Best 108 quotes in «fear of failure quotes» category

What does failure do to us? We fall into a vicious downward spiral. Failure is a lot like a shot from a double barrel gun but with a difference. The first shot is like the news which explodes in one’s face. But it is the second, after a short time lag, which causes the most damage. It comprises of pain, humiliation, shame, frustration and anger. The first shot pales in comparison. It is life after the blast that causes the most hurt.

Those who are acquainted with failure acquire the unique ability to dare without fear of it.

To live a creative life we must first lose the fear of being wrong.

We all have faced fearful times.

We are often deterred, not by what others think or would think, but by what we think they think or would think.

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.

You speak of being afraid. Yet fear is something you generate in yourself, from your mind's lack of control; and you will learn to look at it and discover for yourself when you choose to be afraid. The first thing you must do is acknowledge that the fear is yours, and you can bid it come and go at will. Begin with this; whenever you feel fear that prevents choice say to yourself: 'What has made me feel fear? Why have I chosen to feel this fear preventing my choice, instead of feeling the freedom to choose?' Fear is a way of not allowing yourself to choose freely what you will do next; a way of letting your body's reflexes, not the needs of your mind, choose for you. ...[Y]ou have chosen to do nothing, so that none of the things you fear will come upon you; so your choices are not made by you but by your fear. ... I cannot promise to free you of your fear, only that a time will come when you are the master, and fear will not paralyze you.

Do not let fear of failure overwhelms joy success

Don't permit fear of failure to prevent effort. We are all imperfect and will fail on occasions, but fear of failure is the greatest failure of all.

Don't permit fear of failure to prevent effort.

When people grows older and older their fear increases higher and higher

While you're waiting on opportunity, it might be waiting on you to come to it. Get up and go get it!

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.

Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.

Fear of failure is a ticket to mediocrity. If you’re not failing from time to time, you’re not pushing yourself. And if you’re not pushing yourself, you’re coasting.

Fear of Failure becomes Fear of Success for those who Never Try Anything New.

Fear stops a lot of people. Fear of failure, of the unknown, of risk. And it masks itself as procrastination.

Fear of failure and fear of the unknown are always defeated by faith. Having faith in yourself, in the process of change, and in the new direction that change sets will reveal your own inner core of steel.

Fear of failure is what fuels me, keeps me on edge and sharp. I'm not as good when I'm comfortable.

Have pity on those who are fearful of taking up a pen, or a paintbrush, or an instrument, or a tool because they are afraid that someone has already done so better than they could.

His advice to me is basically to just love what you do and don't let the fear of failure stop you.

If there had been no fear of failure, neither would there be any joy in success.

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.

If you can't embrace both failure or the possibility of failure, or the tremendous fear of failure, you can't be wildly successful. It's just an axiomatic truth.

If a movie goes south, it might not capsize me the way it used to. But I still have a terrible fear of failure. I'm a huge worrier.

If you do what you love, hold nothing back, and never let fear of failure get in your way, then you've pretty much figured out the Trump formula.

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.

I'm not scared of anything in particular, but I am motivated by a fear of failure as opposed to a need to succeed.

Every entrepreneur deals with fears of failure. However, the truly successful know how to face these fears and keep on working.

I must have no fear of failure. It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the Master Work.

Is your fear of failure greater than your desire to succeed?

Play with no fear of failure.

I think everyone shares a fear of failure-that you're only as good as your most recent collection.

Perfectionism is not as much the desire for excellence, as it is the fear of failure couched in procrastination .

Often the biggest obstacle in meeting life’s challenges is actually our own fear of failure.

One reason people never attempt new things is their fear of failure.

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 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.

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

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

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.'

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.

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

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.

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

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

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