Robert M. Hutchins Quotes

We're at the top of the cliff and we can either fall off the edge or keep climbing.

She must find a boat and sail in it. No guarantee of shore. Only a conviction that what she wanted could exist, if she dared to find it.

The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her trust in miracles for safety.

The war correspondent has his stake - his life - in his own hands, and he can put it on this horse or that horse, or he can put it back in his pocket at the very last minute.

Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway.

Explorers have to be ready to die lost.

No retreat. No retreat. They must conquer or die who’ve no retreat.

I like to take chances.

The first quality of courage is the willingness to launch with no guarantees. The second quality of courage is the ability to endure when there is no success in sight.

It is better to go in the dark when the road must pass a lion and there is no other road.

It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line.

I'm scared of failure all the time. But not scared enough to stop trying.

Fear not, nor be dismayed at the appearance that is darkness, at the disguise that is evil, at the empty cloak that is death, for you have picked these for your challenges. They are stones on which you choose to whet the keen edge of your spirit.

Die trying" is the proudest human thing.

Life is a free fall parachute jump. Pray all the way down and hope for a safe landing.

You need to have the courage to fail.

You will come to a place where the streets are not marked. Some windows are lighted. but mostly they're darked. But mostly they're darked. A place you could sprain both your elbow and chin! Do you dare to stay out? Do you dare to go in? How much can you lose? How much can you win?

You never know if you can actually do something against all odds until you actually do it.

The world has no room for cowards. We must all be ready somehow to toil, to suffer, to die.

A hero is someone who simply got too frightened to use his good sense and run away, then somehow lived through it all.

We must not lose our faculty to dare, particularly in dark days.

The place where failure happens is also the place where courage lives.

I will walk where failures fear to walk.

The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire - the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale.

Adventures are only interesting once you've lived to see the end of them. Before that, they are nothing but fear, and being too cold or too hot or too wet or too hungry, and getting hurt.