Fear of Failure Quotes

Here`s a subject we can all relate to: Fear of Failure

Ok, maybe not everyone reading this has this fear.  But we`re not all super-humans.

For those of us who need little pick-me-up`s to help in this area, here are some quotes on the fear of failure:

1. They fail, and they alone, who have not striven. -Thomas Bailey Aldrich

2. He that is down needs fear no fall. -John Bunyan

3. I was never afraid of failure, for I would sooner fail than not be among the best. -John Keats

4. It is foolish to fear what you cannot avoid. -Publius Syrus

5. Go back a little to leap further. -John Clarke

6. Half of the failures in life come from pulling one’s horse when he is leaping. -Thomas Hood

7. It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. -Theodore Roosevelt

8. Our doubts are our traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt. -William Shakespeare

9. There is no impossibility to him who stands prepared to conquer every hazard. The fearful are the failing. -Sarah J. Hale

10. We learn wisdom from failure much more than success. We often discover what we will do, by finding out what we will not do. -Samuel Smiles

11. Failure teaches success. -Japanese Saying

12. There is no failure except in no longer trying. -Elbert Hubbard

13. Disappointments are to the soul what thunderstorms are to the air. -Johann Schiller

14. Do one thing every day that scares you. -Eleanor Roosevelt

15. If your life is free from failure, you’re not taking enough risks. -Anonymous

16. Many great ideas have been lost because people who had them could not stand being laughed at. -Anonymous

17. You’ll always miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. -Wayne Gretzky

18. I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean. -G.K. Chesterton

19. To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself. -Soren Kierkegaard

20. We fail more often by timidity than by over-daring. -David Grayson

21. One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. -Andre Gide

22. Take risks: if you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wise. -Anonymous

23. To win you have to risk loss. -Jean-Claude Killy

24. To eat an egg, you must break the shell. -Jamaican Proverb

25. The more chance there is of stubbing your toe, the more chance you have of stepping into success. -Anonymous

26. It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves—in finding themselves. -Andre Gide

27. There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything. -Vauvenargues

28. If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being? -Aleksander Solzhenitsyn

29. The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not a closet. -Lord Philip Chesterfield

30. Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark; professionals built the Titanic. -Anonymous

31. Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing. -Unknown

32. There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming. -Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855)

33. Humans, with the capacities of higher-order thinking, can overcome limiting behaviors and fears. -Paul R. Scheele

34. Try a thing you haven’t done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not. -Virgil Thomson

35. Fear is the single strongest motivating force in our lives. The more frightened you become, the better your chances of achieving successes. -Lois Korey

36. The most ominous of fallacies: the belief that things can be kept static by inaction. -Freya Stark (1893-1993)

37. When thinking won’t cure fear, action will. -W. Clement Stone (1902-2002)

38. Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them. -Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924)

39. Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will. -James Stephens (1882-1950)

40.  Do what you fear and fear disappears. -David J. Schwartz

41. Whenever we’re afraid, its because we don’t know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid. -Earl Nightingale (1921-1989)

42. Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. -Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1895)

43. If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been. -Robert H. Schuller

Wow! There are quite a few good ones here. 

Which ones jump out at you? 

What are you going to do now that all your fears are gone?

-Shawn