Quotes About Fear

Instead of being afraid of the challenge and failure, be afraid of avoiding the challenge and doing nothing

Failure is not fun. It can be awful. But living so cautiously that you never fail is worse.

We are neurotically haunted today by the imminence, and by the ignominy, of failure. We know at how frightening a cost one succeeds: to fail is something too awful to think about.

The main cause of failure is the inability to deal with self-doubt.

I MUST go to what desperately frightens me - the chance of failure.

The unfulfilling job is not the failure; not pursuing your dreams is the real failure. Developing a vision requires conquering your fears and finding motivation from within.

I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance.

The greatest secret of winners is that failure inspires winning; thus, they are not afraid of losing.

There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail

When you get rid of your fear of failure, your tensions about succeeding... you can be yourself. Relaxed. You'll no longer be driving with your brakes on.

Your nervous system can't tell real failure from imagined failure.

Do not be one of those who, rather than risk failure, never attempts anything.

The biggest enemies we have to overcome on the road to success are not a lack of ability and a lack of opportunity but fears of failure and rejection and the doubts that they trigger.

Choking is being in a position to win, and then experiencing some critical failure of nerve or spirit. That never happened to me. And I can't help but think it was because I was never afraid to lose.

Failure is never quite so frightening as regret.

The chance of failure is almost always better than the guarantee of never knowing.

I think a lot of people are so scared of failure that they don't put everything they have into whatever they want to do. I think, in turn, they write their own destiny.

Shakespeare's so bloody difficult, and I don't like failure. You can fail on film, but there's nobody actually there in the flesh to watch you failing.

I have a fear of failure.

I wanted to be a poet and/or an artist, but I was very lazy (frightened of failure, I guess) and drank too much.

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you're not prepared to be original.

The most unfortunate thing that happens to a person who fears failure is that he limits himself by becoming afraid to try anything new.

If you find it difficult to accept failure then you simply won't get any innovation because employees will be too frightened

One reason people never attempt new things is their fear of failure.