Robert A. Heinlein Quotes

The decision to go to Milan, as everyone knows, made me mature as a man. It was a big chance and perhaps too big for the man I was at the time.

If you are really challenged, and if you are willing to take the plunge, very often some of the path opens up in front of you.

Without risk you can't experience life. There have to be risks, physically and mentally, taken by everyone.

The idea of taking command of your life and doing something that you're not sure if you can do and you're not really sure if you should do it, I think is pretty timeless. We all face those doubts often, if not constantly.

Men, not children or servants, tempered and taught to the end; Cleansed of servile panic, slow to dread or despise, Humble because of knowledge, mighty by sacrifice.

It's the lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believe in myself. He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.

It takes a Real man to fill my shoes.

Any time an opportunity scares you that much, you should seriously consider saying yes.

You can't lead without taking risk.

It is not size or age that separates children from adults. It is responsibility.

Leadership is the willingness to put oneself at risk.

After all, we are not children. It's time we planned our life.

What I learned at that moment on the subway 30 years ago, staring at my blank passport, was this: If you have an impulse to do something, and it's not totally irresponsible, why not do it? It might just be the journey you've always needed.

I hope that you will learn to take responsibility for your decisions. Don't take counsel of your fears.

I always say, you know, if I sit here and close my eyes and say, 'When did I learn the most in my life, in my career?' It'll always be when I close them and everything I think of is when I took a risk. It's when I think I learned the most.

I wanted something different; I wanted something that challenged me and that pushed me further. Then this idea of climbing Mount Everest came to my mind. It stuck in my head for days. Someone told me I couldn't do it, and that really annoyed me.

When you have a kid, you have to be more mature.

A witness, in the sense that I am using the word, is a man whose life and faith are so completely one that when the challenge comes to step out and testify for his faith, he does so, disregarding all risks, accepting all consequences.

I'm just a kid - I've got a lot of stuff to do yet.

When I look back, I can say that the summer when I was 19 was a formative time for me. But at the time I just thought I was making tofu every night for dinner and going to work.

In 'Henry V,' the story of the assumption of true and responsible leadership by Henry I think is hard-won. He has to lose friends; he has to risk his life.

Whenever there's a role that scares me, I get panicked and nervous. I know that greatness might come because I'm going to get out of my own element and comfort zone.

Such decisions will be far reaching and difficult. But you never lacked courage in the past. Your courage is now needed for the future.

I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.

My parents dreaded the fact that I was changing my life to do this, but I just kept doing it.