Mediocrity is my biggest fear. I'm not afraid of total failure because I don't think that will happen. I'm not afraid of success because that beats the hell out of failure. It's being in the middle that scares me. — Robert Downey, Jr.
Don't be afraid of failure. This is the way to succeed. — LeBron James
Be not afraid of going slowly, Be afraid of standing still.
Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest. — Chanakya
Don't be afraid of failure, be afraid of not trying in the first place. — Marie Forleo
People are afraid to think, or they don't know how. They fail to realize that, while emotions can't be suppressed, the mind can be strengthened. All over the world people are seeking peace of mind, but there can be no peace of mind without strength of mind. — Eric Gutkind
Failure are part of life. If you don't fail, you don't learn. If you don't learn you'll never change.
Don't be afraid of failure. That's not an easy lesson for teenagers - especially teenage girls - to learn. Our society sends us a lot of messages that imply we're supposed to be ashamed when we fall short. But I think we should be throwing each other failure parties! — Reshma Saujani
Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed. — Lily Tomlin
I don't think there's anything to be afraid of. Failure brings great rewards - in the life of an artist. — Quentin Tarantino
Success is a poor teacher. We learn the most about ourselves when we fail, so don't be afraid of failing. Failing is part of the process of success. You cannot have success without failure. — Robert Kiyosaki
I'm Not Afraid Of Failure Quotes
I'm not afraid of failure; I'm afraid of succeeding at things that don't matter. — William Carey
I'm not the guy who's afraid of failure. I like to take risks, take the big shot and all that. — Stephen Curry
I'm sure not afraid of success and I've learned not to be afraid of failure. The only thing I'm afraid of now is of being someone I don't like much. — Anna Quindlen
It's not the future that you're afraid of. It's repeating the past that makes you anxious.
I'm not afraid of total failure. In the end, we're all just food for worms, so what are we so worried about? — Marisha Pessl
I'm more afraid of success than failure. Success makes us so sure of ourselves that we do not analyze the factors that lead us to our success. Instead, in failure there's an error that lurks that makes us reflect and in that process there is learning and that makes us better — Jorge Valdano
Never Be Afraid Of Failure Quotes
Never be afraid of failure or disappointment, because those are just temporary experiences on the path to your dreams coming true — Doreen Virtue
What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't be afraid of failure. Never fear it because there's always a lesson if you're open to it. There's always a lesson at the end of it. Always. — Joe Quesada
Stop being afraid of what could go wrong, and start being excited of what could go right.
What a shame to be so afraid of failure that you stop living. My wife has a great one-liner about failure: "Never consider yourself a failure-you can always serve as a bad example." She is right. Failure can be a better teacher than success. — Bernie Siegel
Choking is being in a position to win, and then experiencing some critical failure of nerve or spirit. That never happened to me. And I can't help but think it was because I was never afraid to lose. — Pete Sampras
Do Not Fear Failure Quotes
I do not have any fears, no fear of dying, of failure, of anything; that means I am very dangerous for my opponents. — Imran Khan
Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out. — Robert Galvin
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance.
Remember, the greatest failure is to not try.
Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it. — Debbi Fields
Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
Concern yourself not with what you tried
and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do. — Pope John XXII
There is no such thing as failure. There are only results. — Tony Robbins
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by doing the thing which you think you cannot do. — Eleanor Roosevelt
Don't be afraid of being outnumbered. Eagles fly alone. Pigeons flock together.
Failure feelings - fear, anxiety, lack of self-confidence - do not spring from some heavenly oracle. They are not written in the stars. They are not holy gospel. Nor are they intimations of a set and decided fate which means that failure is decreed and decided. They originate from your own mind. — Maxwell Maltz
I do not fear failure. I only fear the slowing up of the engine inside of me which is pounding, saying, Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you? — George S. Patton
Do not let fear of failure overwhelms joy success — Robert Kiyosaki
Do not call procrastination laziness. Call it fear. — Julia Cameron
What Is Failure Quotes
I believe the single most significant decision I can make on a day-to-day basis is my choice of attitude. It is more important than my past, my education, my bankroll, my successes or failures, fame or pain, what other people think of me or say about me, my circumstances, or my position. — Charles R. Swindoll
The answers to these questions will determine your success or failure. 1) Can people trust me to do what's right? 2) Am I committed to doing my best? 3) Do I care about other people and show it? If the answers to these questions are yes, there is no way you can fail. — Lou Holtz
Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it. — Mia Hamm
Always do what you are afraid to do.
Failure is an option. It's what you do with the failure that makes you who you are. Our failures mold us. I have failed at several things in my life. What sets some of us apart, is that when we fail, we can't sleep at night. It haunts us until we have our time at redemption. — David Goggins
What is courage? Courage is the willingness to risk failure...There is only one danger I find in life, and that, indeed, is a real one. You may take too many precautions. — Alfred Adler
Failure is part of success, an integral part. Everybody gets knocked down. Knowing it will happen and what you must do when it does is the first step back. — Bill Walsh
Failure is a great teacher, and, if you are open to it, every mistake has a lesson to offer.
Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day — Will Durant
To try and fail is at least to learn; to fail to try is to suffer the inestimable loss of what might have been. — Chester Barnard
What’s most important? Is it talent, passion, intensity, or purpose? I would say purpose, because it’s the foundation of consistency. And consistency — as unsexy as it may be — differentiates success from failure and ultimately good from great. — Rich Roll
Remind thyself, in the darkest moments, that every failure is only a step toward success, every detection of what is false directs you toward what is true, every trial exhausts some tempting form of error, and every adversity will only hide, for a time, your path to peace and fulfillment. — Og Mandino
Afraid To Fail Quotes
Maybe you will be afraid and maybe you will fail, but the courage to take risks in any part of your life is, I feel, a very worthwhile way to live. — Emile Hirsch
I'm not afraid to fail...I'm scared to death of dying and having the Lord say to me, 'Angelica, this is what you might have done had you trusted more. — Mother Angelica
If you're afraid to fail, you'll never succeed. — Dan Gable
Avoiding failure is to avoid progress.
Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness. — Oprah Winfrey
Don't be afraid to fail. Be afraid not to try. — Michael Jordan
Never be afraid to fail. Failure is only a stepping stone to improvement. Never be overconfident because that will block your improvement. — Tatchakorn Yeerum
You can not achieve success without the risk of failure. If you are not afraid to fail, than you have a chance, but you are never going to get there unless you risk it. — Paul Heyman
Don't be afraid to fail. Experience is just mistakes you don't make anymore. — Joe Garagiola
My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail. — Sara Blakely
Fear Of Failure Quotes
There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure. — Paulo Coelho
In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. — Bill Cosby
Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter. — Francis Chan
Criticism is something we can avoid easily
by saying nothing, doing nothing,
and being nothing. — Aristotle
Don't let failure or disappointment cut you off from God or make you think that the future is hopeless. When God closes one door, He often opens another door - if we seek it. — Billy Graham
You will be wounded many times in your life. You'll make mistakes. Some people will call them failures but I have learned that failure is really God's way of saying, "Excuse me, you're moving in the wrong direction." It's just an experience, just an experience. — Oprah Winfrey
Do your thing. Do it unapologetically. Don't be discouraged by criticism. You probably already know what they're going to say. Pay no mind to the fear of failure. It's far more valuable than success. Take ownership, take chances, and have fun. And no matter what, don't ever stop doing your thing. — Asher Roth
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
The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; but, it is fear. — Mahatma Gandhi
Fear Of Failing Quotes
I am not dealing with footballers, I am dealing with people. They have fears and worry about failing and making fools of themselves in front of 80,000 people. I have to make them see that without each other they are nothing. — Pep Guardiola
Woe to the people that fails to honor its heroes! It will cease producing them, cease knowing them. Heroes spring from the essence of their people. A people without heroes is a people without leaders, for only a heroic leader is a true leader able to withstand the challenge of difficult times. — Rudolf Hess
Get out of the boat. Face your fears. Fail. Learn. Adjust. Try again. And watch God do more than you can imagine. — Craig Groeschel
When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important. — Ellen DeGeneres
I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker. — Stanley Kubrick
He may be right about the importance of not fearing failure, but then again, you don’t hear speeches or read autobiographies by people who were unafraid of failure and then did indeed simply fail. — Oliver Burkeman
And they act in the face of risk, because their fear of not succeeding exceeds their fear of failing. — Adam Grant
Be strong and of good courage; fear not or be dismayed; for the Lord, even my God, will be with thee. He will not fail thee, till thou hast finished all the work for the service of the house of the Lord. — David
We don’t avoid learning new skills because we’re lazy. We avoid learning new skills because we’re afraid of sucking and we’re afraid of failing. — Alex Hormozi
Men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed. — Lloyd Jones
I'm not afraid of failure; I'm afraid of succeeding at things that don't matter. — William Carey
Mediocrity is my biggest fear. I'm not afraid of total failure because I don't think that will happen. I'm not afraid of success because that beats the hell out of failure. It's being in the middle that scares me. — Robert Downey, Jr.
I'm not the guy who's afraid of failure. I like to take risks, take the big shot and all that. — Stephen Curry
Don't be afraid of failure. This is the way to succeed. — LeBron James
Instead of being afraid of the challenge and failure, be afraid of avoiding the challenge and doing nothing — Soichiro Honda
The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed. — Gordon Parks
You can not achieve success without the risk of failure. If you are not afraid to fail, than you have a chance, but you are never going to get there unless you risk it. — Paul Heyman
What keeps us alive and propels us forward are our actions, not our fears. Fear, if anything, paralyzes us. It blurs our judgment and blocks us from making the best possible decisions. Fear of failure doesn’t drive our best performance. All it does is add anxiety. What truly drives us to success is our hard work. And you don’t need to be afraid to work hard. — Mo Gawdat
Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest. — Chanakya
Failure: Is it a limitation? Bad timing? It's a lot of things. It's something you can't be afraid of, because you'll stop growing. The next step beyond failure could be your biggest success in life. — Debbie Allen
The key to success is having the courage to take risks and not be afraid of failure. — Joe Rogan
Don't be afraid of failure, be afraid of not trying in the first place. — Marie Forleo
Never be afraid of failure or disappointment, because those are just temporary experiences on the path to your dreams coming true — Doreen Virtue
I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure. — Anne Baxter
People are afraid to think, or they don't know how. They fail to realize that, while emotions can't be suppressed, the mind can be strengthened. All over the world people are seeking peace of mind, but there can be no peace of mind without strength of mind. — Eric Gutkind
You can’t be afraid of failure, because it’s essential for growth and improvement. — Joe Rogan
Don't be afraid of failure. That's not an easy lesson for teenagers - especially teenage girls - to learn. Our society sends us a lot of messages that imply we're supposed to be ashamed when we fall short. But I think we should be throwing each other failure parties! — Reshma Saujani
Your wealth is hiding under the very thing you are afraid to do. It's time to face your fears and take action. Expect Miracles. — Joe Vitale
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little coarse and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice? Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I talk about going to his [George W. Bush's] Inauguration and crying when he took the oath, 'cause I was so afraid he was going to "wreck the economy and muck up the drinking water"... the failure of my pessimistic imagination at that moment boggles my mind now. — Sarah Vowell
If you're so afraid of failure, you will never succeed. You have to take chances. — Mario Andretti
Have pity on those who are fearful of taking up a pen, or a paintbrush, or an instrument, or a tool because they are afraid that someone has already done so better than they could. — Paulo Coelho
Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success. — Robert Kiyosaki
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
If you are afraid of failure, you don't deserve success. — Nastia Liukin
I was never afraid of failure. I realized that I was responsible for my own success and that every day offers a new beginning and I was confident in my ability to improve. — Jeffrey R. Immelt
But always think this: do not be afraid of failure. Do not be afraid of falling. In the art of walking, what is important is not avoiding the fall but not remaining fallen. — Pope Francis
The greatest secret of winners is that failure inspires winning; thus, they are not afraid of losing. — Robert Kiyosaki
Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed. — Lily Tomlin
What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
I don't think there's anything to be afraid of. Failure brings great rewards - in the life of an artist. — Quentin Tarantino
When I thought about why I was sometimes reluctant to push myself, I realized that it was because I was afraid of failure - but in order to have more success, I needed to be willing to accept more failure. — Gretchen Rubin
People aren't afraid of failure, they just don't know how to succeed. We are each responsible for our own success (or failure). Winning at what you do is no exception. To ensure a win, you must take a proactive approach. Prevention of failure is an important part of that process. — Jeffrey Gitomer
Failure is part of discovering the problem you need to be working on. If, as an entrepreneur, you are afraid to fail or to admit the failure of your efforts, then you completely lose any chance at being able to adapt and succeed at finding the problem that needs solving. — Caterina Fake
Fear of failure is the fuel of achievement. If you weren't afraid to fail, you probably wouldn't be highly motivated to work at the level that most of us have to work at to do well. — Ruth Simmons
We're just afraid, period. Our fear is free-floating. We're afraid this isn't the right relationship or we're afraid it is. We're afraid they won't like us or we're afraid they will. We're afraid of failure or we're afraid of success. We're afraid of dying young or we're afraid of growing old. We're more afraid of life than we are of death. — Marianne Williamson
When we begin to take our failures non-seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. — Katherine Mansfield
Just as, in travel, one may miss seeing the sunset because one cannot find the ticket-office or is afraid of missing the train, so in even the closest human relationships a vast amount of time and of affection is drained away in minor misunderstandings, missed opportunities, and failures in consideration or understanding. — Iris Origo
This nation was built by men who took risks-pioneers who were not afraid of the wilderness, businessmen who were not afraid of failure, scientists who were not afraid of the truth, thinkers who were not afraid of progress, dreamers who were not afraid of action. — Brooks Atkinson
You can't be afraid of failure and you can't be afraid of success, because either one gets in the way of your work. — Dave Van Ronk
Failures are life's way of nudging you and letting you know you are off course. Trying new things and not being afraid to fail along the way are more important than what you learn in school. — Sara Blakely
Success is a poor teacher. We learn the most about ourselves when we fail, so don't be afraid of failing. Failing is part of the process of success. You cannot have success without failure. — Robert Kiyosaki
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
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