Paulo Coelho Quotes

Risks are a measure of people. People who won't take them are trying to preserve what they have. People who do take them often end up having more. Some risks have a future, and some people call them wrong. But being right may be like walking backwards proving where you've been. Being wrong isn't in the future, or in the past. Being wrong isn't anywhere but being here. Best place to be, eh?

If your life is ever going to get better, you'll have to take risks. There is simply no way you can grow without taking chances.

We cannot get what we've never had, unless we're willing to do what we've never done.

Without risk, there can be no growth.

Sometimes, it is necessary to step beyond what you have known and to reach for something more.

Wherever there is change, and wherever there is uncertainty, there is opportunity!

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure in order to embrace the new & unknown.

It's way easier to stay in the comfort zone, especially when things are going good than to go out on a limb and take some risks. My philosophy is exactly the opposite: Sometimes it's risky not to take a risk.

If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone.

And if there's anything I do it's change and grow. I'm just a living being. Every year of my life I seem to learn that everything I know is wrong.

A person who refuses to risk change fails to grow.

Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. It may mean a giving up of familiar but limiting patterns, safe but unrewarding work, values no longer believed in, relationships that have lost their meaning. As Dostoevsky put it, "Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most." The real fear should be of the opposite course.

Taking a chance and stepping beyond the safety of the world we've always known is the only way to grow.

If we never take a risk, we'll never know the parts of ourselves that would have emerged if we had.

The process of growing and learning always involves risk.

The riskiest thing we can do is just maintain the status quo.

If we decline to become set in our ways, that's good. But it doesn't always feel good. It can be very challenging.

If doing anything new, you're very used to having insurmountable obstacles.

It's very scary to become someone new, to take that path less followed.

My understanding is that change is inevitable, and it's what I do with that opportunity that really matters.

Seek opportunity, not security. A boat in the harbor is safe, but in time its bottom will rot out.

Change makes us confront the great unknown. It introduces different things into our lives. Different places. Different ideas. Different people. It's all hard to accept at times, and change can often be a little scary. But if there's one fact that I've learned from raising a family, from running several businesses, from serving in Congress and now as Governor, it's that nothing has ever grown without changing.

In order to get to the fruit of the tree, you have to go out on a limb.

The best things happen at the exit ramp of your comfort zone.

Life is about trying things to see if they work.