Alicia Keys Quotes

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

Every time you go out there to do something, you wonder if you can do it. There's no assured success. There's no secret recipe for success. Every time you go out there, you go out there with the possibility of great failure.

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

Just put your best foot forward and hope for the best. You also have to acknowledge that you're going to make mistakes.

Hope may be the thing that pulls you forward, may be the thing that keeps you going, but that it's dangerous, that it's painful and risky, that it's making a dare in the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare?

I wasn't going to be one of those people who died wondering what if? I would keep putting my dreams to the test - even though it meant living with uncertainty and fear of failure. This is the shadowland of hope, and anyone with a dream must learn to live there.

Doubt is a necessary precondition tomeaningful action. Fear is the great mover in the end.

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

Well, I always run the risk of falling on my face, which has in fact happened.

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

You can tell when something's not moving forward anymore. When the doubts you have about it don't go away.

When you're fearful, you stumble.

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

You take the risk of being rejected.

To imagine a better life for yourself and your family and to leave behind all that is familiar requires a special kind of courage.

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

I think it always feels riskier and scarier to go after something you really love and want because the rejection and failure hurts more.

People get so scared to try things.

I don't like this little word 'if.' If we start adding 'if, if, if,' that means I wouldn't conquer anything completely.

I'm not great at trying new things.

Every book takes you to the terror, that terrible place of possible failure.

Don't let fear stop you. Don't give up because you are paralyzed by insecurity or overwhelmed by the odds, because in giving up, you give up hope. Understand that failure is a process in life, that only in trying can you enrich yourself and have the possibility of moving forward. The greatest obstacle in life is fear and giving up because of it.

Failure is not having the courage to try, nothing more and nothing less.

Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. It may mean a giving up of familiar but limiting patterns, safe but unrewarding work, values no longer believed in, relationships that have lost their meaning. As Dostoevsky put it, "Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most." The real fear should be of the opposite course.

I don't think you can create anything interesting from a comfort zone. You have to work from a place of fear and failure.