Best 108 quotes in «fear of failure quotes» category

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.

Sometimes people have to remind you to aim high. Most of us are afraid of aiming high for fear of failure and our biggest failure is that we aim too low.

The great fear I've had to overcome is the fear of failure. You have to be willing to be afraid, if you're going to be an artist.

The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction

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.

There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything.

The truth is when you have a movie that was as successful as 'Chronicle' was, it's not as quick of a process. There are a lot more voices coming in and saying 'This is what the sequel should be' because there's a bigger expectation and a bigger fear of failure. And that's really what's going on with 'Chronicle 2.'

You can't be paralyzed by fear of failure or you will never push yourself.

A coward worships the limits of impossibilities, obeys the rule of uncertainty, respects the forces of doubt, and magnifies the fear of failure.

Be courageous! First win the fear of failure to win the game of life.

Because of self-doubt, the fear of failure, or laziness, most people usually bite off way less than they can chew.

Begin a new life today without any fear! Let's go over it together.

Burn your fear of failure with the fire of desires that open the door of success.

Being loved back by the person he loved to the point where he couldn't cope anymore with the vulnerable reciprocity of giving and receiving, he ended the relationship to get it over with before he lost it

Burn your fear of failure with the fire of desire so that you may open the door of success.

But if detachment is really fear of failure and hence never putting oneself to the test, or if it’s fear of being hurt, humiliated or rejected, then one is closing all doors to life, to the possibilities of happiness, pain, dejection, achievement and experience. Reincarnation may be on the cards for most of us but we live this particular life, whether it is maya or whatever else, only once. This is our only chance to engage it. Excess

Confidence is what we get when we take fear, face it and replace it.

Can we quantify failure in degrees and say, ‘on a 10 point scale this failure causes this much pain?’ Extremely difficult.

Comfort and the fear of change are the greatest enemies of success.

Don't let the fear of failure keep you away from your Destiny.

Don’t think about the possibilities of failing. Never forget to think about the possibilities of flying.

Every goal has a road block; that is our fear of failure.

Employment is the exploitation of the employer’s courage, and, the employed’s fear of failure.

Even greater than my fear that l was crazy, was my lifelong dread that someone would find out.

Expecting difficulties is wise, if that usually gives you the strength to continue, and foolish, if that usually takes away the courage to begin.

Every successful person has had to overcome the fear of failure.

Fear is a notification of some weakness that needs to be cleared.

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.

Failure is a social taboo.

Failure is like flu. It can happen to anyone. Just as it is difficult to find a person who hasn’t had the flu, it is difficult to find someone who has not been stuck by failure at some time.

Fear always devalues your capability by saying: you are not good enough to pursue your dreams or what if you fail to fulfil your dreams. But your inner ability always says, you are able, you have what it takes, you can do it, don't give up. Follow your inner ability and you will never go wrong.

Fear least have power! The power of fear lies in the power of our fears. Without the power of our fears, fear is least empowered!

Fear of failure prevents you from realising your dreams of success.

Failure per se is not a disease but it can trigger anxiety, depression and even suicide. If failure can strike anyone, how can we handle it? Medical science has a well-defined mechanism in place for dealing with diseases – it identifies the symptoms and then prescribes a methodology for their management. Psychologists and Psychiatrists have management practices for dealing with anxiety and depression. But do we have a method for dealing with failure?

Fear of failure is fiction, face this fact and fear will fall.

Fears hide within fears....

Fear will do one thing and one thing only: hold you back

...he began to fear whether in the presence of far greater events, all his acts would not fade into insignificance, just as a drop of rain disappears into the sea.

How many of us stop short of success on purpose? How many of us sabotage our own happiness because failure, while miserable, is a fear we're familiar with? Success, however, dreams come true, are a whole new kind of terrifying, an entire new species of responsibilities and disillusions, requiring a new way to think, act and become. Why do we REALLY quit? Because it's hopeless? Or because it's possible...

How can you be afraid to feel? Isn’t fear a feeling? If you’re feeling fear, you’ve felt one of the most negative emotions there is to feel. Everything else should be a piece of cake.

How does a child of six or seven, perceive failure or success? It is society – parents, teachers, relatives and neighbors, who together brand him a failure. And it is this branding that creates the fear of failure in him.

If we were all pears, our parents might tell us, it is perfectly normal to be green before you are golden.

If you dump the fear of failure, you will eventually marry success.

If you’re trying and failing, you’re still getting one step closer to success than if you’re doing nothing. You don’t fail; you only learn what works and what does not. Failure is not an option only learning and getting better.

In business, the size of our success is partly attributable to the fear of failure that has prevented some people from being our competitors.

Modesty is fear.

Let fear once get possession of the soul, and it does not readily yield its place to another sentiment. Sebastopol by Leo Tolstoy

Feedback doesn’t tell you about yourself. It tells you about the person giving the feedback. In other words, if someone says your work is gorgeous, that just tells you about *their* taste. If you put out a new product and it doesn’t sell at all, that tells you something about what your audience does and doesn’t want. When we look at praise and criticism as information about the people giving it, we tend to get really curious about the feedback, rather than dejected or defensive.

It is important you understand how fear affects you and how it drives human behavior so you can start to see situations and people accurately and respond more appropriately. When someone is behaving badly, attacking you, or being defensive, critical, or judgmental, it is not really about you. Fear is the real reason people behave badly. Their fears make them selfish, defensive, mean, and grouchy. Every time someone is behaving badly, step back and ask yourself, “What is this person afraid of? What fear inside me is driving my reaction to their attack? What am I afraid of?” When you can accurately see the fear behind their behavior, and yours, you will see the situation for what it really is.

it’s being branded a failure that causes the most pain; when ‘failure’ changes from being a verb to becoming a noun.