The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world.

Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.

Fashion has become so whatever. I don’t think there are any stones left to unturn.

It’s a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced than here on earth. It’s an interesting place to be. I recommend it.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.

Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.

You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.

Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last – but eat you he will.

If you try to fight the course, it will beat you.

If you deserve it, go get it.

The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.

I came to China to follow my star and to steep myself in the raw regions of the universe.

Better to fight for something than live for nothing.

Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I’ve been called a great adventurer.

Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway.

I don’t expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

If you’re embarking around the world in a hot-air balloon, don’t forget the toilet paper.

I tend not to really think about what other people say. I’d rather just try and focus on what I’m doing, try and win basically.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

If you don’t trust the pilot, don’t go.

Kites rise highest against the wind – not with it.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

By stopping flying, you don’t only reduce your own carbon footprint but also that sends a signal to other people around you that the climate crisis is a real thing and that helps push a political movement.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don’t back down.

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

What I do is I write mainly about very personal and rather lonely feelings, and I explore them in a different way each time. You know, what I do is not terribly intellectual. I’m a pop singer for Christ’s sake. As a person, I’m fairly uncomplicated.

When exploring London, you will come across lots of excitement by chance, so try to take everything in rather than just rushing around to all of the major tourist haunts.

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm… in the real world all rests on perseverance.

I got to Africa. I got the opportunity to go and learn, not about any animal, but chimpanzees. I was living in my dream world, the forest in Gombe National Park in Tanzania. It was Tanganyika when I began.

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

The United States and our allies are determined: we refuse to live in the shadow of this ultimate danger.

Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.

Even though the risks of death are higher driving than flying, many people would rather drive simply because they feel they have more control driving. The facts are that only a few hundred people die a year flying, and 44,000 are killed a year driving.

For novelists or musicians, if they really want to create something, they need to go downstairs and find a passage to get into the second basement. What I want to do is go down there, but still stay sane.

Working hard is very important. You’re not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.

With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.

It was like I was in a tunnel. Not only the tunnel under the hotel but the whole circuit was a tunnel. I was just going and going, more and more and more and more. I was way over the limit but still able to find even more.

What is once well done is done forever.

There is nothing better than getting shot at and missed. It’s really great.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

You sort of start thinking anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn’t be done.

To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.

My honour was not yielded, but conquered merely.

It’s a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can’t stop playing the game the way you’ve always played it.

Sailed this day nineteen leagues, and determined to count less than the true number, that the crew might not be dismayed if the voyage should prove long.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‚I’m possible‘!

I don’t see how people are comfortable with seeing other people be great. You can be happy for anybody, but what is your excuse to not want to be great? These people are great because they just say, ‚I’ma do that,‘ and they do it. That’s it. There’s no scientifical process.

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.