Echoes

It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

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

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

Fortune favors the brave.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half of the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." … You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Forget the years, forget distinctions. Leap into the boundless and make it your home!

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in that grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

In prosecuting these discoveries, the dangers we are exposed to are obvious, but I rejoice that we are chosen to confront them.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

I believe it is in our nature to explore, to reach out into the unknown. The only true failure would be not to explore at all.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.

The purpose of life...is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

A man must shape himself to a new mark when the old one goes to ground.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

He who lives sees much. He who travels sees more.