The fear of failure is one of the biggest obstacles that entrepreneurs face. Unfortunately, this very fear is one of the most common reasons for the failure of a business. You see, when you are afraid of failure, it can be crippling.

When you are in such a constant state of fear, it is incredibly difficult to get anything done, because you are so afraid that anything you produce will fail anyway. Sometimes its a bit of a cop-out mentally. You feel in your subconscious that you will fail, so you start to think, “Why bother?”
Many times a person won’t even be aware of this. Sometimes they just feel this ache in the pit of their stomach ever time they try to work, and they don’t know what it is. All they really know is that it’s making them dread doing any work, and they want to just sit back and play a game or watch television or go fishing.

The trick to overcoming this is to realize that it is okay to fail! Really, it is! If you learn from your mistakes, failure is actually a GOOD thing, because you have learned one way to NOT do things. Once you have eliminated this particular way of doing things, you will not repeat it, which makes it much more likely that you will succeed the next time.

There are plenty of quotes that apply to the fear of failure. Hopefully, these will help you find the strength to face your fear and realize that, fail or succeed, NOTHING can be accomplished if you do not try.

Overcome The Fear Of Failure Quotes

“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.” Eleanor Roosevelt

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself-nameless, unreasoning, unjustified, terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. Franklin D. Roosevelt

Inside of every problem lies an opportunity.  Robert Kiyosaki

“Face your fears and doubts, and new worlds will open up to you.  Robert Kiyosaki

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task. Vince Lombardi

Whatever humans have learned had to be learned as a consequence only of trial and error experience. Humans have learned only through mistakes. Buckminster Fuller

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.  H. Ross Perot

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.” B.C. Forbes

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