Mary Lou Retton Quotes

The most dangerous place is in your safety zone.

The comfort zone is the great enemy of courage and confidence.

I believe that not much happens of any significance when we're in our comfort zone.

Seek opportunity, not security. A boat in the harbor is safe, but in time its bottom will rot out.

The biggest rewards in life are found outside your comfort zone. Live with it. Fear and risk are prerequisites if you want to enjoy a life of success and adventure.

Most everything that you want is just outside your comfort zone.

If you stick to what you know; you sell yourself short.

Comfort can be a dangerous thing. You stick around home all the time where it’s safe and nothing ever changes, and before you know it, you get set in your ways and you quit learning, you quit changing, you don’t grow anymore.

Excitement and reward exist only outside your comfort zone. You'll experience neither of them until you make yourself do something you really don't want to do. So what is it that scares the hell out of you?

Personally, I've never been attracted to danger. It's not my sort of thing. I am more attracted to pubs and cafes. The known, safe and comfortable world.

There's a real danger in trying to stay king of the mountain. You stop taking risks, you stop being as creative, because you're trying to maintain a position. Apart from anything else that really takes the fun out of it.

Don't grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it.

It's so easy to fall into a comfortable groove in life where you do the things that you like, and because of that, often times, we don't grow or change because we're not pushing ourselves.

If you play it safe in life you've decided that you don't want to grow any more.

A comfort zone is a beautiful place, but nothing grows there.

Do one thing every day that scares you.

When you succeed, at a certain point, you want to challenge yourself. Otherwise, you become boring. You become a has-been. It's not very interesting. I don't want to be this guy who has only succeeded in France.

When you're constantly stuck in your comfort zone, it means you're not growing.

One of my biggest fears, in both my personal and business life, is residing too long in my comfort zone.

Not just in films, even in life, if you choose to live in a space that is comfortable, you'll do fine.

That's a big part of my life - doing things that I'm not prepared to do. Doing things that I don't know how to do, and keep doing them until I get good at them. I always try to put myself out of my comfort zone and out of my depth, and hopefully somewhere along the line I'll catch up.

Venture outside your comfort zone. To stop growing is to stop living.

The comfort zone takes our greatest aspirations and turns them into excuses for not bothering to aspire.

If your life is going to be dictated by what's comfortable, your life will stink.

Safety lies in tending towards our highest and not in resting content with an inferior potentiality..... To rest in or follow after an inferior potentiality may seem safe, rational, comfortable, easy, but it ends badly, in some futility or in a mere circling down the abyss or in a stagnant morass. Our right and natural road is towards the summits.