Maurice Herzog Quotes

I am nowhere near my limit. I just want to see if there are such things as limits. I want to go and find out.

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

I've always been a guy who likes to stretch my limits - to find out if I have any, really.

Each of us has much more hidden inside us than we have had a chance to explore. Unless we create an environment that enables us to discover the limits of our potential, we will never know what we have inside of us.

There are no limits to either time or distance, except as man himself may make them. I have but to touch the wind to know these things.

Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of.

You have to step over the boundaries sometimes just to find out where theyare.

Once we get out into a kind of an open world, we really do learn about ourselves and for me it's a lesson in discovering yourself, discovering your inner resources and then literally, in the movie, finding your voice.

where the world ends is where you must begin

I have been to the world's end and back and now I know what I would put in my bottom drawer .I would put my sisters.

Discovery is the journey; insight is the destination.

Those who follow the part of themselves which is great are great men; those who follow the part which is little are little men.

The world is so much larger than I thought. I thought we went along paths--but it seems there are no paths. The going itself is the path.

Every human being has inside them something more important than him or herself - his or her Gift.

So few people know what they're capable of.

I have no wisdom, no skills, and no faith but I received strength, it tears the world apart. I shall break, a heavy wave, against its shores and a young wave will cover my trace.

The progress of life shows a man the stuff of which he is made.

If we don't know ourselves, our essence, where our true power comes from, we will believe our power comes from collecting victories, trophies, money, or recognition. And these are all fine, but it's not ultimately what life is about. When we think it is, we really waste our greatest possibilities.

I did get knocked down flat in front of the whole world, and I rose. I didn't run away - I rose right where I'd been knocked down. And then that's how you get to know yourself. You say, hmm, I can get up!

I think that ordinary people who are placed in extraordinary circumstances find themselves pushed beyond their limits, and learn new truths about themselves.

We can redream this world and make the dream come real. Human beings are gods hidden from themselves.

The trails of the world be countless, and most of the trails be tried; You tread on the heels of the many, till you come where the ways divide;And one lies safe in the sunlight, and the other is dreary and wan,But you look aslant at the Lone Trail, and the Lone Trail lures you on.

Many things that come into the world are not looked into. The individual says 'My crowd doesn't run that way.' I say, don't run with crowds.