Quotes About Fear

I must have no fear of failure. It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the Master Work.

Faith in yourself and faith in God are the key to mastery of fear.

I don't do that kind of negativity. If you put your energy into thinking about how much the fall would hurt, you're already halfway down.

One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.

I'm sure not afraid of success and I've learned not to be afraid of failure. The only thing I'm afraid of now is of being someone I don't like much.

There is a kind of success that is indistinguishable from panic.

Courage faces fear and thereby masters it

Do not let fear of failure overwhelms joy success

The first quality of courage is the willingness to launch with no guarantees. The second quality of courage is the ability to endure when there is no success in sight.

The most drastic and usually the most effective remedy for fear is direct action.

Failure isn't a problem. It's the fear of failure that's the limiting factor. You can't lose your nerve for the big failure, because it's the exact same nerve you need for the big success.

The only thing that can stop you is the doubt that you carry in your mind.

Doubt, fear and regret are the three villains of success. If you close the door on the first two, you will never have to worry about meeting the third.

I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success.

Understanding does not come through analysis;understanding comes only when the mind is very quite,unburdened,no longer seeking success and therefore being thwarted,afraid of faluire.

If there were a generic one-word expression for 'one whose fear of the uncertainties of success moves him to surrender at the very moment of victory', it would be 'Republican'.

The four natural principles for success are: A clear goal, a definite plan, confidence, no fear of failure.

The antidote for fear of failure is not success but small doses of failure.

Adventurers tend to prance about the ladder of success, fearing less the sensation of a great fall than the humility of hanging idle.

I don't really recognise success. I don't see myself as on an upwardly mobile trajectory. I see myself as on the edge of a cliff about to fall off.

Fear of failure is at least as common as the desire for success. In fact, if harnessed properly, it can be the energy that drives the wheel.

People refuse to take chances in business, because they fear the criticism which may follow if they fail. The fear of criticism, in such cases is stronger than the DESIRE for success.

Failure is what we're all running from, we're always running toward success with failure at our back.

It's undeserved success that people are so terribly afraid of losing; they know they haven't any way, themselves, of ever getting it back again.