Trailblazing Quotes

The way of the pioneer is always rough.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

It is the swimmer who first leaps into the frozen stream who is cut sharpest by the ice; those who follow him find it broken, and the last find it gone. It is the men or women who first tread down the path which the bulk of humanity will ultimately follow, who must find themselves at last in solitudes where the silence is deadly.

Never follow anyone else's path, unless you're in the woods and you're lost.

The pioneers get all the arrows.

I always try to do something nobody else has done.

I belong to the breed of first-generation entrepreneurs who have basically created our enterprises with very frugal resources.

I don't camp; I don't hike. I hate bugs, and I'm phobic of snakes.

In a society that glorifies the pioneers, it's easy to think that an endeavor is only worth pursuing if you can be the first to pursue it.

Follow the masters! But why should one follow them? The only reason they are masters is that they didn't follow anybody!

It is the fate of every great achievement to be pounced upon by pedants and imitators who drain it of life and turn it into an orthodoxy which stifles all stirrings of originality.

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.

Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby. No hitchhiking. And if you want to strike out in any new direction — you go alone. With a machete in your hand and the fear of God in your heart.

Leaders are the ones who have the courage to go first, to put themselves at personal risk to open a path for others to follow.

Walking is easy ... but it requires faith to find the right path.

The man with a new idea is a crank until his idea succeeds.

I'm paving the road for other women and men who know they're destined for greatness, but they don't believe it yet.

It is not easy to be a pioneer - but oh, it is fascinating! I would not trade one moment, even the worst moment, for all the riches in the world.

There's no-one in particular that we look up to, because we strive to be something that's never gone before.

A path is made by walking on it.

You have to be different, great or first.

There's no map for you to follow and take your journey. You are Lewis and Clark. You are the mapmaker.

There is never a crowd on the leading edge.

It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.