Seth Godin Quotes

There's no such thing as a cautious creative.

I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure, you learned, as I did in art school, to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow off your head.

One must be brave if one is to take the wheel.

Courage is nothing more than taking one step more than you think you can.

The brave man is not the one without fear but the one who does what he must despite being afraid. To succeed, you must be willing to risk total failure; you must learn this.

Sometimes the only way is jumping; hope you’re not afraid of heights.

To me fearless isn't not having fears, it's not that you're not afraid of anything. I think that being fearless is having a lot of fears, but you jump anyway.

Do you want to understand how to swim, or do you want to jump in and start swimming? Only people who are afraid of the water want to understand it. Other people jump in and get wet.

Bunkum and tummyrot! You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that. Would Columbus have discovered America if he'd said 'What if I sink on the way over? What if I meet pirates? What if I never come back?' He wouldn't even have started.

An hour's terror is better than a lifetime of timidity.

To live greatly, you have to risk greatly.

We must not be timid from a fear of committing faults: the greatest fault of all is to deprive oneself of experience.

Courage means feeling all those hard human emotions - all that uncertainty and anxiety - and getting the job done anyway.

Courage comes from acting courageously on a day-to-day basis.

You don't have to be brilliant at everything. You just have to have the courage to put yourself in the line of fire.

All men have fears, but the brave put down their fears and go forward, sometimes to death, but always to victory.

As I like to say, take the shot, even if your knees are shaking.

Failure is an option, fear is not.

The only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet.

The leader who refuses to move until the fear is gone will never move. Consequently, he will never lead.

Courage is more exhilarating than fear, and in the long run, it is easier.

If you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.

Courage doesn't know what's around the corner, but goes around it anyway.

The way to defeat fear: decide on a course of conduct and follow it. Keep so busy and work so hard that you forget about being afraid.

I'm just saying, take courage. That and pretty much that alone is never the incorrect thing to do.