Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes

Basically, I try to look at everything I do as a stretch.

You have to learn to get comfortable being uncomfortable. You have to be willing to get out of your comfort zone and push your limits.

Challenges give me a kick. The day I stop getting challenges, I would quit.

If you succeed at most of your activities, your goals are set much too low.

I've always thrived on challenges, both personally and professionally.

I love biting off way more than I can chew, and that's a great motivator because it forces me to rise to the occasion.

I felt, and it may sound a bit stupid, that I want to try things that are hard.

Reach for it. Push yourself as far as you can.

You never want to rest on your laurels. You want to keep doing things that terrify you.

I really try to put myself in uncomfortable situations. Complacency is my enemy.

I like to take up something that is challenging. I like to stretch myself.

I pledged to become the world's greatest expert in a field I knew nothing about.

It's an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure... Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.

The way that I am now, I don't want to accept mediocrity. I don't want to accept the easy road.

I've always been a guy who likes to stretch my limits - to find out if I have any, really.

Most of all I don't want to be bored. That's why I'd rather do something that has some sort of ambition, that risks failing, rather than make safer, more comfortable choices.

It's important to set challenges that you're not sure you're equal to.

Never stop taking risks. Just keep reaching.

Everyone has a 'risk muscle.' You keep it in shape by trying new things. If you don't, it atrophies. Make a point of using it at least once a day.

It's the uncertainty, the challenge and the willingness to put it all on the line that draws a lot of people to climb mountains. That can also apply to a lot of other challenges in life, whether it's running for office, starting a family, going to grad school or taking all of your cash and assets and starting a business.

Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition - in having put forth the best within you.

I don't ever want to get too comfortable in my career or life. My nature is such that I'm always looking for new challenges.

I'm always looking for a new thing that really terrifies me that I think I can't do it and accomplish that.

I don't think you should do something just to prove to an audience that you can do it, that's way out of your wheelhouse.

I'd rather attempt something I'm not sure I can do.