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Quotes About Fear

Sometimes I get a funny feeling inside me that I shan't be here very long, and I'm not talking in terms of things like success. It frightens me sometimes
~ Marc Bolan
I'm doing everything I can to sabotage my career. It's a little thing called "fear of success".
~ Jon Stewart
Behind all the years of practice and all the hours of glory waits that inexorable terror of living without the game.
~ Bill Bradley
If there had been no fear of failure, neither would there be any joy in success.
~ Paul Tournier
Success makes you less intimidated by things.
~ Nate Silver
Sport is quite a simple thing. It is play, and in play, people of all ages find the chance to engage their most profound emotions-love, fear, excitement, disappointment, anger and joy.
~ Timothy Shriver
If you aren't afraid to fail, then you probably don't care enough about success.
~ Mark McCormack
Most people think small, because most people are afraid of success, afraid of making decisions, afraid of winning. And that gives people like me a great advantage.
~ Donald Trump
I think there's a myth that people feel, that people of success are never fearful, that we're never challenged, that we have some supernova - no, we're like everybody else.
~ Robin Roberts
When you can think of yesterday without regret and tomorrow without fear, then you are on the way to success.
~ Richard Denny
Success is as dangerous as failure. Hope is as hollow as fear.
~ Laozi
The secret to life and the greatest success strategy of all is to love all of it and fear none of it.
~ Jon Gordon
There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
~ Andre Gide
The greatest success goes to the person who is not afraid to fail in front of even the largest audience.
~ David Packard
It's frustrating; terrorism is rare and largely ineffectual, yet we regularly magnify the effects of both their successes and failures by terrorizing ourselves.
~ Bruce Schneier
My greatest fear is not your failure, but your success.
~ Howard G. Hendricks
Who wanted to creep along in comfort when there was one chance in a thousand of flying?
~ Gail Godwin
Fear comes in two packages fear of failure, and sometimes, fear of success.
~ Tom Kite
If risk is the key factor to success and really smart people avoid it, you might not be dumb enough to succeed!
~ Garrison Wynn
Success is seldom achieved by people who contemplate the possibility of failure
~ William Feather
People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now.
~ Denis Waitley
I am far more comfortable with failure than I ever will be with success.
~ Shekhar Kapur
The man who is afraid to risk failure seldom has to face success.
~ John Wooden
Setbacks and fear are inevitable. The thing that distinguishes the ultimate successes from the ultimate failures is this: What do you do with them?
~ Blake Mycoskie