Fear Of Failure Quotes

“Many times, the thought of fear itself is greater than what it is we fear.”
― Idowu Koyenikan, Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability

“Mindless fear is greater than mindful fear.”
― Idowu Koyenikan

“He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

“A fear of weakness only strengthens weakness.”
― Criss Jami, Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile

“Criticism is just someone else’s opinion. Even people who are experts in their fields are sometimes wrong. It is up to you to choose whether to believe some of it, none of it, or all of it. What you think is what counts.”
― Rodolfo Costa, Advice My Parents Gave Me: and Other Lessons I Learned from My Mistakes

“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…”
― Paulo Coelho, The Pilgrimage

“Ne treba čovjek da se pretvori u svoju suprotnost. Sve što u njemu vrijedi, to je ranjivo. Možda nije lako živjeti na svijetu, ali ako mislimo da nam ovdje nije mjesto, biće još gore. A željeti snagu i bezosjećajnost, znači svetiti se sebi zbog razočarenja. I onda, to nije izlaz, to je dizanje ruku od svega što čovjek može da bude. Odricanje svih obzira je prastari strah, davna suština ljudskog bića koje želi moć, jer se boji.”
― Meša Selimović, Death and the Dervish

“We may sometimes forget that delaying commitments is often rooted in anxiety, rigorousness, fear of failure, or anxiety about saying the wrong words and not being able to offer the right support. (“All the words he always wanted to tell her”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

“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...”
― Jennifer DeLucy

“...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.”
― Henryk Sienkiewicz, In Desert and Wilderness

“Don’t think about the possibilities of failing. Never forget to think about the possibilities of flying.”
― Debasish Mridha

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

“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 , Among You: The Extraordinary True Story of a Soldier Broken By War

“No one except your husband knows of the cautiousness at the heart of your life. Your adulthood has been a progressive retreat from curiosity and wonder, an endless series of delays and procrastinations. You wanted to be so much, once, but life kept on getting in the way... You settled. Shunned creativity, flight, risk, never had the courage to give a dream, any dream, a go.”
― Nikki Gemmell, The Bride Stripped Bare

“Failure is blindness to the strategic element in events; success is readiness for instant action when the opportune moment arrives.
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― Newell D. Hillis

“Fear is a notification of some weakness that needs to be cleared.”
― Aagam Shah

“Failure is delay but not defeat.
It is a temporary detour, not a dead-end street.”
― William Arthur Ward

“Sorry, Ulric," I whispered. "I've learned to fear someone else more than I do you."
He frowned. "Who?"
"The man... I used to be.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Frugal Wizard's Handbook for Surviving Medieval England

“You see, it's easy for someone to walk around telling everyone that they're "jus' waitin' for the right opportunity," but an entirely different thing when they actually receive it. An opportunity means change. An opportunity means action. But most of all, an opportunity means the chance of failure. And it's the potential of failure, more than failure itself, that stops so many people from beginning anything.”
― Mateo Askaripour, Black Buck

“But the benefit of starting from rock bottom is that you've basically been handed a gift: a clean slate. Your pride's been demolished, your ego is pulverized, your fear of failure has been realized in its most brutal forms, you are...free.

Suddenly you're able to shake the judgment of others in a way you never could before, because you no longer give a shit what they think! You've entered a primal survival stage, one you didn't even realize existed. Now all your energy must be reserved for action, for making things happen.”
― Sarah Centrella, #FutureBoards: Learn How to Create a Vision Board to Get Exactly the Life You Want

“It is not how heavy you fall.
It is how fast you catch yourself.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“You have permission to meet your expectations. The Universe is multi-dimensional. Fear is one-sided.”
― Jaclyn Johnston

“The only true failure is allowing fear of failure to prevent you from acting and pursuing your dreams.”
― Shree Shambav, Life Changing Journey - 365 Inspirational Quotes - Series - I

“And so she couldn't even feel proud about taking one step forward in search of happiness. Not when she had reason to fear where that step would lead her next.”
― Shauna Robinson, Must Love Books

“Everything was an excuse. The felt so concrete, so real at the time. Now they are wispy, pathetic. I was terrified. If I participated in the world I moved closer to, then I would have to stomach the chance that I might fail at every task I tackled.
I didn't want to fail at being Native. Being Native to me then meant not only having the experience of all of these cultural things, but also being decent at them. I wanted to feel a peace in myself that cultural things brought me, but I had never felt so out of my depth. Failure felt imminent.
But I couldn't fail at something I never had the chance to try. So the excuses continued to pour from me, sweetly apologetic to hide the stench of the rotting fear that created them.”
― Leah Myers, Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity

“Dare to fail and you will never fail to dare!”
― Selma Benkiran, Inventor Adventure

“We come up wrapped around each other, water rushing off our bodies, gasping for air. I feel exorcised and electrified. Not fixed, but better. Like maybe I'm not the sum of my mistakes, my failures, my fears. Like maybe it's not too late to fight for what I want, if I can admit it to myself. That it's okay to have hope, to try, even if it doesn't turn out the way I expect. - Noelle, page 191”
― Jessica Joyce

“Many people fear moving on because of the long journey.”
― Onipede Ayomide

“Four out of five,” Mamaw says. Her body clicks and groans as she shuffles to the edge of the porch. “How much time do you think I have?”

Jude flinches.

“Four out of five,” Maya agrees. “You’ll never outrun your bones like this.”
― Addison Lane, Blackpines: The Antlers Witch: The Light in Her Dreams

“I-ați explicat instrucțiunile pentru candidați?”, mi-au șuierat pe la urechi cuvintele președintelui comisiei de examen, la care am răspuns cu un „Da” de confruntare. Moment în care președintele iese val-vârtej din sala de examen și mă lasă în fața ochilor cu candidatul: o femeie în jur de 40 de ani căreia îi țâșnesc lacrimile, mâinile îi tremură, respirația îi este bolovănoasă. Cuvintele care îi ies din gâtlej zgârie liniștea spațiului cultivată de ceilalți 14 candidați care așteaptă să îi răspund: „Și eu acum ce fac?”
― Carmen Neagu nee Eni, Tezaur de greșeli. Ghid de supraviețuire pentru profesori