Comfort & Risk

The tension between safety and growth, stagnation and transformation

You can choose courage or comfort, but you can't choose both.

You think you are playing safe, but you are actually accumulating anxiety. Take bolder risks, it's mentally liberating.

If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine. It's lethal.

If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone.

Rather than steering your life to avoid surprises, aim directly for them.

When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.

Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.

Comfort is the enemy of achievement. The size of your life is directly proportional to how much discomfort you are willing to endure.

The risk of not changing is often greater than the risk of changing.

You'll never achieve what you want in life without taking risks. Prioritising risk over safety is the path to progress.

If you act average, you'll remain average. To outperform, you must be both different and correct.

Security is mostly a superstition. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.

The comfort zone is a beautiful place, but nothing ever grows there.

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly. The price of everything is discomfort and risk.

Great things never came from comfort zones. Dreams are achieved in the realm of uncertainty.

The man who believes he can do everything is a fool. The man who believes he can do nothing is a coward. The wise man knows what risks are worth taking.

Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical.

The prison of comfort has invisible bars. Most people don't realize they're incarcerated until it's too late to escape.

Every meaningful accomplishment in your life will require you to cross a bridge of uncertainty.

The fear of risk becomes the risk of fear. Paralysis by analysis is still paralysis.

Comfort is the drug that makes you forget your potential. Risk is the antidote that reminds you of it.

The greatest risk is taking no risk. In a world that's changing quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

Your growth is proportional to your willingness to experience discomfort. There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.