Inspirational Phrases about Life, Fear and Failure

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1. “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Neale Donald Walsch

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2. “There’s only one way you can fail, and that’s to quit.” – Brian Hays

3. “The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.” – Edward J Phelps

4. “Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.” – Michael Pritchard

5. “Opportunities don’t happen. You create them.” – Chris Grosser

6. “Action is the foundational key to all success.” – Pablo Picasso

7. “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

8. “You cannot find peace by avoiding life.” ― Michael Cunningham

9. “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” ― Mae West

10. “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” ― Albert Einstein

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11. “Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.” – William Saroyan

12. “To acknowledge you were wrong yesterday is to acknowledge you are wiser today.” – Charles Haddon Spurgeon

13. “We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.”― May Sarton

14. “To be truly alive, we need two capabilities: To swim against the tide and to float downstream.” – Zen Buddhist Saying

15. “We are able to be of service to those who suffer only to the extent that we have been able to transform fear in our own lives.” – Robert Sardello

16. “You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

17. “An intelligent person understands others, a brilliant person understands himself.” – Chinese Proverb

18. “Try a thing you haven’t tried before three times: once to get over the fear, once to find out how to do it and a third time to find out if you like it or not.” – Virgil Thomson

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19. “The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

20. “If you are deliberately trying to create a future that feels safe, you will willfully ignore the future that is likely.” – Seth Godin

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21. “Never apologize for showing feelings. When you do so, you apologize for truth.” – Benjamin Disraeli

22. As she had been walking from the ward to that room, she had felt such pure hatred that now she had no more rancor left in her heart. She had finally allowed her negative feelings to surface, feelings that had been repressed for years in her soul. She had actually FELT them, and they were no longer necessary, they could leave. – Paulo Coelho

23. When she cried, he would say, there is nothing wrong with crying. Your feelings tell you who are. They tell what is important. Don’t ever be ashamed of them. – Terry Brooks

24. What we don’t let out traps us. We think, No one else feels this way, I must be crazy. So we don’t say anything. And we become enveloped by a deep loneliness, not knowing where our feelings come from or what to do with them. Why do I feel this way? – Sabrina Ward Harrison

25. One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels. – Gustave Flaubert

26. That was one of the saddest things about people; their most important thoughts and feelings often went unspoken and barely understood. – Alexandra Adornetto

27. The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.- Helen Keller

28. “Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.” – Theodore Isaac Rubin

29. “Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston S. Churchill

30. “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” – Henry David Thoreau

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31. “Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better. – Jim Rohn

32. “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill

33. “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.” – Colin Powell

34. “Do one thing every day that scares you.” – Anonymous

35. “Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.” – Richard Branson

36. “Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.” – George E. Woodberry

37. “THE LAW OF FAILURE: There is no failure, only feedback. No mistakes, only learning. No errors, only results.” – NLP Presupposition

38. “A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that other throw at him.” – David Brinkley

39. “Success is simple. Do what’s right, the right way, at the right time.” – Arnold H. Glasgow

40. “The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.” – John D. Rockefeller Jr.

Inspirational phrases about life

41. “Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the number of moments that take our breath away.” – Anonymous

42. “Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.” ― Allen Saunders

43. “Whatever humans have learned had to be learned as a consequence only of trial and error experience. Humans have learned only through mistakes.” – Buckminster Fuller

44. “My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.” – Abraham Lincoln

45. “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” ― Robert Frost

46. “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”― Isaac Asimov

47. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”― George Bernard Shaw

48. “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”― Oscar Wilde

49. “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”― Kurt Vonnegut

50. “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”― Andre Gide

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51. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius

52. “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.” – Amelia Earhart

53. “Courage is one step ahead of fear.” – Coleman Young

54. “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” – John Lennon

55. “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” — George Addair

56. “Either you run the day, or the day runs you.” – Jim Rohn

57. “We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.” – Kenji Miyazawa

58. “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

59. “Hard times don’t create heroes. It is during the hard times when the ‘hero’ within us is revealed.” – Bob Riley

60. “Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart.” – Ancient Indian Proverb

Inspirational phrases to boost your spirits

61. “Get busy living or get busy dying.” — Stephen King

62. “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” — Mae West

63. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”– Thomas A. Edison

64. “If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.” – Albert Einstein

65. “Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.” – Babe Ruth

66.  “Money and success don’t change people; they merely amplify what is already there.” — Will Smith

67. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking.” – Steve Jobs

68. “Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.” — Seneca

69. “If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

70. “The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything.” – Frank Sinatra

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