Fear Of Failure Quotes - Page 8

• Looking back, perhaps the single biggest problem was fear. Fear of failure, fear of other people, but mostly fear of myself. It has taken sixty years to discover who I really am. It's never too late to find yourself however lost you may be.

  Lynda Bellingham

  Taken, Years, People

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• Fear of failure is what fuels me, keeps me on edge and sharp. I'm not as good when I'm comfortable.

  Alex Rodriguez

  Wrestling, Fuel, Edges

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• Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker

  John C. Maxwell

  Teacher, Life And Love, Failure

  Twitter post from Mar 7, 2016

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• Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.

  Nelson Rockefeller

  Motivational, Fear, Failure

  Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller (1968). “Unity, Freedom & Peace: A Blueprint for Tomorrow”

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• He that is down needs fear no fall.

  John Bunyan

  Inspirational, Fear, Fall

  'The Pilgrim's Progress' (1684) pt. 2 'Shepherd Boy's Song'

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• There is no impossibility to him who stands prepared to conquer every hazard. The fearful are the failing.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Inspirational, Fear, Failure

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• Studies by Medical Corps psychiatrists of combat fatigue cases... found that fear of killing, rather than fear of being killed, was the most common cause of battle failure, and that fear of failure ran a strong second.

  Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall

  Strong, War, Battle

  Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall (1954). “Men Against Fire: The Problem of Battle Command in Future War”

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• Fear of failure leads to failure.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• I have a tendency to sabotage relationships; I have a tendency to sabotage everything. Fear of success, fear of failure, fear of being afraid. Useless, good-for-nothing thoughts.

  Michael Buble

  Useless, Tendencies, Fear Of Success

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• Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.

  Jack Lemmon

  Fear, Failure

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's scary to watch someone you love go into the center of himself and confront his fears, fear of failure, fear of death, fear of going insane. You have to fail a little, die a little, go insane a little, to come out the other side.

  Eleanor Coppola

  Scary, Insane, Watches

  Eleanor Coppola (1979). “Notes”, Amadeus Press

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• Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who've never done anything because if you haven't been successful, then you don't know how it feels to lose it all.

  Jay-Z

  Successful, People, Done

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 11, 2010.

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• Know that it is good to work. Work with love, and think of liking it when you do it. It is easy and interesting. It is a privilege. There is nothing hard about it but your anxious vanity and fear of failure.

  Brenda Ueland

  Love, Work, Passion

  Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.137, Simon and Schuster

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• If you're not failing, you're not trying hard enough.

  Jillian Michaels

  Motivational, Failure, Trying

  "Fitness Superstar Jillian Michaels On Weight Loss, Healthy Eating & More!". Interview with Jessica Lipps, onmogul.com.

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• The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.

  Louis E. Boone

  Life, Sad, Fear

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• Play with no fear of failure.

  Max Seibald

  Sports, Play, No Fear

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• Great achievers are driven, not so much by the pursuit of success, but by the fear of failure.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Achievement, Driven

  "Lesson #4: Break Through That Wall". www.evancarmichael.com.

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• Failure is a word I don't accept.

  John H. Johnson

  Motivational, Failure, Accepting

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• I think everyone shares a fear of failure - that you're only as good as your most recent collection. That's definitely a fear, but it's a fear that fuels me, that makes me want to work harder, that makes me take on more challenges.

  Alexander Wang

  Hard Work, Thinking, Challenges

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• Fear is at the root of so many of the barriers that women face. Fear of not being liked. Fear of making the wrong choice. Fear of drawing negative attention. Fear of overreaching. Fear of being judged. Fear of failure. And the holy trinity of fear: the fear of being a bad mother/wife/daughter.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Daughter, Mother, Roots

  Sheryl Sandberg (2014). “Lean In for Graduates”, p.33, Knopf

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• The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist.  The need to produce a great work of art makes it hard to produce any art at all. . .  Fear is what blocks an artist.  The fear of not being good enough.  The fear of not finishing.  The fear of failure and of success.  The fear of beginning at all.

  Julia Cameron

  Art, Block, Finishing

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• As a younger player, you always kind of play with that fear of failure.

  Jason Giambi

  Player, Play, Kind

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• If you can't embrace both failure or the possibility of failure, or the tremendous fear of failure, you can't be wildly successful. It's just an axiomatic truth.

  Donny Deutsch

  Successful, Possibility, Embrace

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• You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone.

  Johnny Cash

  Mistake, Failure, Use

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• At first I wasn't sure that I had the talent, but I did know I had a fear of failure, and that fear compelled me to fight off anything that might abet it.

  Gordon Parks

  Fighting, Abet, Might

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