Quotes about fear-of-failure

Fear sees, even when eyes are closed.

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.

The fear of failure kills creativity and intelligence. The only thing it produces is conformity.

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?

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.

Failure is a social taboo.

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

The Fear of failure is the greatest fear of man. Even the fear of death is fear of failing to continue life,

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.

The fear of failure is a liability.

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

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

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.

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

Fears hide within fears....

Many times, the thought of fear itself is greater than what it is we fear.

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

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

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

Sometimes, the risks we take are so extreme that if things didn’t work in our favor, we could lose EVERYTHING for the sake of our faith.

...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.

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

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

Much of our Fear, is based in the fear of loss. We fear losing our own lives. We fear death for our family and friends. We fear the loss of our means of survival. In the Western World that's tied up in the way we make money to support ourselves and families. In many parts of the World, it's more basic: food and water. We fear violence, oppression. We fear others.

Oscar leaned in, eyes wide. 'He's keeping me,' he whispered to the kitten.Pebble chirped. Oscar's eyes flicked to the books underneath his bed. They called out to him: Misfit. Orphan. Idiot.Oscar coughed and shifted his eyes back to Pebble. 'He thinks I can work the shop. ... He said he knew I could do it.'Wolf: He didn't see you work the shop. He doesn't know. Just wait until he hears.'He wants me to do the best I can.'Wolf: If only he knew how bad that was. He'll know soon.Oscar clenched his h

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.

Mindless fear is greater than mindful fear.

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

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

The greatest obstacle to success is the fear of failure.

To overcome the fear of failure, do what makes you fearful.

You cannot reach the pinnacle of success without overcoming the fear of failure just like you can’t reach space without overcoming the attraction of gravity.

When you can overcome the fear of failure, success will not be far away.

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

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

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

Nothing holds you back more than fear of failure.

The fear of failure is worse than the failure itself. So be bold and courageous.

Your need to feel significant will never be met, until you can conquer your fear and manage your focus.

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.

The greatest mountain anyone can conquer is fear.

Life is so much better when we dwell on awe-inspired thoughts.

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

The empty spaces of your soul are the ones you search for, pray for and want so desperately to be filled. They are also the spaces that will never be filled, until you are ready to do something you have never done.

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!

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

A fear of weakness only strengthens weakness.

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

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.

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...

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

We all have faced fearful times.

You don't have to apologize for loving someone or wanting a life that no longer fits your blueprint. The beginning phase of reclaiming your life always starts with apologizing to yourself, then apologizing to others for wasting their time because of your fear based decisions. The truth is when we eliminate fear we often find the real path we were meant to be on.

The one thing I was good at was winning scholarships and prizes, and that era was coming to an end.

The greatest battle you must undertake, the foremost battle you must wage, the most important battle that there is, is the battle of courage versus fear – and there can be only one victor – that victor must be you and courage, or it shall be the dark side and death.

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

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

A failure is not one who has attempted and failed but one who has failed to attempt for fear of failing.