Emily Giffin Quotes

Well, I always run the risk of falling on my face, which has in fact happened.

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

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

To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

I missed so many opportunities along the way to do what I wanted to do because I didn't have the confidence to tell myself, much less anybody else, 'Yes, this is the business I wanted to be a part of, and not feeling that I had the talent... and letting it go all the way through Notre Dame and then through two years of Navy service.

If I give up my career as a skater simply because I fear I won't show my best performance, I would be really sorry later in life.

If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.

I wasn't going to be one of those people who died wondering what if? I would keep putting my dreams to the test - even though it meant living with uncertainty and fear of failure. This is the shadowland of hope, and anyone with a dream must learn to live there.

I think to be courageous, you have to be afraid. For me, it feels very courageous when I go skiing because I'm very, very afraid to ski. It's dangerous! I feel very scared. But when I'm acting, I don't feel very scared.

Auditioning for something you already know and love is terrifying.

Any goal worth achieving involves an element of risk.

Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can and surely will at times fail. Other vulnerabilities, like being embarrassed or risking love, can be terrifying, too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.

Good parts should always scare you a little bit, and good parts... you might not get advice to do them.

I worry about the many things that could happen to the people I love.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.

I firmly believe that life is an 'and' proposition and not an 'or' one. If you really love something, you just have to try it. The worse that can happen is that you'll be told 'no.'

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.

I don't feel like I have anything to lose, so I don't really understand what I'm putting at risk.

I wanted him to love me, and I'm quite sure that he didn't.

The trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

I guess the bigger you dream, the further you have to fall if you don't get it, so it can be a bit of a scary thing to be that ambitious.

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.

We've created an impression that life is risk-free, and it's not.