Leap Quotes

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

Success, Goal, Dark

Leap, and the net will appear.
John Burroughs

This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
Neil Armstrong

Small, Step, Mankind

All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.
Henry Miller

Experience, Dark, Growth

Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there's got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when you're at the edge, you have to go forward or backward; if you go forward, you have to jump together.
Yo-Yo Ma

Faith, Forward, Together

The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm; resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking.
Deepak Chopra

Death, Thinking, Old

I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.
Les Brown

Through, Ignore, Dream

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
Cynthia Heimel

Fool, Yourself, Doubt

Creativity makes a leap, then looks to see where it is.
Mason Cooley

Creativity, Makes, Looks

Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
Samuel Butler

Before, Reap, Sow

It was such a leap in my career when 'Truman Show' came along. It's always been a long process for me insofar as recognition goes, but that's OK because you appreciate it when it comes.
Jim Carrey

Long, Career, Show

There are many talented people who haven't fulfilled their dreams because they over thought it, or they were too cautious, and were unwilling to make the leap of faith.
James Cameron

Dreams, Faith, Thought

Never try to leap from a standstill.
Mason Cooley

Try, Standstill

Doing is a quantum leap from imagining.
Barbara Sher

Quantum, Imagining

Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.
David Herbert Lawrence

Life, Knowledge, Taken

I'm sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken a great leap backwards to the familiar territory of command and control.
Margaret J. Wheatley

Leadership, Great, Sad

He came by a leap to the goal of purpose, not by the toilsome steps of reason. On the instant his headlong spirit declared his purpose: this was the one being for him in all the world: at this altar he would light a lamp of devotion, and keep it burning forever.
Gilbert Parker

Him, Goal, Light

That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.
Neil Armstrong

Small, Step, Mankind

And as he spoke of understanding, I looked up and saw the rainbow leap with flames of many colors over me.
Black Elk

Rainbow, Colors, Flames

The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.
David Lloyd George

Two, Try, Dangerous

It's best to leap into something you know you love. You might change your mind later, but that is the privilege of youth.
Charles Kuralt

Love, Change, Best

The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
Agnes de Mille

May, Dark, After

A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.
Otto von Bismarck

God, Through, Wait

Being on a book tour is like being on the seesaw when you're a little kid. The excitement is in having someone to play with, and in rising up in the air, but then you're at the mercy of those holding you down, and if it's your older brother, or Paul Wolfowitz, they leap up, so that you crash down and get hurt.
Anne Lamott

Hurt, Someone, Book

My coming to faith did not start with a leap but rather a series of staggers from what seemed like one safe place to another. Like lily pads, round and green, these places summoned and then held me up while I grew. Each prepared me for the next leaf on which I would land, and in this way I moved across the swamp of doubt and fear.
Anne Lamott

Faith, Fear, Doubt

Anybody can leap off a building.
Daniel Craig

Off, Anybody, Building

I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
Thomas Hobbes

Great, Dark, Last

Look twice before you leap.
Charlotte Bronte

If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.
Holly Near

Wisdom, Forward, Mistakes

Cheese is milk's leap towards immortality.
Clifton Fadiman

Cheese, Milk, Towards

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