Paulo Coelho Quotes

Do stuff that scares you on a regular basis. I think it's good for the body and for the mind.

I learned to always take on things I'd never done before.

Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Do what you fear and fear disappears.

Risks, I like to say, always pay off. You learn what to do, or what not to do.

Every opportunity I got, I took it as a learning experience.

It's always good to go outside of your comfort zone.

You learn so much from taking chances, whether they work out or not. Either way, you can grow from the experience and become stronger and smarter.

You can tell someone you love them first. You can try to speak only the truth for a whole week. You can jump out of an airplane or spend Christmas Day all by your lonesome. You can help people who need help and fight real bad guys. You can dance fast or take an improv class or do one of those Ironman things… Adventure and danger can be good for your heart and soul.

You can't go into new life experiences without the understanding that yeah, you may fail, but knowing you might fail can't stop you from trying.

All those hours exploring the great outdoors made me more resilient and confident.

I love finding things that scare me and doing them. That's how you grow.

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

I love to take risks and see how I cope with the situation.

Challenge yourself, jump off the deep end and learn to swim.

Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know. I truly believe what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Even if you fail, learning and moving on is sometimes the best thing.

I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're doing something.

I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers.

Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.

You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.

The best piece of advice someone has ever given me was 'do it scared.' And no matter if you're scared, just go ahead and do it anyway because you might as well do it scared, so it will get done and you will feel so much better if you step out of your comfort zone.

I think generally, in life, I try to always ensure that there are periodic moments where I do venture out of my comfort zone, because that's what keeps you alive. That's what keeps you from getting stale.

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.

Adventure should be 80 percent 'I think this is manageable,' but it's good to have that last 20 percent where you're right outside your comfort zone. Still safe, but outside your comfort zone.