James Northcote Quotes

If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.

Unwillingness to risk failure is always there, but it gets harder when you feel you have more to lose.

Living with fear stops us taking risks, and if you don't go out on the branch, you're never going to get the best fruit.

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

I knew I could make people laugh but I was frightened of doing it. I thought, 'What if I'm crap, what if I'm no good at it?', but I knew I should have a go and shouldn't sit inside watching other people do it on television.

My advice is don't keep asking yourself if you can do something. Just get out there and do it. You can really surprise yourself.

I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something, 100%, because I had never reached true failure.

I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.

We really only have two choices. Play it safe, or take a chance. For me, pulling back because of fear has always made me feel worse.

To be honest, I probably wouldn't have gone to Hollywood if I hadn't been offered 'Ugly Betty' because I was a wee bit feart. But you have to make yourself frightened. That's what keeps you alive.

The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

I tend to do things that I'm very frightened of. That's what I do.

He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.

Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don't choose what they want; they choose what they think is safe.

Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.

Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.

You have to try things you're really afraid of, even if you pee yourself a little bit.

Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who've never done anything because if you haven't been successful, then you don't know how it feels to lose it all. You don't have that fear. So why do you think people get stuck in those boxes? It's that fear of going back down.

If you start worrying about risks, you might as well stay inside the womb.

I was a little careful when I first started off. A lot of times, for example, I thought, 'Oh, I can't pull that song off.' I should have just done it.

Everybody has had that experience of really wanting to do something and being afraid.

If you're afraid to do something then you're probably never going to achieve it.

But I didn’t dare. That has always been my trouble. I’ve never dared enough.

If you're afraid to fail, then you're probably going to fail.