Phyllis Bottome Quotes

Don't wait. If it's not right, move on.

Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action. You must act as you breathe.

Looking back on my life, I wish I'd stepped forward and made a fool of myself more often when I was younger - because when you do, you find out you can do it.

You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.

Leap, and the net will appear.

It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.

When you hold things back, when you don't commit completely to your ideas and trust completely in your own instincts, you are guaranteeing your own failure - even if you end up having commercial success.

I've been trying to figure out for at least the last 10 years how to force myself into something more risky.

I just made the decision that I was going to try comedy, and if didn't work, then I knew it didn't work. Then I would go back and do whatever. But at least I wouldn't torture myself the rest of my life, wondering whatever would have happened.

It took me years to figure out that you don't fall into a tub of butter, you jump for it.

Thinking is easy; action is difficult; to act in accordance with one’s thought is the most difficult thing in the world.

My power for good, whatever it may, would be gone if I didn’t try to live up to the doctrines I have tried to preach.

I feel like I go in on a lot of things that I want to be going in for.

I like to put my money where my mouth is and go out there and perform and do what I gotta do.

I've discovered people in my lifetime who are like, 'I always wanted to sing but... ' It's like, 'Well then, did you try?' My thing was always not caring about failure.

I just feel it's a shame to let fear get in your way and stop you achieving things.

To me, it's important, always in life, to never wonder what would've happened if I only tried something.

If you're afraid to do something then you're probably never going to achieve it.

Avoid doing what you would blame others for doing.

The true gentleman does not preach what he practices till he has practiced what he preaches.

To all the rest of his Absurdities, (for vice is always unreasonable,) he adds one more, who expects that Vertue from another which he won't practise himself.

Be a doer and not a critic.

Right out of high school I never had the fear of getting beat, which is how most people lose.

I feel like I'm indirectly showing people, not that there's another way, but just that if you really have a dream, you should try and give it a go.