Emile Hirsch Quotes

It might be scary because you're taking a risk, but at the end of the day you can say you tried.

Do one thing every day that scares you.

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'

Everything tells me that I am about to make a wrong decision, but making mistakes is just part of life. What does the world want of me? Does it want me to take no risks, to go back to where I came from because I didn't have the courage to say "yes" to life?

A life lesson for me is, how do you muster the courage to take on a new risk? Whether it's starting up a business or taking on a new project or expedition. I think the risks that we take are all relative to the risk-taker.

People who are scared don't live life.

I think it's no secret that I've tried to take chances in my career and also in my life, and I believe to not live in fear.

I'm always looking for a new thing that really terrifies me that I think I can't do it and accomplish that.

I don't want to be scared. I want to keep taking risks, keep working hard.

Living in Chicago, you have got to not be afraid about failing at something.

In my past, it looked like I could get into trouble in Russia - but I was not afraid then, and I'm not afraid now. Fear paralyses you and doesn't let you go forward.

The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire.

If you're afraid to fail, then you're probably going to fail.

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

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

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.

One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.

Unwillingness to risk failure is always there, but it gets harder when you feel you have more to lose.

I think I'm less afraid of failure than some others.

Traveling anywhere in the world involves some risk. You could always opt to spend your life cowering under your bed.

I don't believe in fear - I live my life without regrets.

Courage is on display every day, and only the courageous wring the most out of life.

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Nothing seemed as scary as waking up at 40 and realizing that I had not lived a very courageous life.