Alex Pettyfer Quotes

Fear of failure is a great thing. It pushes you past your comfort levels.

Work is exciting when it's challenging. It should be something that makes me afraid initially and prompts me to ask myself whether I'll be able to do it or not.

I want to scare myself when I choose what I want to work on.

A lot of the time, people want to hear from someone like myself. They want to give it a shot. It's challenging, and it's driven me more than discouraged me.

I get excited when the people I work with scare me. I get excited when I'm surrounded by people who make me better and make me stay on my game and challenge me.

Excitement and reward exist only outside your comfort zone. You'll experience neither of them until you make yourself do something you really don't want to do. So what is it that scares the hell out of you?

I'm excited about being an owner, it's got my competitive juices going. I'm scared, but excited as well.

If your body is excited to do something, that's what you should be doing. Or if it really scares you, you should be doing it.

Auditioning for something you already know and love is terrifying.

I still take way more jobs than I turn down, and the reason that I turn down a job is that I just can't find anything in it that charges me or excites me or challenges me about moving to the next phase of where I'm headed.

I work best when a little scared, when there's so much more than the lines to think about.

The more I do, the more frightened I get. But that is essential. Otherwise why would I go on doing it?

I'm always looking for a new thing that really terrifies me that I think I can't do it and accomplish that.

For me, anything that you take on, you want to be challenged. That's what makes the job exciting.

I guess I'm motivated by the fear of failure to some degree and knowing what can happen when you don't do things the way you need to do them to have success.

There's so much pressure, but I think if you really love it, if you truly love it, and it's your passion to sing, then that's what will get through. I think if you don't have that, you'll realise quickly.

It's better to set a big goal to try and then fail than to never set a goal in the first place.

I may sound a bit crazy, but I get really excited with all the enormous hard work that I put myself through every day.

I couldn't stand the thought of not succeeding; failure was more than I could deal with.

We are all afraid. That's the thing that unites all truly successful people: fear, fear of failing, fear of criticism, fear of letting down the team in some way. That why they try so hard, that's why they pay attention to detail and try to get every possible duck in a row. It's fear

Some people are motivated by visualizing themselves reaching their dream. Some people are motivated by the nightmare of not reaching it. Do both.

As a player and a coach, I've had plenty of great moments, but I've also experienced disappointments. The disappointments are not about self-doubt, but rather about change. I've always seen failures as a personal challenge. I say to myself: Now I have to find out if I have the right stuff.

I'm still fighting to get the things I want and to do the projects I want to do. I think it will always be a fight or a challenge, but not being in my comfort zone keeps me very excited and happy.