courageous leap Quotes

If there is a fear of falling, the only safety consists in deliberately jumping.

For some, it was easier to take the leap from the leafless tree and dance on nothing until dancing was done.

My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt.

Not a single bird makes its first leap from a tree without faith, and not a single animal in the jungle begins its day without faith. Faith is the flame that eliminates fear, and faith is the emperor of dreams.

Fear not. For fear itself is fed by fear, and all fears pass. Did no one tell you so? Come take my hand, my friend, and we will peer into this fear's abyss. And jump! And know.

At man's core there is a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that in general man cannot give in to fear, at the very least he postpones indefinitely the moment when he will have to confront himself with the object of his fear... when he will no longer have the assistance of reason as guaranteed by God, or when he will no longer have the assistance of God such as reason guaranteed. It is necessary to recoil, but it is necessary to leap, and perhaps one only recoils in order to leap better.

A single act of courage is often the tipping point for extraordinary change.

The single biggest act of bravery or madness anyone can do is the act of change.

Be willing to launch in faith, with no guarantees of success. This is the mark of personal greatness