I don’t fear failure. I only fear the slowing up of the engine inside of me which is saying, ‘Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?

"If you're afraid to fail, then you're probably going to fail. Pain doesn't telle you when you ought to stop. Pain is the little voice in your head that tries to hold you back beacuse it knows if you continue you will change" -

Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying.

It is not failure itself that holds people back; it is the fear of failure that paralyzes you.

Don't fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

The fear of failure doesn’t prevent failure, it guarantees it.

If you're afraid to fail, then you're probably going to fail. Pain doesn't tell you when you ought to stop. Pain is the little voice in your head that tries to hold you back because it knows if you continue you will change.

There is fear of failure here. People keep saying what if this goes wrong, what if that doesn’t work. Every time I want to do something, there is this fear that it may go wrong. It comes up each time.

Fear of failure is higher when you're not working on the problem.

If you are taking action, you are less worried about failure because you realize you can influence the outcome.

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

Fear and failure are always present. Accept them as part of life and learn how to manage these realities. Be scared, but keep going. Being scared is usually transient. It will pass. If you fail, fix the causes and keep going.

The fear of failure isn’t an easy thing to sit with, but it’s also what pushes you to try your hardest no matter the cost.

Failure is one of those things that 'serious people' dread. Invariably, the persons most likely to be crippled by this fear are people who have convinced themselves that they are SO bitchen they shouldn't ever be placed in a situation where they might fail.
Failure is nothing to get upset about. It's a fairly normal condition; an inevitability in ninety-nine percent of all human undertakings. Success is rare — that's why people get so cranked up about it.

How dare I be discouraged in the work By anything so trivial As the fear of personal failure? — Paul Williams