Jon M. Chu Quotes

Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home, or we fight through it.

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

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

Don't be frightened of failure. It makes you stronger if you learn from your mistakes.

I have stepped outside my comfort zone enough to know that, yes, the world does fall apart, but not in the way that you fear.

I wasn't afraid of failing. A lot of people fear failure, and I think that holds a lot of people back. But a lot of times, it's possibly the best thing that could happen to you because you learn how to get back up, you learn how to do it better and you're stronger from that.

Where do you put the fear when you choose to innovate? The fear is there, but you have to find a place to put it.

The hope of courage lies in every heart, together with the fear that we will fail. When the test came, you did not fail.

Only a fool is never afraid, Frank. Heroes are the people who carry on despite their fear, because they know the job’s got to get done

I enjoy the fun of failure. It's fun to fail, I kept repeating. It's part of being ambitious; it's part of being creative. If something is worth doing, it's worth doing badly

If you are afraid to fail, you will never succeed.

There are always risks when you chase after a dream because growth requires that you leave your comfort zone and enter unknown territory. But without confronting those risks and facing your fears, you'll never, as Nike says, "Just do it." Now the truth is, you may fail in some of your efforts, but you will never succeed if you are not willing to risk failure. And even if you do fail, you can learn from the experience and try again. To do that, you will need courage, and you will also need to have faith in your ability to achieve your goals.

Failure is an option, fear is not.

I have insecurities. But whatever I'm insecure about, I don't dissect it, but I'll go after it and say, "What am I afraid of?" I bet the average successful person can tell you they've failed so much more than they've had success. I've had far more failures than I've had successes. With every commercial I've gotten, there were 200 I didn't get. You have to go after what you're afraid of.

‘Tis better to have fought and lost, Than not to have fought at all.

Sometimes the future that you imagined to be the most dreadful, turns out to be the future that compels you to reach down very deeply into your being to uncover reservoirs of strength and perserverance that you had no idea were there.

Your willingness to fail is what will let you succeed.

Failing passionately is a success in its own right.

You cant be afraid to take a risk. You can't be afraid to take a risk because you think you might fail.

When fear rushed in, I learned how to hear my heart racing but refused to allow my feelings to sway me. That resilience came from my family. It flowed through our bloodline.

In every life there is an element of victory over fear, which needs to be searched for, though it may be a false victory.

All we can do in life is push through the things that make us afraid and try to be better.

Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.

One thing about pushing yourself outside your comfort zone is that you're going to make mistakes, and you're going to fall flat on your face sometimes.

I'll keep doing the things I don't know if I'm good enough to do.