Fear Of Failure Quotes - Page 12

• It is foolish to fear what you cannot avoid.

  Publilius Syrus

  Inspirational, Fear, Failure

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• School is indeed a training for later life not because it teaches the 3 Rs (more or less), but because it instills the essential cultural nightmare fear of failure, envy of success, and absurdity.

  Jules Henry

  Education, School, Envy

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• Perfectionism is not as much the desire for excellence, as it is the fear of failure couched in procrastination .

  Dan Miller

  Procrastination, Excellence, Desire

  Dan Miller (2015). “48 Days to the Work You Love: Preparing for the New Normal”, p.86, B&H Publishing Group

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• We should never shy away from the challenges that face us out of fear of failure or an unwillingness to battle the odds. We should confront our problems head on and make no excuses.

  Kyle Maynard

  Odds, Challenges, Battle

  Kyle Maynard (2012). “No Excuses: The True Story of a Congenital Amputee Who Became a Champion in Wrestling And in Life”, p.208, Regnery Publishing

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• I have a fear of failure.

  Joe Montana

  Fear

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• American naturalist John Burroughs put it, “A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

  Jeff Olson

  Running, Failure, Responsibility

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• Amateurs built the Ark; Professionals built the Titanic.

  Elizabeth May

  Fear, Trying Something New, Ark

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• The desire to succeed has a lot less compulsion than the fear of failure.

  Gerald Seymour

  Desire, Succeed, Compulsion

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• Some of the best inventive moments are born out of 'wrong thinking'. Most people start with the right way so they all follow the same path. The wrong way will lead to mistakes from which you can learn and create new discoveries-the kind of original ideas that come to life when we dare to be different, keep an open mind, and have no fear of failure.

  James Dyson

  Mistake, Thinking, Ideas

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• Attitude, humor and action (persistence) will whip fears and rejection. Fear of failure doesn't exist, if you believe it doesn't.

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  Attitude, Believe, Persistence

  Jeffrey Gitomer (2014). “The Sales Bible, New Edition: The Ultimate Sales Resource”, p.135, John Wiley & Sons

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• A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

  John Burroughs

  Inspirational, Positive, Running

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• Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.

  John Dewey

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Richard Rorty (2008). “The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1933”, p.206, SIU Press

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• I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Break Up, Breakup

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Dec 20, 2016

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• Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Inspirational, Powerful, Failure

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• Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  William Shakespeare (1838). “The Pictorial edition of the works of Shakspere, ed. by C. Knight. [8 vols., including a vol. entitled William Shakspere, by C. Knight].”, p.281

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• When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Appropriate Technology: A Focus for the Nineties". Book by Robert William Stevens, 1991.

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• He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.

  Samuel Smiles

  Inspirational, Motivational, Smile

  1859 Self-Help, ch.11.

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• I'm afraid of everything. Fear of being alone, fear of being hurt, fear of being made a fool of, fear of failure... Still, I think all my fears bleed from one big one.

  Tiffanie DeBartolo

  Hurt, Thinking, Fool

  Tiffanie DeBartolo (2002). “God Shaped Hole: A Novel”, p.57, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Failure, Men, Doubt

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• The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Fear, Halloween, Strong Emotions

  H.P. Lovecraft, Digital Papyrus (2014). “H.P. Lovecraft: The Ultimate Collection (160 Works Including Early Writings, Fiction, Collaborations, Poetry, Essays & Bonus Audiobook Links)”, eBookIt.com

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• 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.

  Anthony de Mello

  Being Yourself, Fear, Failure

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• Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Motivational, Failure

  "Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living". Book edited by John Little, p. 121, 2000.

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  The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.

  Julia Child

  Attitude, Block, Real

  FaceBook post by Julia Child from May 15, 2012

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• We've got to get rid of the fear of failure in this country. In America, people start things, fail and shake themselves down and start things again. The animal spirit of capitalism is stronger there.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Country, Animal, America

  "Thank God for Rupert Murdoch" by Kelvin MacKenzie, www.theguardian.com. June 30, 2011.

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• Fear of failure is a far worse condition than failure itself, because it kills off possibilities.

  Michael Eisner

  Possibility, Conditions

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