Elizabeth Appell Quotes

To imagine a better life for yourself and your family and to leave behind all that is familiar requires a special kind of courage.

It's very scary to become someone new, to take that path less followed.

I find it somewhat liberating to jump, to dive into things that are the opposite of me.

I always say, you know, if I sit here and close my eyes and say, 'When did I learn the most in my life, in my career?' It'll always be when I close them and everything I think of is when I took a risk. It's when I think I learned the most.

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Today is the day to break free from the prison of the person you know yourself to be and step into a self you have yet to know. Will it be comfortable? No, but do it anyway.

Change can be beautiful when we are brave enough to evolve with it, and change can be brutal when we fearfully resist.

Our earlier lives aren't wrong, they are just pre-construction. Our lives are meant to unfold, to evolve, and that's good. The only wrong thing, perhaps, is permanently hesitating on the verge of courage, which would prevent this process from taking place.

If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone.

Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. It may mean a giving up of familiar but limiting patterns, safe but unrewarding work, values no longer believed in, relationships that have lost their meaning. As Dostoevsky put it, "Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most." The real fear should be of the opposite course.

What wonderful thing didn't start out scary?

One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.

You have to have fear to take risks - and I want to at least try.

Change and growth is so painful. But it's so necessary for us to evolve.

Every day I do something that freaks me out.

It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience.

We have a normal. As you move outside of your comfort zone, what was once the unknown and frightening becomes your new normal.

To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.

Sometimes the things that scare me are the things I'm drawn to: moving to London, L.A., New York; marrying, having a kid. In order to live a full life, sometimes you have to do things that scare you.

Sometimes when you think you are done, it is just the edge of beginning. Probably that's why we decide we're done. It's getting too scary. We are touching down onto something real. It is beyond the point when you think you are done that often something strong comes out.

I want to try new things and put myself out there and take some risks.

Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.

The trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

Every journey starts with fear.