Arundhati Roy Quotes

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

Take Courage! Whatever you decide to do, it will probably be the wrong thing.

Inaction and indecision in the present is because of fear of consequences of the future.

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

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

He who hesitates, meditates horizontally

After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.

Fear is going to be a player in your life, but you get to decide how much. You can spend your whole life imagining ghosts, worrying about the pathway to the future, but all it will ever be is what's happening here, the decisions in that we make in this moment, which are based in either love or fear.

Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true.

Doubt may be a poor encouragement to do anything, but it is a bad reason for doing nothing.

Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.

If you are afraid to take a chance, take one anyway. What you don't do can create the same regrets as the mistakes you make.

The truth is, I was afraid the day I walked into Stanford. And I was afraid the day I walked out.

You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that.

If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin.

I have never known what to tell anybody. Except that it is better to do something than nothing, even if the cost is great.

I have a fear of failure.

Being frightened of things is worse than the things themselves.

Indecision is the seedling of fear.

of all the follies that we can commit, the greatest is to hesitate.

Without courage we will simply accumulate a collection of good ideas and regrets.

The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.

Not to decide is to decide not to, nowhere in the bible does it promise tomorrow.

Most fears in life rarely come to fruition.

There's always fear. Always fear. Anyone who says they are not afraid is lying to you. Because this can all change tomorrow.