Echoes

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

A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

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

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

The world will hardly admit of an excuse for a man leaving a coast unexplored he has once discovered.

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

Fortune favors the brave.

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.

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

Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it is possible for man to go.

Audacity succeeds as often as it fails; in life it has an even chance.

It isn't all over; everything has not been invented; the human adventure is just beginning.

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

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

I had ambition not only to go farther than anyone had done before, but as far as it was possible for man to go.

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

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

You may never know what results come of your actions. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.

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.

I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution.

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

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.

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.

Take a step forward, lads. It will be easier that way.