Phil Knight Quotes

There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.

If you don't leap, you'll never know what it's like to fly.

It takes far less courage to cling to the past than it does to face the future".

Sure, this will probably end up being another in a long line of emotionally crippling misadventures...but let's try to have some fun along the way.

It takes courage to step out of the line marked 'security' into the line marked 'risk.'

Don't be afraid to take that leap into the unknown.

Discovery requires courage and acceptance that we are not in control, and that the future is uncertain.

All growth is a leap in the dark.

I've always had a feeling that any time you can experiment, you ought to do it. Because you never know what will happen.

I like to take a shot with things. I like to take risks. I'm attracted to things that are different than the average run-of-the-mill stuff.

When I left Queen's my future seemed to stretch out before me like a straight road. I thought I could see along it for many a milestone. Now there is a bend in it. I don't know what lies around the bend, but I'm going to believe that the best does.

It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey.

I'm delighted that the future is unsure. That's the way it should be.

I am going to seek a grand perhaps.

There was no way to know that certainty would one day become a luxury, too.

It is always the first and last steps that are the hardest to take. We walk away and try not to turn back, or we stand just outside the gates, terrified to find what's waiting for us now that we've returned. In between, we stumble blindly from one place and life to the next. We try to do the best we can. There are moments like this, however, when we are neither coming nor going, and all we have to do is sit and look back on the life we have made.

The uncertainty of our future is nothing more than a fog of breath on a windowpane.

The past is made out of facts...I guess the future is just hope.

Its a toss-up when you decide to leave the beaten track. Many are called, few are chosen.

You know, the smallest thing can change a life. In the blink of an eye, something happens by chance - and when you least expect it - since we’re on a course that you could have never planned, into a future you never imagined. Where will it take you? That’s the journey of our lives: our search for the light. But sometimes, finding the light means you must past through the deepest darkness.

As the past has ceased to throw its light upon the future, the mind of man wanders in obscurity.

If you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.

Courage doesn't know what's around the corner, but goes around it anyway.