Patrick Ness Quotes

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

Just put your best foot forward and hope for the best. You also have to acknowledge that you're going to make mistakes.

No man is beaten until his hope is annihilated, his confidence gone, As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly, he is not a failure; he is not beaten until he turns his back on life.

Adventures are only interesting once you've lived to see the end of them. Before that, they are nothing but fear, and being too cold or too hot or too wet or too hungry, and getting hurt.

"We’ll never survive!” “Nonsense. You’re only saying that because no one ever has."

She believes in love and romance. She believes her life is one day going to be transformed into something wonderful and exciting. She has hopes and fears and worries, just like anyone. Sometimes she feels frightened. Sometimes she feels unloved. Sometimes she feels she will never gain approval from those people who are most important to her. But she’s brave and good-hearted and faces her life head-on.

Hope, it is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective, a lot of hope is dangerous.

Every day I do something that freaks me out.

Auditioning for something you already know and love is terrifying.

The biggest edge I live on is directing. That's the most scary, dangerous thing you can do in your life.

When I said the city would be stronger, I didn't know that. I just hoped it. There are parts of you that say, 'Maybe we're not going to get through this.' You don't listen to them.

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

Latin Americans hold on tight even to pain and suffering, preferring a certain present to an uncertain future. Some of this is only natural, entirely human. But for us, the fear is paralyzing; it generates not only anxiety but also paralysis.

My life is a beautiful struggle.

In the face of excruciating pain and uncertainty, I never lost hope, and it never occurred to me to stop fighting - not ever.

Life is a risk.

It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.

Above all, don't fear difficult moments. The best comes from them.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

Have a little faith, kick a little dirt.

Every time you go out there to do something, you wonder if you can do it. There's no assured success. There's no secret recipe for success. Every time you go out there, you go out there with the possibility of great failure.

Living is risking.

It's easy to walk away from risk, and you don't actually have to face it. Success is based upon overcoming the inherent risk you can't manage your way out of.

You must risk to win.

Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.