Ability Quote by Richard Sennett

The desire to succeed has a lot less compulsion than the fear of failure.

— Gerald Seymour

We are more afraid of excellence than of failure.

— Marianne Williamson

“Our fear of failing at various tasks would likely be much less were it not for our awareness of how harshly failure tends to…

— Alain de Botton

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

I have seen many successful people fail after they start fearing they might lose what they have built.

— Guy Laliberte

Sometimes, when we want something so badly, we fear failure more than we fear being without that thing.

— Matthew J. Kirby

May we understand that fear of failure is worse than failure itself

— Paulo Coelho

One of the most dysfunctional beliefs of successful people is our contempt for simplicity and structure. We believe that we are above needing structure…

— Marshall Goldsmith

Failure is an enigma. You worry about it, and it teaches you something.

— James Dyson

Don't permit fear of failure to prevent effort. We are all imperfect and will fail on occasions, but fear of failure is the greatest…

— John Wooden

We are more heavily invested in the theories of failure than we are in the theories of success.

— Albert Bandura

I don't think failure is to be overcome as much as it is to be learned from.

— Karla Cheatham Mosley