100+ Failure Fear Quotes to Overcome Your Fears and Take Action

“Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.” – Nelson Mandela

“It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“To dare greatly is to risk being misunderstood.” – Brené Brown

“The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all.” – Megan McArdle

“A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” – John A. Shedd

“Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” – John D. Rockefeller

“Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.” – Coco Chanel

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

“Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.” – Og Mandino

“He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.” – Muhammad Ali

“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky

“Fortune favors the bold.” – Virgil

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

“Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent advantage.” – Napoleon Hill

“I've learned that mistakes can often be as good teachers as success.” – Jack Canfield

“Failure is the tuition you pay for success.” – Walter Brunell

“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.” – Henry Ford

“Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.” – C.S. Lewis

“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill

“Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.” – Albert Einstein

“Failure is not the opposite of success; it’s part of success.” – Arianna Huffington

“We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success.” – Samuel Smiles

“Mistakes are proof that you are trying.” – Jennifer Lim

“There is no education like adversity.” – Benjamin Disraeli

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

“It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.” – Vince Lombardi

“Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.” – Julie Andrews

“When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Persistence guarantees that results are inevitable.” – Paramahansa Yogananda

“Fall seven times, stand up eight.” – Japanese Proverb

“Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.” – Samuel Johnson

“Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston S. Churchill

“The difference between successful people and others is how long they spend feeling discouraged.” – E.M. Gray

“Press on. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.” – Calvin Coolidge

“Failure is only delayed success when you refuse to quit.” – Author Unknown

“Keep going. Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life.” – Roy T. Bennett

“Believe you can and you're halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt

“You have power over your mind—not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” – Marcus Aurelius

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.” – Peter T. McIntyre

“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.” – Maya Angelou

“Even a mistake teaches a man something—if he has the sense to learn.” – James Russell Lowell

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“Your value doesn’t decrease based on someone’s inability to see your worth.” – Unknown

“Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.” – Will Rogers

“You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.” – Zig Ziglar

“If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.” – Vincent Van Gogh

“The biggest risk is not taking any risk.” – Mark Zuckerberg

“Do something today that your future self will thank you for.” – Unknown

“If you don’t risk anything, you risk everything.” – Erica Jong

“All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.” – Michael John Bobak

“Take risks: if you win, you’ll be happy; if you lose, you’ll be wise.” – Unknown

“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Neale Donald Walsch

“The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.” – Arthur C. Clarke

“A year from now, you may wish you had started today.” – Karen Lamb

“People who wonder if the glass is half empty or full miss the point. The glass is refillable.” – Unknown

“Fortune sides with him who dares.” – Virgil

“You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.” – Rabindranath Tagore

“Make each day your masterpiece.” – John Wooden

“Mistakes are the portals of discovery.” – James Joyce

“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” – Benjamin Franklin

“The only source of knowledge is experience.” – Albert Einstein

“Error is not a fault in itself, but only when it remains uncorrected.” – Leonardo da Vinci

“We are all learners, every step of the way.” – Oprah Winfrey

“The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you.” – B.B. King

“Knowledge is power.” – Francis Bacon

“The expert in anything was once a beginner.” – Helen Hayes

“Growth begins where comfort ends.” – Neale Donald Walsch

“Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.” – Oscar Wilde

“Failure is feedback. Use it wisely.” – Robert Kiyosaki

“Don’t make the same mistake twice. There are so many new ones to choose from.” – Ellen DeGeneres

“Perfect is boring. The flaws are what make it beautiful.” – Unknown

“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.” – Marilyn Monroe

“Have the courage to be imperfect, to make mistakes, and to learn.” – Brené Brown

“Nothing is perfect. There is grace in the cracks.” – Leonard Cohen

“Done is better than perfect.” – Sheryl Sandberg

“Striving for perfection is exhausting. Striving for excellence is energizing.” – Unknown

“Be kind to yourself. You're doing the best you can.” – Unknown

“Progress, not perfection.” – Unknown

“Let go of the need to be perfect. Focus on being real.” – Steve Maraboli

“Authenticity is the daily practice of letting go of who we think we’re supposed to be and embracing who we are.” – Brené Brown

“Scars are tattoos with better stories.” – Unknown

“Out of imperfection, comes beauty.” – Auguste Rodin

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

“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill

“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” – Henry David Thoreau

“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” – Robert Collier

“The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.” – Colin R. Davis

“Success is not measured by how high you climb, but how many people you bring with you.” – Unknown

“Success is not owned, it is rented—and rent is due every day.” – Chris Graham

“Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable.” – John Wooden

“Behind every successful person is a string of failures.” – Unknown

“Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.” – Dale Carnegie

“Success is not how far you got, but the distance you traveled to get there.” – Unknown

“The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vidal Sassoon

“Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.” – Winston Churchill

“Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” – George Addair

“Fear is only as deep as the mind allows.” – Japanese Proverb

“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“Don’t be afraid to fail big, fail often, and fail forward.” – John C. Maxwell

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Fear stops more dreams than failure ever will.” – Suzy Kassem

“Action is the antidote to fear.” – Tony Robbins

“Fear is excitement without breath.” – Fritz Perls

“Feel the fear and do it anyway.” – Susan Jeffers

“Move out of your head and into action. That’s where healing and answers live.” – Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“In a growth mindset, challenges are exciting rather than threatening.” – Carol Dweck

“Effort is what makes you smart.” – Carol Dweck

“No matter what your ability is, effort is what ignites that ability and turns it into accomplishment.” – Carol Dweck

“The passion for stretching yourself and sticking to it, even when it’s not going well, is the hallmark of the growth mindset.” – Carol Dweck

“Becoming is better than being.” – Carol Dweck

“You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.” – Zig Ziglar

“The moment you're afraid to do something, that's the moment you have to do it.” – Miley Cyrus

“Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together.” – James Cash Penney

“Challenges are what make life interesting. Overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” – Joshua J. Marine

“Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.” – Zig Ziglar

“Change your thoughts and you change your world.” – Norman Vincent Peale

“Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.” – Michael Jordan