Audre Lorde Quotes

Challenge yourself, jump off the deep end and learn to swim.

When someone asks me to do something, something new, something I don't know about, and if I haven't done it, I'll say yes. Just so I can try something new. You never know what you might like.

I'm not saying that everyone should swim with sharks, but sometimes you have to jump over your own shadow in order to learn something that you will never forget for the rest of your life. Then you know you can conquer your fears.

I've usually found that the greatest rewards in my life come from taking on things that are a little bit scary.

If you're just safe about the choices you make, you don't grow.

Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.

My motto in life is 'Take risks;' you don't have a voice if you don't. You have to venture outside your boundaries. That's what life's all about.

I'm always nudging myself into discomfort zones as much as I can.

I like a challenge. I like doing things that scare me.

It's important to take risks and challenge yourself. That's why I went into acting, really.

Life is an affirmation, not a defamation. Life means living. Life means taking that one tiny or giant leap beyond what you know you can do, or simply beyond what you know. It is in these moments that we live.

There are always risks when you chase after a dream because growth requires that you leave your comfort zone and enter unknown territory. But without confronting those risks and facing your fears, you'll never, as Nike says, "Just do it." Now the truth is, you may fail in some of your efforts, but you will never succeed if you are not willing to risk failure. And even if you do fail, you can learn from the experience and try again. To do that, you will need courage, and you will also need to have faith in your ability to achieve your goals.

I don't know what any individual should do about crossing her own borders. I only know that I live a happier, more adventurous life, by crossing borders.

If you don't go towards the thing you fear, you won't be able to say you lived.

It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience.

I find it somewhat liberating to jump, to dive into things that are the opposite of me.

I always say, you know, if I sit here and close my eyes and say, 'When did I learn the most in my life, in my career?' It'll always be when I close them and everything I think of is when I took a risk. It's when I think I learned the most.

I like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then.

It seems like the more I live, the more I realize that saying 'yes' is almost never a mistake. If you say no, it might feel safe, but then you end up going nowhere.

Risk means everything from being honest about your faith, to moving, to quitting a job that's paying you a fortune but it's not what's in your heart. Risking things is one of the biggest fears we have.

The only risk is not taking the risk. You've got to take that step.

Because travel has always been such a vital part of myself and so essential to who I am, I have made the decision to continue to put myself back out into the world. And that's not an easy decision to make.

The thing is most people are afraid to step out, to take a chance beyond their established identity.

The litmus test for whether I want to take on a role or not is usually fear. If I'm afraid of it, then I want to do it.

I think it's important to take chances.