Jaycie Phelps Quotes

The risk for me would be in not taking one - that's the only thing that's really risky for me.

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.

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

You cant be afraid to take a risk. You can't be afraid to take a risk because you think you might fail.

The risk is not in doing something that feels risky. The risk is in not doing something that feels risky.

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

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

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.

I think it's important to take chances.

For me, the safest place is out on a limb.

How do you know you're going to do something, untill you do it?

To be honest, I probably wouldn't have gone to Hollywood if I hadn't been offered 'Ugly Betty' because I was a wee bit feart. But you have to make yourself frightened. That's what keeps you alive.

The trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

Yet in all those cases I finally steeled myself to seize the opportunity, and find a way to muddle through and eventually conclude that I had, in fact, chosen the right path, as risky as it seemed at the time.

I believe in taking chances and living your life. Sometimes doors open and others close and you have to figure out which one you're going to take. I'm always for the one that's challenging.

Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there's got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when you're at the edge, you have to go forward or backward; if you go forward, you have to jump together.

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 don't usually suggest going into something you cannot do, but sometimes you gotta jump in and land on your feet.

People get so scared to try things.

It's important to take leaps of faith.

I think I've gotten to the point in my life where I have to do everything that I'm scared of because you're not going to learn anything if you don't, so you just have to dive in the deep end and see if you can swim.

As I began to take risks, leaving my very comfortable and secure job and taking this first leap into fashion, every subsequent risk became easier to take because I began to see the kind of opportunity and excitement that risk-taking offered.

The ultimate risk is not taking a risk.

being afraid to take chances is scarier than actually doing things that challenge you.

You can become a winner only if you are willing to walk over the edge.