Fear Of Success Quotes:

Procrastination is the fear of success.

- Denis Waitley

source: Denis Waitley (1985). “The Winners Edge”, Berkley

topic: Procrastination, Fear Of Success

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.

- Marianne Williamson

source: A Return to Love ch. 7 (1992). Frequently misattributed to Nelson Mandela.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Encouraging, Empowering Women, Inaugural Speech

Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the "someday I'll" philosophy.

- Denis Waitley

topic: Philosophy, Moving, Procrastination, Procrastinating, Moving Ahead

Fear of success is far more dangerous than fear of failure, because the subconscious mind works to prevent that which it fears. People may fear success because of low self-esteem and feeling of not deserving it; because it will increase what others expect of them. Fear of success shows up as anxiety, indecision, avoidance, procrastination or acceptance of mediocrity.

- Joe Tye

source: Joe Tye (2000). “Personal Best: 1001 Great Ideas for Achieving Success in Your Career”, Mjf Books

topic: Self Esteem, Procrastination, Acceptance, Deserving It, Fear Of Success

Everything you want is on the other side of fear.

- Jack Canfield

source: Twitter post from Apr 09, 2013

topic: Inspirational, Life, Fear, Fearlessness, Facing Fear

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

- Thomas A. Edison

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, About Success, Innovation Inspiration

We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world.

- Marianne Williamson

topic: Confidence, Children, Fear, Inaugural Speech, Discovering Yourself

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

- Winston Churchill

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Pushing On, Source Of Life

Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.

- Sumner Redstone

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Success, Fear Of Success, Frustration In Life

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

topic: Inspirational, Change, Positive, About Success, Failure In Life

When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

- Audre Lorde

source: "The Cancer Journals". Book by Audre Lorde, 1980.

topic: Inspirational, Encouragement, Powerful, Powerful Women, Power And Control

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

- Jim Rohn

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Business, Pushing On, Taking Risks

The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.

- Sven-Goran Eriksson

topic: Business, Fear Of Failure, Barriers, Great Confidence, Fear Of Failing

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

- Tom Kite

topic: Golf, Two, Sometimes, Fear Of Success

Fear of success is one of the new fears I've heard about lately. And I think its definitely a sign that we're running out of fears. A person suffering from fear of success is scraping the bottom of the fear barrel.

- Jerry Seinfeld

topic: Running, Thinking, Suffering, Fear Of Success, Scraping

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

- Wayne Gretzky

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Fitness, Thought Of The Day, Self Determination

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

- Michael Jordan

source: "Nike Culture : The Sign of the Swoosh". Book by Robert Goldman, Stephen Papson (p. 49), 1998.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Favorite Sports, Best Success

I learned to put my trust in God and to see Him as my strength. Long ago I set my mind to be a free person and not to give in to fear. I always felt that it was my right to defend myself if I could. I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.

- Rosa Parks

topic: Long Ago, Years, Knowing, Empowering Women, I Am Strong

Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.

- Denis Waitley

topic: Risk, Doing Nothing, Cost, Risking Your Life, Learning Lessons

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

- T. S. Eliot

source: T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.1250, Faber & Faber

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Fear None, Courage To Change

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.

- George Burns

topic: Inspirational, Cute, Positive, Inspirational Success Failure, Spiritual Success

I'm doing everything I can to sabotage my career. It's a little thing called "fear of success".

- Jon Stewart

topic: Success, Jobs, Fear, Fear Of Success

The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.

- Louis E. Boone

topic: Live Life, Three, Might, Live Life To Its Fullest, Live To The Fullest

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Inspirational, Life, Fear, Secret Life, Worst Fear

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.

- Marianne Williamson

topic: Inspiring, Confidence, Children, Empowering Women, Inaugural Speech

Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.

- Dan Millman

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Fear, Peaceful Warrior, Strive For Success

Fear of Failure becomes Fear of Success for those who Never Try Anything New.

- Wayne Dyer

source: Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Everyday Wisdom for Success (Easyread Large Edition)”, p.96, ReadHowYouWant.com

topic: Motivational, Trying, Fear Of Failure, Fear Of Success

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

- Napoleon Hill

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Success, Inspirational Adversity, Inspirational Success Failure

I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try.

- Nikki Giovanni

topic: Inspirational, Life, Inspiring, Imagine That, Fear Of Success

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

- Coco Chanel

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Business Life, Failure In Life

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

- Mark Twain

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Inspirational Confidence, Inspirational Courage

Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.

- Francis Chan

source: Francis Chan (2013). “Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God”, p.92, David C Cook

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Fear, Jesus Inspirational, Succeeding In Life

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

- James Russell Lowell

topic: Inspirational, Educational, Failure, Martial Artist, Martial Arts Inspirational

Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.

- Marianne Williamson

topic: Love, Inspirational, Fear, Empowering Women, Learn To Love Yourself

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

- Marie Curie

topic: Life, Encouraging, Being Strong, Live Life To Its Fullest, Marie

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

- Bill Cosby

source: Twitter post from Nov 18, 2009

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Success, Inspirational Change, Improving Yourself

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

- Napoleon Hill

topic: Change, Fear Of Success, Temporary Defeat

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

- Marianne Williamson

topic: Powerful, Deepest Fear, Our Deepest Fear, Empowering Women, Inaugural Speech

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

- Sarah Josepha Hale

topic: Fear, Failure, Hazards, Success Failure, Fear Of Failing

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

- Newell Dwight Hillis

source: Newell Dwight Hillis (1911). “The Contagion of Character: Studies in Culture and Success”

topic: Fear, Elements, Events, Inspirational Success Failure, Failure Inspirational

Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

- Orison Swett Marden

topic: Motivational, Success, Meaningful, Odds Against You, Against All Odds

There is nothing to fear but fear itself. And spiders. ~Bumper sticker~

- Darynda Jones

topic: Spiders, Irrational Fear, No Fear, Fear Of Success, Off The Wall

When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'

- Eleanor Roosevelt

topic: Looks, Able, Next, Empowering Women, Inspirational Adversity

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

- Robert Kennedy

source: Robert F. Kennedy (1967). “To seek a newer world”, Doubleday Books

topic: Inspirational, Success, Failure, Journey To Success, Inspirational Achievement

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

topic: Useless, Fear Of Failure, Tendencies, Fear Of Success