller
#49. 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
#50. The greatest obstacle to success is the fear of failure.
Debasish Mridha
#51. Dreams come true if we can pursue them by overcoming the fear of failure.
Debasish Mridha
#52. Mutual commitment helps overcome the fear of failure - especially when people are part of a team sharing and achieving goals. It also sets the stage for open dialogue and honest conversation.
Mike Krzyzewski
#53. The fear of failure, the fear of being imperfect (perfectionism), and the fear of impossible expectations (being overwhelmed) that prevent us from acting on and attaining humanly possible goals and relationships.
Neil A. Fiore
#54. I have a lack of fear, whereas in the past the fear of failure was a powerful motivator. Anyway, I have great expectations for the future, but I just don't know if I'm the monarch of all I survey.
Sylvester Stallone
#55. In moments of uncertainty, when you must chose between two paths, allowing yourself to be overcome by either the fear of failure or the dimly lit light of possibility, immerse yourself in the life you would be most proud to live.
Adam Braun
#56. With God, the fear of failure is slain cold by success that is already hot on the way.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#57. 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
#58. To achieve greatness, we must overcome the fear of failure and dare to take great risks.
Debasish Mridha
#59. The fear of failure kills creativity and intelligence. The only thing it produces is conformity.
Anup Kochhar
#60. 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
#61. Dreams come true if we can overcome the fear of failure and pursue them.
Debasish Mridha
#62. The fear of failure is not just the greatest fear of man, it is the fear of man. All other fears are avatars of the fear of failure.
Anup Kochhar
#63. Every successful person has had to overcome the fear of failure.
Debasish Mridha
#64. I've probably earned the right to screw up a few times. I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.
Emma Watson
#65. Great achievers are driven, not so much by the pursuit of success, but by the fear of failure.
Larry Ellison
#66. So what motivates you more? The fear of failure or the fantastic feeling of achieving your dreams?
Farshad Asl
#67. The fear of failure is worse than the failure itself. So be bold and courageous.
Debasish Mridha
#68. To overcome the fear of failure, do what makes you fearful.
Debasish Mridha
#69. Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.
Paulo Coelho
#70. If a person is living out his Personal Legend, he knows everything he needs to know. There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure." "I'm
Paulo Coelho
#71. Claritypoint: You can choose to see your journey as a classroom without the fear of failure. Or you can choose to live in fear and see it as a test. It's up to you.
Kimberly Giles
#72. Don't let the fear of failure keep you away from your Destiny.
Jeanette Coron
#73. The only paths you can't travel are the ones you block yourself--so don't let the fear of failure stop you from trying in the first place.
William Ritter
#74. 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
#75. If you dump the fear of failure, you will eventually marry success.
Jeanette Coron
#76. You sorta lose the fear of failure when everyone thinks you already gave it your best shot and blew it.
Brian Wood
#78. Because (grandparents) are usually free to love and guide and befriend the young without having to take daily responsibility for them, they can often reach out past pride and fear of failure and close the space between generations.
Jimmy Carter
#79. She relived the frantic shopping and packing, the last teary gatherings with friends, the fear of a faceless roommate, the terror of academic failure. She also relived the excitement, because, in hindsight, going to college had been the single most pivotal point in her life.
Barbara Delinsky
#80. Fear is an enemy to fight and defeat and not an enemy to fear. Fear of falling, fear of the unknown, fear of making mistakes, fear of trying new ideas, fear of failure or fear of those already there."
~ Ikechukwu Joseph
Ikechukwu Joseph
#81. 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
#82. Conflict manipulation is the favored strategy of people who incessantly worry about failure, of managers who excel at motivational chats that point out the highly unpleasant consequences if the company's goals are not achieved, and of social movements that attempt to mobilize people through fear.
Peter M. Senge
#83. Working with food was fraught with anxiety when I was a girl. Like all farmers, we were at the mercy of the weather, and we lived in fear of crop failure.
Bobbie Ann Mason
#84. Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins.
Charles F. Stanley
#85. Where something even deeper than the marrow knows that the cost of avoiding what one fears is even greater than the actual object of that fear and so the fear itself is even more corrosive even more destructive than all the frightening potential of the thing that arouses it.
Joe Henry
#86. I don't fear failure because if you don't fail, you would not know the secret of success.
Sonam Kapoor
#88. Don't fear the unknown. Embrace the opportunity. Failure is not permanent it is the essence of learning.
W. Brett Wilson
#89. We spend so much time being afraid of failure, afraid of rejection. But 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.
Trevor Noah
#90. Knowing failure is part of our process, and leads to new ideas, stronger work, and more honest questions, liberates us to peer, a little less frightened, into the unknown.
David DuChemin
#91. I've been worryin' that we all, live our lives, in the confines of fear
Ben Howard
#92. Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.
Louis E. Boone
#93. Don't let fear of failure discourage you. Don't let the voice of critics paralyze you - whether that voice comes from the outside or the inside.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#94. Fear of failure is always a driver but the thirst for more is a good one too ... So I think you need a little bit of both.
Ronda Rousey
#95. If you're living life from a place of fear, you're not free to take risks or pursue your dreams. If your energy is expended in avoiding failure or rejection, then that energy is used to stay safe, instead of being available to create the life you envision.
Lauren Mackler
#96. What you create doesn't have to be perfect. So what if the eggs are greasy or the toast is burned? Don't let fear of failure discourage you.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#97. Failure is another emotion I cannot stand to feel, because in adult life I have conditioned myself not to fail at anything. Failure takes me straight back to the feelings of worthlessness I grew up with as a stammering, reclusive little boy.
Jake Wood
#98. It's tough, acting. You have to walk two lines of a tightrope. There's the all-consuming fear of failure: I'm about to fall flat on my face. There's that and there's also confidence - you have to be confident in order to try things - and they fight each other all the time.
Jessica Chastain
#99. 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
#100. 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.
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