For some,
fear of success prevents people from pursuing their dreams, for others it's the opposite: fear of failure.
Not exact matches
Tragically, Stolypin was assassinated by terrorists who
feared the
success of his plan (which Solzhenitsyn estimates could have created an independent peasantry in twenty years and
prevented Communist revolution).
Among other traits that have been used to account for levels
of motivation are «
fear of failure», which
prevents people from trying hard enough, and its stablemate, «
fear of success», which has the same effect.