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Leap Quotes

Lines about faith, risk, and the moment before you jump.

These quotes explore the leap as metaphor, from a family's leap of faith in a musician's career to history's most famous giant leap. For more on taking risks, see Courage quotes.

Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.

Quotes by Walter Benjamin

No one else in our family was a professional musician so this took an enormous leap of faith on their part.

Quotes by Tony Visconti

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

Quotes by Samuel Butler

Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.

Quotes by Samantha Power

Change Quotes

When His Holiness won the Nobel Peace Prize, there was a quantum leap. He is not seen as solely a Tibetan anymore; he belongs to the world.

Quotes by Richard Gere

Subjectivity ceases to exist only when the mutation-like leap is made from subjectivity to objectivity, from individual existence to universal existence.

Quotes by Piet Mondrian

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

Quotes by Neil Armstrong

Never try to leap from a standstill.

Quotes by Mason Cooley

The Swedish engineer who invented the zip fastener made a greater intellectual leap than many scientists do in a lifetime.

Quotes by Martin Rees

Courage Quotes

'Vert' is, like, straight to the top, like a vertical leap.

Quotes by Lil Uzi Vert

No one ever reached the worst of a vice at one leap.

Quotes by Juvenal

I really enjoy when I'm asked questions that leap from the physical world and the material world into our hearts.

Quotes by Jok Church

Leap, and the net will appear.

Quotes by John Burroughs

Everybody recognizes that if you can make very efficient electric motors, you can make a quantum leap forward.

Quotes by James Dyson

Emotion Quotes

After we finished filming 'Sinbad,' I went out to Los Angeles for meetings and was invited to a pre-Oscars party. I met Victoria Beckham, Kenneth Branagh, and Gary Oldman. That was quite a leap for me.

Quotes by Elliot Knight

Anybody can leap off a building.

Quotes by Daniel Craig

Andrew Lloyd Webber is one of those odd moth-like creatures who seem to combine extreme discomfort with the spotlight with an unstoppable compulsion to leap into it.

Quotes by Craig Brown

Cheese is milk's leap toward immortality.

Quotes by Clifton Fadiman

Look twice before you leap.

Quotes by Charlotte Bronte

Identity Quotes

Doing is a quantum leap from imagining.

Quotes by Barbara Sher

Frequently Asked Questions

What is this Leap quotes collection about?
It gathers quotes that use "leap" to describe moments of risk, faith, or transformation, ranging from a family supporting an unconventional career to the famous line about mankind's giant leap.
Why do people search for leap quotes?
People look for leap quotes when facing a big decision or change, or to caption a moment that feels like stepping into the unknown.
Is the famous moon landing quote included here?
Yes, the well-known line about "one giant leap for mankind" appears in this collection, alongside less famous but equally personal reflections on leaping.
Do any quotes describe a leap of faith in family or career?
Yes, one describes a family's enormous leap of faith in supporting a member who became a professional musician despite no one else in the family working in music.
Are quotations themselves compared to a kind of leap here?
In a sense. One quote compares quotations to wayside robbers who "leap out" and take away a reader's original conviction, a more literary use of the word than the others in this set.

A few entries also treat the leap as something gradual rather than sudden, noting that even a vice is rarely reached in one leap. Readers exploring personal growth may also enjoy Change quotes.