The fear of failing!

"The fear of failing at tasks would perhaps not be so great were it not for an awareness of how often failure tends to be harshly viewed and interpreted by others. Fear of the material consequences of failure is compounded by fear of the unsympathetic attitude of the world towards failure, of its haunting proclivity to refer to those who have failed as losers' - a word callously signifying both that people have lost and that they have at the same time forfeited any right to sympathy for having done so."