Top 100 The Fear Of Failure Quotes
#1. 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
#2. Negative thoughts are contagious and they get passed around like a disease. I inoculate myself against the fear of failure.
Bill Foster
#3. 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
#4. It is not failure itself that holds you back; it is the fear of failure that paralyzes you.
Brian Tracy
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. His advice to me is basically to just love what you do and don't let the fear of failure stop you.
Oliver Hudson
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. I don't fear failure because if you don't fail, you would not know the secret of success.
Sonam Kapoor
#19. 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
#21. Don't fear the unknown. Embrace the opportunity. Failure is not permanent it is the essence of learning.
W. Brett Wilson
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. I've been worryin' that we all, live our lives, in the confines of fear
Ben Howard
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
Jason Fried
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. The Fear of failure is the greatest fear of man. Even the fear of death is fear of failing to continue life.
Anup Kochhar
#36. 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.
#37. The biggest threat to creativity is fear, especially the fear of failure.
Kelly Leonard
#38. My procrastination which has held me back was born of fear ... now I know that to conquer fear I must always act without hesitation and the flutters in my heart will vanish. Now I know that action reduces the lion of terror ... I will walk where the failure fears to walk.
Og Mandino
#39. 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
#40. Often the biggest obstacle in meeting life's challenges is actually our own fear of failure.
Daisaku Ikeda
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. Looking back I see that I was always afraid of something: of the dark, of displeasing people, of failure. Anything I accomplished had to be done across a barrier of fear. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Eleanor Roosevelt
#44. 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
#45. Burn your fear of failure with the fire of desires that open the door of success.
Debasish Mridha
#46. Of course I don't want to get knocked down. But the single and sole solution to that fear is to not go anywhere where I can be knocked down. And is that not already being knocked down?
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. The freedom to choose ... means the freedom to make mistakes, to falter and fail, to come face-to-face with your own flaws and limitations and fears and secrets, to live with the terrible uncertainty that necessarily attends the construction of a self.
Caroline Knapp
#50. Put one foot in front of the other. Keep marching forward, even when doubt, fear, and failure all come knocking at your door.
Jared Leto
#51. There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.
Paulo Coelho
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. If you know the power of your thoughts, you would never fear failure.
Debasish Mridha
#56. There's one thing that makes a dream impossible to achive, the fear of failure
Paulo Coelho
#57. Every individual suffers from the fear of failure, but you can change your destiny only when you overcome it.
Anupam Kher
#58. Be courageous! First win the fear of failure to win the game of life.
Debasish Mridha
#59. 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
#60. Fear stops a lot of people. Fear of failure, of the unknown, of risk.
And it masks itself as procrastination.
Lisa Anderson
#61. Is there anything more heartbreaking than drowning in sight of land? Is there a single one of us who hasn't at least once felt haunted by the fear of slipping away within sight of a safe haven?
Carsten Jensen
#62. Sometimes it's easier to overcome a fall and a break than the fear of failure.
Lysa TerKeurst
#63. Half of the failures in life come from pulling one's horse when he is leaping.
Thomas Hood
#64. 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
#65. You cannot let a fear of failure or a fear of comparison or a fear of judgment stop you from doing what's going to make you great. You cannot succeed without this risk of failure. You cannot have a voice without the risk of criticism and you cannot love without the risk of loss.
Charlie Day
#66. Fear of failure is one of the principal fears creating obstacles in the way of successful self-actualization and achieving goals
Sunday Adelaja
#67. Take away fear of competition, of failure, of loss of markets, of humiliation, of becoming obsolete, and the culture would r stop; take away the fear the urnon man has of the boss and the union would blow away;
Anonymous
#68. Dreams come true if we can pursue them by overcoming the fear of failure.
Debasish Mridha
#69. 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
#70. A relationship run by rules, instead of love is a relationship that is on the road to failure.
Shannon L. Alder
#71. The word"boundaries" often relates directly to the word fear. In other words, we often limit ourselves from going beyond the"norm" because we think of it as being"risky" or because we're afraid of failure. It's easy to settle for average or normal. That's why the majority of us do!
Michael Harris
#72. Remember: The fear of something is always scarier than the thing itself. Yes, there is pain and rejection. But the greatest failure is to never risk at all.
Jeff Goins
#73. It occurs to me that John McCain is as intellectually shallow as our current President ... Bush goes bumbling along, grinning and spewing moronic one-liners, as though nobody understands what a colossal failure he has been ... I fear to the depth of my being that John McCain is just like him.
Jack Cafferty
#74. 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
#75. Secure your dreams for they are the wings of your soul, and, when vulnerable, flight is inconceivable.
B.G. Bowers
#76. Ultimately, fear of failure generates a vicious circle that creates what is most feared. To break this cycle, you need to make peace with failure. It isn't enough to merely tolerate it; you need to appreciate the failure and use it ...
Dan Millman
#77. The antidote for fear of failure is not success but small doses of failure.
Mark Batterson
#78. With God, the fear of failure is slain cold by success that is already hot on the way.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#79. One of the things my service in Iraq did give me was this freedom from fear of failure or any kind of expectations that I had to take a standard path.
Kevin Powers
#80. 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
#81. 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
#82. Failure feelings - fear, anxiety, lack of self-confidence - do not spring from some heavenly oracle. They are not written in the stars. They are not holy gospel. Nor are they intimations of a set and decided fate which means that failure is decreed and decided. They originate from your own mind.
Maxwell Maltz
#83. 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
#84. Dreams come true if we can overcome the fear of failure and pursue them.
Debasish Mridha
#85. 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
#86. I have self-doubt. I have insecurity. I have fear of failure. I have nights when I show up at the arena and I'm like, 'My back hurts, my feet hurt, my knees hurt. I don't have it. I just want to chill.' We all have self-doubt. You don't deny it, but you also don't capitulate to it. You embrace it.
Kobe Bryant
#87. 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
#88. 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
#89. The only failed book is the one that was never written, out of fear-of-failure.
Giuseppe Bianco
#90. Great achievers are driven, not so much by the pursuit of success, but by the fear of failure.
Larry Ellison
#91. So what motivates you more? The fear of failure or the fantastic feeling of achieving your dreams?
Farshad Asl
#92. 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
#93. The fear of failure is worse than the failure itself. So be bold and courageous.
Debasish Mridha
#94. 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
#95. Fear is the ultimate cause of failure and disappointment.
Emmet Fox
#96. Don't let the fear of failure keep you away from your Destiny.
Jeanette Coron
#97. Your dreams and goals are bigger than small minded people or the fears that they harbor. Don't let their ocean of fear trap you in the undertow.
Jaha Knight
#98. If you dump the fear of failure, you will eventually marry success.
Jeanette Coron
#99. You sorta lose the fear of failure when everyone thinks you already gave it your best shot and blew it.
Brian Wood
#100. Success and failure are two edges of the same blade, two sides of the same coin. To fear one is to forever deny the possibility of the other.
Michelle Sagara West
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