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School is indeed a training for later life not because it teaches the 3 Rs (more or less), but because it instills the essential cultural nightmare fear of failure, envy of success, and absurdity.
Fear of failure is a far worse condition than failure itself, because it kills off possibilities.
Failure is delay, but not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead-end street.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by doing the thing which you think you cannot do.
FEAR IS THE MIND-KILLER. FEAR IS THE LITTLE-DEATH THAT BRINGS TOTAL OBLITERATION.
Fear of failure is the reason most often cited to explain why so many aspiring writers never realize their dreams. But I think it’s that same fear of failure that absolutely invigorates those who do push through-that is, the fear of not being heard.
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
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.
Fear stops a lot of people. Fear of failure, of the unknown, of risk._x000D_And it masks itself as procrastination.
There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal.
We've got to get rid of the fear of failure in this country. In America, people start things, fail and shake themselves down and start things again. The animal spirit of capitalism is stronger there.
Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.
The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction
It is not failure itself that holds you back; it is the fear of failure that paralyzes you.
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.
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
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.
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.
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