Fear Of Failure Quotes

What does failure do to us? We fall into a vicious downward spiral. Failure is a lot like a shot from a double barrel gun but with a difference. The first shot is like the news which explodes in one’s face. But it is the second, after a short time lag, which causes the most damage. It comprises of pain, humiliation, shame, frustration and anger. The first shot pales in comparison. It is life after the blast that causes the most hurt.

~ Anup Kochhar

it’s being branded a failure that causes the most pain, when ‘failure’ changes from being a verb to becoming a noun.

~ Anup Kochhar

Failure is a social taboo.

~ Anup Kochhar

Can we quantify failure in degrees and say, ‘on a 10 point scale this failure causes this much pain?’ Extremely difficult.

~ Anup Kochhar

The Fear of failure is the greatest fear of man. Even the fear of death is fear of failing to continue life

~ Anup Kochhar

Failure is like flu. It can happen to anyone. Just as it is difficult to find a person who hasn’t had the flu, it is difficult to find someone who has not been stuck by failure at some time.

~ Anup Kochhar

The fear of failure is a liability.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Employment is the exploitation of the employer’s courage, and, the employed’s fear of failure.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Fear of failure prevents you from realising your dreams of success.

~ Habeeb Akande

Fears hide within fears....

~ Jacqueline Ripstein

Fear sees, even when eyes are closed.

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

Much of our Fear, is based in the fear of loss. We fear losing our own lives. We fear death for our family and friends. We fear the loss of our means of survival. In the Western World that's tied up in the way we make money to support ourselves and families. In many parts of the World, it's more basic: food and water. We fear violence, oppression. We fear others.

~ Steve Bivans

It is almost impossible to not triumph to bigger and better things, if you aren't afraid to make mistakes, learn from them, and try again with a better approach.

~ Hafiz

Mindless fear is greater than mindful fear.

~ Idowu Koyenikan

Oscar leaned in, eyes wide. 'He's keeping me,' he whispered to the kitten.Pebble chirped. Oscar's eyes flicked to the books underneath his bed. They called out to him: Misfit. Orphan. Idiot.Oscar coughed and shifted his eyes back to Pebble. 'He thinks I can work the shop. ... He said he knew I could do it.'Wolf: He didn't see you work the shop. He doesn't know. Just wait until he hears.'He wants me to do the best I can.'Wolf: If only he knew how bad that was. He'll know soon.Oscar clenched his hands into fists and squeezed his eyes shut. ... 'I'm not going to disappoint him,' Oscar said. He repeated himself once more, in case the words themselves had any power. 'I'm not.

~ Anne Ursu

Criticism is just someone else’s opinion. Even people who are experts in their fields are sometimes wrong. It is up to you to choose whether to believe some of it, none of it, or all of it. What you think is what counts.

~ Rodolfo Costa

Burn your fear of failure with the fire of desires that open the door of success.

~ Debasish Mridha

Every successful person has had to overcome the fear of failure.

~ Debasish Mridha

Sometimes, the risks we take are so extreme that if things didn’t work in our favor, we could lose EVERYTHING for the sake of our faith.

~ D. Nicole Williams

...he began to fear whether in the presence of far greater events, all his acts would not fade into insignificance, just as a drop of rain disappears into the sea.

~ Henryk Sienkiewicz

Many times, the thought of fear itself is greater than what it is we fear.

~ Idowu Koyenikan

Begin a new life today without any fear! Let's go over it together.

~ Nazim Ambalath

Even greater than my fear that l was crazy, was my lifelong dread that someone would find out.

~ Sarah E. Olson