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Quotes
about, concerning, or, in some way helpful to, learning to skydive.
A good skydiving instructor is not someone to lean on but someone who makes leaning unnecessary. -- Bill Purdin
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar. -- Raymond Lindquist
Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival. W. Edwards Deming
The higher we soar the smaller we look to those who cannot fly. -- Frederich Nietzsche
Live in the sunshine, drink the wild air… -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
...and once you have tasted flight, you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been and there you long to return. -- Leonardo de Vinci
The sky is God's gift to you...what you do with it is your gift to God. -- Bill Purdin
Normal People Scare Me. (Bumper Sticker)
At 13.000 feet nothing else matters. (Bumper Sticker)
Only you can save your life. -- Anonymous
Life sucks, and then you fly. -- Bill Purdin
Plain and simple, skydiving is all about controlled terror, and I love it.
-- Lewis B. Sanborn (D-1)
If you spend more time talking about what you used to do, or what can't do anymore than what you can do or what you're dreaming of doing ... then you've reached that point in life where skydiving is now an absolute necessity. -- Bill Purdin
Minds are like parachutes -- they only function when open. -- Thomas Dewar
Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them. -- Suzanne Necker
Never knock on Death's door: Ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!
-- Matt Frewer
Dare to be yourself. -- Andre Gide
It is a sadness of growing older that some of us lose our ardent appreciation of what is new and different and difficult. -- Elizabeth Aston
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There has never been a perfect skydive and there never will be. -- Bill Purdin
Never grow a wishbone, where your backbone ought to be. -- Clementine Paddleford
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
-- Henry David Thoreau
A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger. -- Euripides
Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story. -- John Barth
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success
when they gave up. -- Thomas A. Edison
Courage is being scared to death -- but saddling up anyway. -- John Wayne
Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. -- Dale Carnegie
Those of us who refuse to risk and grow get swallowed up by life. -- Patty Hansen
The winds easily erode the soft and mutable. -- Bill Purdin
We must travel in the direction of our fear. -- John Berryman
To one who is afraid, everything rustles. -- Sophocles
The opposite of bravery is not cowardice, but conformity. -- Dr. Robert Anthony
If you play it safe in life, you've decided you don't want to grow anymore.
-- Shirley Hufstedler
It is never too late to become what you might have been. -- George Eliot
With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity. -- Kesgavan Nair
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. -- Seneca
Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you. -- Maori proverb
It's hard to beat a person who never gives up. -- Babe Ruth
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail? -- Robert Schuller
You cannot cross the sea by staring at the water. -- Rabindranath Tagore, Nobel Prize winner
Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what. -- Harper Lee
Out of the strain of the doing ... into the peace of the done.
-- Julia Louise Maltilda Woodruff
The smile of God is victory. -- John Greenleaf Whittier
We are all faced with great opportunities... brilliantly disguised as impossible situations. -- Anonymous
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still. -- Chinese Proverb
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