The best Quotes by Fridtjof Nansen

The best Quotes by Fridtjof Nansen

Fridtjof Wedel-Jarlsberg Nansen (10 October 1861 - 13 May 1930) was a Norwegian polymath and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. He gained prominence at various points in his life as an explorer, scientist, diplomat and humanitarian.

I demolish my bridges behind me - then there is no choice but forward.

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Progress Motivation Brücken

It is better to go skiing and think of God, than go to church and think of sport.

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Ich gehe langsam, aber ich gehe nie zurück.

Abraham Lincoln

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Without progress there will be stagnation and decay. There again, progress for progress's sake must be discouraged, for our tried and tested traditions often require no tinkering. A balance, then, between old and new, between permanence and change, between tradition and innovation.

Dolores Umbridge in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

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We keep moving forward, opening new doors... because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Walt Disney

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Progress Curiosity

In a world that's changing so quickly, you're guaranteed to fail if you don't take any risks.

Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook CEO)

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Progress Change Risk Business

I have always been fascinated with those who try to look over the horizon and see things that are coming at us.

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It is probably true quite generally that in the history of human thinking the most fruitful developments frequently take place at those points where two different lines of thought meet.

Werner Heisenberg

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Progress Thinking

For a bunch of hairless apes, we've actually managed to invent some pretty incredible things.

Ernest Cline in Ready Player One

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It's in our Nature to want to rise above our limits. Think about it. We were cold, so we harnessed fire. We were weak, so we invented tools. Every time we met an obstacle, we used creativity and ingenuity to overcome it. The cycle is inevitable... but will the outcome always be good? I guess that will depend on how we approach it.

Adam Jensen in Deus Ex - Human Revolution

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Progress Technology

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do - you have to keep moving forward.

Martin Luther King

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Progress Self-Confidence Motivation Positive Quotes

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.

Thomas J. Watson

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Progress Success Business

It's a wonderful world. You can't go backwards. You're always moving forward. It's the wonderful part about life. And that's terrific.

Harvey Fierstein

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Anything is possible if you got enough nerve.

Ginny Weasley in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

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Courage Motivation

To me, the very definition of the word "broken" suggests that something can be fixed.

Elijah Mikaelson in The Originals - Season 1 Episode 8

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Breakup Beginning Motivation

Sometimes the right path is not the easiest one.

Grandmother Willow in Pocahontas

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Work Motivation

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

Albert Einstein

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Motivation Borders

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

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Change Motivation Minutes

There is no such thing as bad ideas. Just poorly executed awesome ideas.

Damon Salvatore in The Vampire Diaries

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Ideas Motivation

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Vincent van Gogh

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Courage Risk Motivation

If you give it your all, there's nothing to blame yourself for.

Dirk Nowitzki

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The difference between the novice and the master is that the master has failed more times than the novice has tried.

Koro-Sensei in Assassination Classroom

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Teachers Failures & Mistakes Motivation

Sometimes you can do everything right and things will still go wrong. The key is to never stop doing right.

Angie Thomas in The Hate U Give

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A dream is only a dream.. until you decide to make it real.

Harry Styles

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Dreaming Motivation

It is not good to cross the bridge before you get to it.

I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground.

T. D. Jakes

In times of crisis the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers.

T’Challa in Black Panther

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Brücken Crisis & Catastrophes

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

Isaac Newton

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Human Rights Freedom Brücken

When God understand that only the best go skiing, he created football for the rest.

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When I'm in the starting gate, it's just me and the hill.

Mikaela Shiffrin

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It can take a lifetime to discover skiing, but only an instant to fall in love with it.

In Canada, there's two seasons: 6 months of winter and 6 months where skiing sucks.

When hell freezes over, I will ski there too.

If skiing was easy, it would be called snowboarding.

Many people attach skis to their feet. Few attach them to their soul.

The worst day skiing is still better than the best day at work.

I did not fall - I'm checking the snow conditions!

Skiing Snowboarding

Without them, we are just some village somewhere in the mountains of Tyrol. But with them, we are Kitzbühel, the Aspen of the Alps.

Kitz - Season 1 Episode 1

I have been skiing since I was in school, but I'm not great. I am never going to break an Olympic record, I just want to go down the hills, on red or blue runs, but not... black.

Alexander McQueen

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

But I don't understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody. It's pretty boring stuff, it's sordid but it's boring and I don't understand why it keeps going.

Donald Trump - July 2025

The Epstein Files

There are two kinds of big companies in the United States. There are those who've been hacked by the Chinese, and those who don't know they've been hacked by the Chinese.

James Comey

I believe that Americans should be deeply skeptical of government power. You cannot trust people in power. The founders knew that. That's why they divided power among three branches, to set interest against interest.

James Comey

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