Yo-Yo Ma Quotes

Sometimes all you need is a big leap of faith.

It's important to take leaps of faith.

If there's one thing I've learned in the last few months, it's that sometimes you just have to close your eyes and jump.

When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take - choose the bolder.

Moving out to L.A. for me was a leap of faith. I was very secure in my dinner theater world; I loved it, and I was just like, 'I think there's something else out there for me and I just have to go for it.'

The only risk is not taking the risk. You've got to take that step.

Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.

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.

Sometimes, if you aren't sure about something, you just have to jump off the bridge and grow your wings on the way down.

Hope is a risk that must be run.

It's only when we have nothing else to hold onto that we're willing to try something very audacious and scary.

I'd much rather try and fail than talk about trying.

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

I don't think you ever really know what all you're doing, so you have to act on faith.

I haven't tried to buffer myself. I like rolling the dice.

It was a big decision to leave the system because many people said I would fail.

Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.

Never stop because you are afraid - you are never so likely to be wrong.

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

We will not know unless we begin.

The thing is most people are afraid to step out, to take a chance beyond their established identity.

You have to face things, have faith in what you do and go for it. Think, 'What's the worst that could happen?'

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

When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.

Now I ask you to make your sacrifice. Take a gamble. I took the plunge and I'm glad of it.