21 Quotes About Overcoming Your Fear of Failure

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Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill

Failure isn't fatal, but failure to change might be.
John Wooden

Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
Coco Chanel

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Robert F. Kennedy

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.
Ken Robinson

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
Denis Waitley

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

There is no failure except in no longer trying.
Chris Bradford

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas A. Edison

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.
Paulo Coelho

Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.
Lance Armstrong

Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up.
Chinese proverb

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, only this time more wisely.
Henry Ford

Failure is not the opposite of success; it's a stepping stone to success.
Arianna Huffington

Don't let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.
Babe Ruth

Believe you can and you're halfway there.
Theodore Roosevelt

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Truman Capote

The only failure is not to try.
George Clooney

Failure is a bruise, not a tattoo.
Jon Sinclair

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Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead-end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
Denis Waitley

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Elbert Hubbard

The biggest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that is changing quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.
Mark Zuckerberg

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas Edison

Don't worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try.
Jack Canfield

Don't be afraid of failure. This is the way to succeed.
LeBron James

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Nelson Mandela

Success is not about avoiding failure; it's about learning from failure and getting back up.
Richard Branson

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

Fear regret more than failure.
Taryn Rose

Believe in yourself, take on your challenges, dig deep within yourself to conquer fears. Never let anyone bring you down. You got this.
Chantal Sutherland