Francis Chan Quotes

There are people who make no mistakes because they never wish to do anything worth doing.

How can you admire a human who consciously embraces the bland, the mediocre, and the safe rather than risk the suffering that disappointment can bring?

A lot of guys spend their lives saying no because it's an easier way to keep your job.

Throughout my career, I have always played it safe with the kind of roles I've taken up.

I really felt like it was a dangerous trap to get into, having had such great success with 'Wishes,' it just wasn't in my blood not to play it safe and just do that again.

Some of us are timid. We think we have something to lose so we don't try for that next hill.

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.

Ironically, in a changing world, playing it safe is one of the riskiest things you can do.

If you're afraid to take risks in anything in life, it's just boredom.

One reason people never attempt new things is their fear of failure.

Creativity asks you to enter realms with uncertain outcomes. People want to create a safe life for themselves so they try to live without fear and they end up killing their creativity in the process.

Do not be one of those who, rather than risk failure, never attempts anything.

The most dangerous thing you can do in life is play it safe.

When failure is not an option, we can forget about creativity, learning, and innovation.

If there is a single tragic flaw that mars our biggest enterprises, it is conservatism - the failure to fail, and fail big, in an era of unprecedented volatility and ambiguity.

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.

There's a tremendous bias against taking risks. Everyone is trying to optimize their ass-covering.

You're unwilling to go out on a limb because it just might break underneath you.

The person who takes no chances generally has to take whatever is left when others are through choosing.

A lot of people don’t just go ahead and try things. They’ll have an idea and they’ll say — they’ll convince themselves or other people will convince them that it can’t be done. You know, one or the other. Actually I think that the first is even more dangerous and more serious. It’s convincing yourself that it can’t be done.

We seldom break a leg as long as we are climbing wearily upwards in our lives, instead we do it when we start going easy on ourselves and choosing the comfortable paths.

For the most part, most people most often choose comfort - the familiar, the time-honored, the well-worn but well-known. After a lifetime of choosing between comfort and risk, we are left with the life we currently have.

Uncertainty and the prospect of failure can be very scary noises in the shadows. Most people will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.

It's natural to be afraid of replacing everything you already gained by a dream.

Many people fail not so much because of their mistakes; they fail because they are afraid to try.