Quotes About The Fear Of Failure

Here are some motivational quotes to help you to overcome your fear of failure. Never doubt how God can use your talents to make a positive impact on the world and those around you.

Overcoming the fear of failure

Don’t be afraid to pursue your dreams, pursue that business opportunity, get the girl of your dreams, etc.. If fear was a man, he’d never take risks. You maybe afraid to do it, but I would be even more afraid not to do it. Imagine if Martin Luther King never took a stand. Imagine if Thomas Edison was afraid to try again. Imagine if Jeff Bezos was too fearful to start Amazon. Regret should be our greatest fear. Never doubt what you can accomplish in the world. Never doubt your ability to do something. Who cares what other people may think. Do what needs to be done!

“It is hard to fail but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.” Theodore Roosevelt

“Fear kills more dreams than failure ever will.”

“You’ll always miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” Wayne Gretzky

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold. – Helen Keller

“The Enemy is Fear, We Think It Is Hate, But It Is Fear” – Ghandi 

“90% of those who fail are not actually defeated. They simply quit.”

“Don’t fear failure. Fear being in the exact same place next year as you are today.”

“Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.” – Dale Carnegie

“Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.”

“Courage is feeling fear, not getting rid of fear, and taking action in the face of fear.” – Roy T. Bennett

“Don’t let your fear of failure stop you from realizing your dreams.”

“Our greatest fear should not be of failure, but of succeeding at something that doesn’t really matter.” – D.L. Moody

“Are you willing to give up what you have in order to become what you want to be? Most people fear change and, therefore, never grow past the point of mediocrity.”

“It’s not the absence of fear. It’s overcoming it.” – Emma Watson

”It is not failure itself that holds you back: it is the fear of failure that paralyzes you.”

“Fear has its use, but cowardice has none.”

“Everything you want is on the other side of fear.”  – Jack Canfield

“One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.” – Henry Ford

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill

“When the fear of failure cripples you to the point where you don’t make the call. You’ll eventually get to the day where you see you haven’t lived at all.”

“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.” – Michael Jordan

“Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result. It’s vulnerability that breeds with self-doubt and then is escalated, often deliberately, by fear.” – Michelle Obama

“Don’t give in to your fears. If you do, you won’t be able to talk to your heart.” – Paulo Coelho

“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” Thomas Edison

“You can’t be paralyzed by fear of failure or you will never push yourself. You keep pushing because you believe in yourself and in your vision. And you know that it is the right thing to do and success will come.” Arnold Schwarzenegger

“I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.” – Michael Jordan

“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.” – J. K. Rowling

“Courage Is Not The Absence Of Fear, But Rather The Judgement That Something Else Is More Important Than Fear” 

Get up and try again

You may fail but get up and try again. You are able to overcome every situation. If you have the mindset that no matter what I’m going to get and keep trying, then you will start to notice the fear of failure diminishing in your life. Take little steps to accomplish your goals today!

“It’s not how far you fall, but how high you bounce that counts.” – Zig Ziglar

“The one who falls and gets up is stronger than the one who never tried. Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying.” – Roy T. Bennett

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”

“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.” Thomas A. Edison

“Defeat happens only to those who refuse to try again.” Nick Vujicic

“When you fall, leap to your feet and try again.”

“Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.” – C.S. Lewis

“If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative.” – Woody Allen 

“Pick yourself up, dust yourself off, start all over again.”

“Things don’t always work out the way we hope. You just have to pick yourself up and find a new direction to go in.”

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” – Albert Einstein

Just do it!

Just do it! Even if you are afraid, make it happen. Don’t let your fear win. Your dreams or whatever that you are pursuing should be greater than your fears. Ask yourself, are you willing to let your dreams pass you by? I encourage you to actually think about the answer to this question.

“Dare to fail. Dare to be different.”

Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave. Mary Tyler Moore

“Do one thing every day that scares you.” Eleanor Roosevelt

Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try. – Joyce Meyer

“If you want to do something, just do it. No one is going to do it for you.”

“Don’t hesitate or talk about what you want to do. Just do it.”

Learn from your failures

When we fail that can sometimes create fear in our heart. This fear is the reason why some give up and are never willing to try something new or step out of their comfort zone. However, this should not be. Instead, let’s learn and grow from our failures. Let’s use our failures to make us better and wiser. Let’s use them to implement better strategies to pursue our goals. Also, remember that you only truly fail when you stop trying.

“Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success. I’ve met people who don’t want to try for fear of failing.” – J.K. Rowling

“Failure is success if we learn from it.”

“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas A. Edison

“We learn wisdom from failure much more than success. We often discover what we will do, by finding out what we will not do.”  Samuel Smiles

“Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.” John Dewey

“Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something.” Morihei Ueshiba

“Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.” – Napoleon Hill

“Don’t fear failure — not failure, but low aim is the crime. In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail.” ― Bruce Lee

“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.”

“It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.” Bill Gates

 “It’s failure that gives you the proper perspective on success.”