Saturday, September 25, 2010

Fear of failure


Go back a little to leap further.
-John Clarke
 

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

I failed my way to success.
-Thomas Edison

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


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


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

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


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


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

It is foolish to fear what you cannot avoid.
Stultum est timere quod vitare non potes.
-Publius Syrus


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


It is foolish to fear what you cannot avoid.
Stultum est timere quod vitare non potes.
-Publius Syrus

He that is down needs fear no fall.
-John Bunyan


Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
-George Herman "Babe" Ruth


One who fears failure limits his activities.
Failure is only the opportunity to more
intelligently begin again.
-Henry Ford 

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

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them.
-Washington Irving

Our greatest glory consist not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
-Oliver Goldsmith

Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.
-Nelson A. Rockefeller



What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
-Vincent van Gogh


The greatest men sometimes overshoot themselves, but then their very mistakes are so many lessons of instruction.
-Tom Browne 

Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.
-James A. Froude

It is the want of diligence, rather than the want of means, that causes most failures.
-Alfred Mercier

A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed--I well know.
For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.
-Georges Clemenceau

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
-Napoleon Bonaparte

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

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

Disappointments are to the soul what thunderstorms are to the air.
Johann C. F. von Schiller
                                                  

                                       Failure teaches success.
                                           Japanese Saying

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