Quotes on Overcoming Fear of Failure

Not failure, but low aim, is crime. James Russell Lowell

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

Go back a little to leap further. John Clarke

There is no failure except in no longer trying. Elbert Hubbard

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

Half of the failures in life come from pulling one's horse when he is leaping. Thomas Hood

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

I was never afraid of failure, for I would sooner fail than not be among the best. John Keats

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt. William Shakespeare

Take risks: if you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wise. Anonymous

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

Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities. Napoleon Hill

By seeking and blundering we learn. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Mistakes are the portals of discovery. James Joyce

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street. Zig Ziglar

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves. André Gide

Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success. Napoleon Hill

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles overcome while trying to succeed. Booker T. Washington

Half of the failures in life come from pulling one's horse when he is leaping. Thomas Hood

Failure is blindness to the strategic element in events; success is readiness for instant action when the opportune moment arrives. Newell D. Hillis

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. Henry Ford

Failure is success if we learn from it. Malcolm S. Forbes

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

They fail, and they alone, who have not striven. Thomas Bailey Aldrich

The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure. Sven Goran Eriksson

If you are not big enough to lose, you are not big enough to win.Walter Reuther

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. Marie Curie