“Twenty years from now you will be more dissappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
-Mark Twain
“You can’t try to do things, you must simply do them.”
~Ray Bradbury
“There
is no philosophy which will help man to succeed when he is always
doubting his ability to do so, and thus attracting failure. No
matter how hard you work for success, if your thought is saturated
with the fear of failure, it will kill your effort, neutralize your
endeavors and make success impossible.”
~Charles Baudouin
“Only those who attempt the absurd...will achieve the impossible. I think...I think it's in my basement... Let me go upstairs and check.”
~M.C. Escher
“You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try.”
~Beverly Sills
“Of all the words of tounge or pen, the saddest are these…it might have been.”
~Whittier
“I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”
~Picasso
"There is no man living who isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can do."
~Henry Ford
The great oak was once a little nut who held its ground.
“I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark burn out in a brilliant blaze than it be stifled by dry-rot, I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.”
~Jack London
“All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.”
~Orison Swett Marden
“If everything is under control then you are going too slow.”
~Mario Andretti
“Attempt the impossible.”
~Bette Davis
“The man who makes no mistakes usually does not make anything.”
~E.J. Phelps
"Even a fool knows he can't touch the stars, but it doesn't stop a wise man from trying."
~Harry Andersen
“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure , the process is its own reward”
~Robyn Davidson
“There is nothing of which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.”
~Soren Kirkegaard
“If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go into business, because we’d be cynical. Well, that’s nonsense. You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on your way down.”
~Ray Bradbury
“Whatever you can do or dream, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.”
~Goethe
“One of the few things I know…is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good…give it, give it all, give it now.”
~Annie Dillard
“Anything I’ve ever done that ultimately was worthwile…initially scared me to death.”
~Betty Bender
“The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.”
~Richard Sheridan
“It’s the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.
It’s the dream afraid of waking that never takes a chance.
It’s the one who won’t be taken that cannot seem to give
And the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live.”
~Bette Midler, “The Rose”
“Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
~W. J. Bryant
“Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary: impossible.”
~H. Robert Schuller
“Most people never run far enough on their first wind to discover they’ve got a second. Give your dreams all you’ve got and you’ll be amazed.”
~W. James
“There are no limitations in what you can do except the limitations of your own mind.”
~Darwin P. Kingsley
“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.”
~Julia Cameron
"I have learned to use the word ‘impossible’ with the greatest caution."
~Werner von Braun
“Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.”
~T.S. Eliot
“To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else."
~Bernadette Devlin
“For I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight and the mountains.”
~Thoreau, “Walden”
“The distance is nothing, it’s only the first step that’s difficult.”
~Marquis du Deffand
“One good thing about being young is that you are not experienced enough to know you cannot possibly do to things you are doing.”
~Gene Brown
“Act as if it were impossible to fail.”
~Dorothea Broude
“The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture little way past them into the impossible.”
~Arthur C. Clarke
"It's amazing what one can do when one doesn't know what one can't do."
~Jim Davis
"Things are only impossible until they're not."
~Patrick Stewart
“All serious daring starts from within.”
~Eudora Welty
“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”
~Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself, and that no heart ever suffered when it goes in pursuit of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second’s encounter with God and with eternity.”
~Paulo Coelho