“When you fear to fail, you fear something that has not happened yet. You predict your own failure, and by inaction, lock yourself into it.”

“When you get rid of your fear of failure, your tensions about succeeding… you can be yourself. Relaxed. You'll no longer be driving with your brakes on.”

Anthony de Mello (1931–1987) Indian writer

“Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.”

Jim Morrison (1943–1971) lead singer of The Doors

“Fear is bound to disappear when you realize that failure is not something shameful, damaging, destructive, or painful, but something natural.”

Sri Chinmoy (1931–2007) Indian writer and guru

“It is because you yourself fear the propaganda created, after all, only by the stupidity of your own bigots.”

Isaac Asimov book Pebble in the Sky

“Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.”

Pope John XXIII (1881–1963) 261st Pope of the Catholic Church

“When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.”

Epictetus (50–138) philosopher from Ancient Greece

“Arm yourself, my heart: the thing that you must do is fearful, yet inevitable.”

Euripidés (-480–-406 BC) ancient Athenian playwright

“If you fail in your leadership, then blame yourself. God has nothing to do with you leading other souls under your own feet.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“Whatever you fear most has no power--it is your fear that has the power”

Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist