Quotes on Fear Of Failure

We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure-all your life.

One who fears failure limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again.

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

Failure is not the opposite of success; it's part of success.

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown

I wasn't going to be one of those people who died wondering what if? I would keep putting my dreams to the test - even though it meant living with uncertainty and fear of failure. This is the shadowland of hope, and anyone with a dream must learn to live there.

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

There was never any fear for me, no fear of failure. If I miss a shot, so what?

I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.

When perfectionism is driving us, shame is riding shotgun and fear is that annoying backseat driver!

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone.

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.

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

At first I wasn't sure that I had the talent, but I did know I had a fear of failure, and that fear compelled me to fight off anything that might abet it.

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure.

No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn't trying.

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.

Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.

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