Vijay Sethupathi Quotes

Living with fear stops us taking risks, and if you don't go out on the branch, you're never going to get the best fruit.

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.

Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don't choose what they want; they choose what they think is safe.

If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.

I've been scared and I've liked not hanging on to stuff where I know that I'm in my comfort zone.

People who are scared don't live life.

Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.

You have to be careful not to let your fear stop you doing things. It's very exciting to test yourself.

He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.

I've been trying to figure out for at least the last 10 years how to force myself into something more risky.

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.

The fears you do not face become your walls. Most people in business, and in their personal lives, design everything so they can avoid doing what makes them feel uncomfortable. Yet any good business person knows we are not only paid to work, but also we are paid to be scared.

Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.

You have to try things you're really afraid of, even if you pee yourself a little bit.

Once you lose that fear, good stuff can happen because you're not in your head about whether it will suck. Once you don't care and accept that it probably will suck, then it probably won't suck.

I tend to go toward things that make me afraid.

The work I like to do is the work I'm most afraid of.

I used to be really afraid and anxious of taking on too much, and the older I'm getting, the more fearless I'm becoming. Life is so much more relaxed when you're like that.

People get so scared to try things.

It's important to take risks and challenge yourself. That's why I went into acting, really.

I just say go for it and be yourself, even if you're scared or nervous, because you'll never know what happens if you don't try.

If you don't go towards the thing you fear, you won't be able to say you lived.

I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me.

During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.

I like to do something I fear.