Brian Tracy Quotes

Fear of failure leads to failure.

It's your own fear of failure that stops you from doing things.

Fear of failure is a far worse condition than failure itself, because it kills off possibilities.

The number one cause of failure in this country is the fear of failure.

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

I've often met people who are terrified, you know, in a straight jacket of their own making because they'd rather do anything that fail. They don't want to try for fear of failing.

The power of "can't": The word "can't" makes strong people weak, blinds people who can see, saddens happy people, turns brave people into cowards, robs a genius of their brilliance, causes rich people to think poorly, and limits the achievements of that great person living inside us all.

To acknowledge the presence of fear is to give birth to failure.

One reason people never attempt new things is their fear of failure.

The fearful are the failing.

He who feared that he would not succeed sat still.

If you don't have confidence, you'll always find a way not to win.

I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something, 100%, because I had never reached true failure.

Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.

It's insecurity that is always chasing you and standing in the way of your dreams.

Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who've never done anything because if you haven't been successful, then you don't know how it feels to lose it all. You don't have that fear. So why do you think people get stuck in those boxes? It's that fear of going back down.

Most people don't really do too many things because they're afraid they'll fail. There are people failing all the time, all around you. And nobody is going to notice your failure. Your failure is not going to be so spectacular that people write news stories about it. Your failure will be boring.

I'm terrorized by a fear of failure. Failure is always there.

When you will, make a resolution, set your jaw, you are expressing an imaginative fear that you won't do the thing. If you knew you would do the thing, you would smile happily and set about it. And this fear (since the imagination is always creative) comes about presently and you slide down into the complete slump of several weeks or years - the very thing you dreaded and set your jaw against.

Fear causes people to draw back from situations. It brings on mediocrity, it dulls creativity, it sets one up to be a loser in life.

If you're afraid of failing you won't get very far

Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true.

One who fears failure limits his activities.

Doubt is one of the main paths on the highway to failure.

Perfectionism spells paralysis.