Jimmy Buffett Quotes

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.

It might be scary because you're taking a risk, but at the end of the day you can say you tried.

'Whiplash' scared me. I feel you should only do projects that scare you to some degree. I get motivated by those sorts of feelings.

What I tell these young people is, the world is not as dangerous as the older generation would like you to believe. Anyone I know who has ever taken a risk and lost a job has ended up getting a better one two years later.

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

You don't want to leave 'what if's in life.

I tend to go toward things that make me afraid.

Without risk you can't experience life. There have to be risks, physically and mentally, taken by everyone.

I remember all the stages in my career where I almost didn't have enough confidence to try for something, almost didn't have the guts to follow something I was excited about doing, because I didn't know anyone else who'd done it, or other people made me question it.

Sometimes a leap of faith doesn't pan out.

There's always risk in life's most rewarding pursuits, isn't there?

You know what happens when you don't take a risk? Nothing.

So many people are frightened to take a chance in life and there's so many chances you have to take.

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

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.

The biggest risk I've ever taken is going on American Idol and trying to be myself. I wasn't going to try too hard to conform, and I knew that it could possibly not work out.

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

I've been scared and I've liked not hanging on to stuff where I know that I'm in my comfort zone.

As we grow older I always think, why didn't I do more when I was young, why didn't I risk more?

Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.

My part had three lines. I said, 'You look wonderful, sir,' three times. All my friends said, 'Do not take that role - and do not understudy. You'll regret it the rest of your life.' I did both of those things, and I've never regretted it once.

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

Sometimes it's bad to do something you've never done before.

Regret is pointless. I never do anything without first deciding to do it based on facts and feelings, and if it doesn't work out how I hoped, oh well - there's another notch on my experience belt.

To tell her that I joined the parachute club was too hard for me. I didn't want to trouble her; besides, I was not completely sure about the success of my new adventure.