Fear Quotes

They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.

~ James Allen

He who refuses to stoop, who cannot be bribed by the promise of success or the fear of failure - who walks the highway of the right, and in disaster stands erect, is the only victor.

~ Robert Green Ingersoll

Failure isn't an option. I've erased the word 'fear' from my vocabulary, and I think when you erase fear, you can't fail.

~ Alicia Keys

Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego's fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.

~ Eckhart Tolle

I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large.

~ Garry Shandling

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

In tennis, it is not the opponent you fear, it is the failure itself, knowing how near you were but just out of reach.

~ Andy Murray

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

~ Bill Cosby

I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure, you learned, as I did in art school, to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow off your head.

~ Malcolm Mclaren

We all have anxiety about things. We all have little insecurities, but eventually you have to face your fears if you want to be successful, and everybody has some fear of failure.

~ Nick Saban

I've probably earned the right to screw up a few times. I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.

~ Emma Watson

You get so afraid of failure and so afraid of losing and so afraid of not being the best that it's not a natural drive - it's born out of fear of failure. Which helps in Hollywood.

~ Gabrielle Union

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

~ George Eliot

Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

~ Frederick W. Smith

I don't look at football as a violent, barbaric sport. It's a very spiritual sport, especially for someone facing the challenges during a game: the fear of failure, the fear of getting too big an ego, of making a mistake and everybody criticizing you.

~ Troy Polamalu

Fear comes in two packages fear of failure, and sometimes, fear of success.

~ Tom Kite

I went to a motivational training course once, a course of self-discovery, and I found out after a week that my fear - it was not a fear of not being accepted - was a very violent fear of failure.

~ Emanuel Steward

I guess I'm motivated by the fear of failure to some degree and knowing what can happen when you don't do things the way you need to do them to have success.

~ Nick Saban

My work ethic came from my parents and my fear of failure. I came from a small, predominantly black school and I didn't want to let them down.

~ Jerry Rice

I feel that marriage can lead to the ultimate rejection and failure and divorce and things we all fear.

~ Mike Birbiglia

Boys with a 'failure to launch' are invisible to most girls. With poor social skills, the boys feel anger at their fear of being rejected and self-loathing at their inability to compete.

~ Warren Farrell

Every individual suffers from the fear of failure, but you can change your destiny only when you overcome it.

~ Anupam Kher

I have a lack of fear, whereas in the past the fear of failure was a powerful motivator. Anyway, I have great expectations for the future, but I just don't know if I'm the monarch of all I survey.

~ Sylvester Stallone

I think my whole life, because of where I came from, I had a fear of failure.

~ Howard Schultz

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

~ George Eliot

My biggest fear is doing the same things 10 years from now. That would be a failure. It's something you have to constantly reassess, and asking yourself what you are going to do next makes it a good, long full journey.

~ George Clooney

Every time I act on a fear, I feel disappointed in myself. I have a lot of fear. If I can quit all fear in my life and all guilt, then I tend to be much, much more living up to my standards. I've never seen a person fail if they didn't fear failure.

~ Sebastian Thrun

In my view, the first requirement for success for an entrepreneur is to dream big. The second aspect that prevents entrepreneurs from succeeding is fear of failure.

~ Naveen Jain

Some parents believe that competition helps prepare children to succeed. Others fear that their children will not be able to handle failure.

~ Bill Dedman

There are a whole host of psychological phenomenon humans have developed to protect ourselves from the sting of failure, from holding ourselves less accountable for our failures than we do other people, to letting our fear paralyze us and keep us from even trying.

~ Fabrizio Moreira

I didn't fear failure. I expected failure.

~ Amy Tan

I can plunk out enough chords to write a song, but I'm completely afraid to play guitar in front of other people. It's a fear of failure, I guess.

~ Mandy Moore

I lived with this tremendous fear of failure because my father was a playwright and a director, and I think he did a couple of things as a child as an actor as well, and he... he failed, basically.

~ Ben Affleck

I don't fear pain or failure anymore because I'm too grateful for the pains and failures of my past - they have made me who I am, and most of the good things in my life are a direct result of them in some way.

~ Scott Derrickson

I guess it's the fear of failure and not knowing how the films are going to do that just drives us to work really hard to make them the best they can possibly be.

~ Lee Unkrich

The power of fear of failure, with will to win, is an incredible force. I don't think we should be worried about having a fear of failure; I think it's quite natural. If you surveyed any top businessman or any top athlete, I bet if they were truthful, they would all say they've got a fear of losing and a fear of failure.

~ John Caudwell

People are afraid of failure - they don't like to work so hard and have people keep saying, 'No.' I think that's what people fear most.

~ Russell Simmons

Failure worries me; nobody wants to fail. There is a fear that one day, films will not come my way, or if someone doesn't watch your film, that is a worrying point. It is unpredictable in the industry.

~ Alia Bhatt

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.

~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I don't know which is stronger: the thrill of winning or the fear of failure. I don't know which one affects me most. I don't know where the middle is.

~ Tony Mccoy