“For believe me! — the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment is: to live dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius! Send your ships into uncharted seas! Live at war with your peers and yourselves! Be robbers and conquerors as long as you cannot be rulers and possessors, you seekers of knowledge! Soon the age will be past when you could be content to live hidden in forests like shy deer! At long last the search for knowledge will reach out for its due: — it will want to rule and possess, and you with it!”
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”
“I don't know what's right or wrong, but I'm not going to let anyone stand in the way of me trying to figure it out.”
“If we don't stand for something, we'll fall for anything.”
“Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”
“The first step to getting anywhere is deciding you're no longer willing to stay where you are.”
“There are only two ways of life in the world: rotting and burning. Cowardly and greedy people choose the former; brave and selfless people choose the latter.”
“When the world says, 'Give up.' Hope whispers, 'Try it one more time.”
“When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways: either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength.”
“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”