We’ve listed 20 empowering quotes to inspire you to live courageously and shun fear of failure.

20 Quotes on overcoming failure 

1. Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. – Robert F Kennedy

2. The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.- Sven Goran Eriksson

3. If you are afraid to fail, your successes will be few, common, and unmemorable. – Lorii Myers

4. When we give ourselves permission to fail, at the same time, we give ourselves permission to excel. – Eloise Ristad

5. Everything you want is on the other side of fear. – Jack Canfield

6. One who fears failure limits his activities. Henry Ford

7. I failed my way to success. – Thomas Edison

8. When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work. – George Bernard Shaw

9. Feel the fear and do it anyway! – Susan Jeffers

10. Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. – Dale Carnegie

11. It is foolish to fear what you cannot avoid. – Publius Syrus

12. What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? – Vincent van Gogh

13. The brave man is not the one without fear but the one who does what he must despite being afraid. To succeed, you must be willing to risk total failure. – Raymond E. Feist

14. Patience means knowing it will happen . . . and giving it time to happen. – Susan Jeffers

15. Be consciously at peace with your efforts, no matter if they end in success or not. Being at peace with your failures – this the stepping stone to eventual success. – Michael Sage

16. Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. Winston Churchill

17. People living deeply have no fear of death. – Anais Nin

18. Not failure, but low aim, is crime. – James Russell Lowell

19. Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt. – William Shakespeare

20. Whoever watches the wind will not plant; whoever looks at the clouds will not reap. – Ecclesiastes 11:4

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