Stephen Schwartz Quotes

Sometimes all you need is a big leap of faith.

Take one more deep breath, savor it, and plunge forward without thinking. Do not allow yourself hesitation. Do not allow yourself a moment of doubt. Follow your instincts and go where you never would have considered possible.

When the time comes to leap in faith whether you have your eyes open or closed or scream all the way down or not makes no practical difference.

How often has Hitler said to me: 'I know that my decision or action is correct. I cannot explain at the moment why, but I feel that it is right and the future will prove it so'.

There are some conditions where you have to trust your intuition.

Without risk, faith is an impossibility.

Be willing to trust your instincts, especially if you cannot find answers elsewhere.

I definitely try to live my life in a very fearless manner, but there are no other sports that you jump from a three-story building and land on your hands! Diving is a lot like life. You just have to trust in what you know and allow it to happen.

Sometimes you're not sure about a player. Sometimes you doubt. Sometimes you have to guess. Sometimes... you just know.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.

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.

The need for some venture of faith still remains; one must stake one's life upon something.

Leap, and the net will appear.

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 the way down.

That’s the lesson of politics. Go with your gut. You don’t know what is going to happen.

I must act now without knowing the results. Thus, I give my actions their only possible meaning for me.

To choose love and jump in not knowing, with a lot of unknowns, is a brave act.

We don't know the probabilities of future events. Still, you have to take action, and so you do it on gut feeling. That's the world we live in.

You either back your instincts or you hold off - and you're more likely to back your instincts if you're confident.

In the end, you have to just pull the trigger. Trust the car, trust the brakes, just go.

I kind of just trust what I do and do what I trust.

The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

When we leap, we must leap as though the net will appear. A leap in life, however big or small, is an act of commitment with the expectation of success.

How in the world could you ever imagine a life of faith that does not require risk? Faith and risk are inseparable.

Faith is like stepping off a cliff and expecting one of two outcomes - you will either land on solid ground or you will be taught to fly.