Carol Leifer Quotes

The only regrets I have are things I didn't do.

I firmly believe that life is an 'and' proposition and not an 'or' one. If you really love something, you just have to try it. The worse that can happen is that you'll be told 'no.'

We really only have two choices. Play it safe, or take a chance. For me, pulling back because of fear has always made me feel worse.

A lot of people don't just go ahead and try things.

The only things you regret are the things you don't do.

I don't reject caution, but you also have to be careful about caution because there's a stage when it turns into paralysis.

You tend to regret the things you haven't done.

I was a little careful when I first started off. A lot of times, for example, I thought, 'Oh, I can't pull that song off.' I should have just done it.

I started with the firm conviction that when I came to the end, I wanted to be regretting the things that I had done, not the things I hadn't.

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'd much rather try and fail than talk about trying.

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.

You don't want to leave 'what if's in life.

I've never regretted anything I've done, even the things that I've failed at. I've often regretted not trying something really big, because you'll never know.

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.

The one thing I learned is to just give everything a shot. You don't want to live in regret.

I think, you know, if you're young - even if you're old, it doesn't matter how old you are - but if you find something that you really want to try, just give it a try.

You have to have fear to take risks - and I want to at least try.

When you remove the risk, you remove the challenge. When you remove the challenge, you wither on the vine.

Very few persons go through life without at least one big chance. The fact that so many do not grasp it is due more often to fear than to any other one thing.

Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.

Unwillingness to risk failure is always there, but it gets harder when you feel you have more to lose.

To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

I'd rather regret doing something than not doing something.

Good parts should always scare you a little bit, and good parts... you might not get advice to do them.