Mark Burnett Quotes

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.

My comfort zone is like a little bubble around me, and I've pushed it in different directions and made it bigger and bigger until these objectives that seemed totally crazy eventually fall within the realm of the possible.

I'm glad I've had to struggle. It's made me the artist I am now.

Moving outside of your comfort zone is one thing I learned from my training as an actor in England.

I love, when I feel challenged, to step up to my highest capacity.

Take risks. Fail. Pick yourself back up again. And always, always remember this: there is no adversity capable of stopping you once the choice to persevere is made.

You have to motivate yourself with challenges. That's how you know you're still alive.

People like to be challenged. Most people that I know who are any good at life like to be challenged.

I'm inspired by challenges. My life was always like this.

I want to be an example of a guy who made something of himself out of nothing. A guy who overcame the odds of a tough childhood, who worked hard, who didn't let his surroundings get the best of him and lead him to jail or the graveyard. Where I ended up - being a comedian, a TV star, and a movie actor - might be unique, but my story is not.

I've had great success and I've had catastrophic failure. It's really how you handle the rough stuff that defines you, I think.

I think it's a great thing to have failed in life and then pulled yourself up by the boot straps and actually done something, because then you appreciate it more.

I had to overcome challenge after challenge in order to take my life from nothing to living my dreams.

I have had unsuccessful films, but I learned a lot from those films. I give my failures as much importance as my success.

If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.

It's failure, really, that you grow by, although nobody likes to experience it.

We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.

It's not what you achieve, it's what you overcome. That's what defines your career.

Comfort zones are most often expanded through discomfort.

The mere fact that so many continue to rise, year after year, out of just such conditions as you may think are fatal to your advancement, ought to convince you that you also can conquer your environment.

I don't remember anything from the Bills. It was rough there, but it is what it is. Now I'm here in the Super Bowl, just trying to enjoy that.

Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.

Well, I believe that the depth of your struggle can determine the height of your success. I was inspired to come out of everything I've been through and end up in a place where I never thought that I would be.

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

I grew up below the poverty line; I didn't have as much as other people did. I think it made me stronger as a person, it built my character. Now I have a 4.0 grade point average and I want to go to college, and just become a better person.