Havelock Ellis Quotes

The good parts are the people who don't make do. They're the interesting people. Lear doesn't make do.

If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.

Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.

Great hopes make great men.

Great men of action... never mind on occasion being ridiculous; in a sense it is part of their job, and at times they all are.

Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics.

Those who have accomplished great things in the world have been, as a rule, bold, aggressive, and self-confident. They dared to step out from the crowd and act in an original way. They were not afraid to be generals.

By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward

There's not enough people being daring and different. There are a lot of followers in hip-hop.

I feel like the fools who dream and who take risks are the ones who change the world.

It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation. He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. Failure is the true test of greatness.

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

Bring me men to match my mountains: Bring me men to match my plains: Men with empires in their purpose and new eras in their brains.

Stay hungry. Stay foolish. I've always wished that for myself.

My advice to female directors is not to wait until you feel like your ideas have been pre-certified or until you think you've gotten some approval for them. Then it's too late! Follow your gut. That's hard to do, but the only way to be original.

Better to be wrong than be boring.

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

You have to be a crazy guy and a little eccentric to be very successful.

I always try to be a trend setter. That's what I always tell young people when I'm giving them advice. To go with their heart and don't follow the trends.

Don't ever try and be like anybody else and don't be afraid to take risks.

I love Lady Gaga. She's not afraid to take risks and be herself.