Burn The Boats Quotes

#1. Burn the boats as you enter the island and you will take the island.

Napoleon Hill

#2. up to the belly. When the attack starts I will let myself fall into the water, with my face as deep in the mud as I can keep it without suffocating. I must pretend to be dead. Suddenly

Erich Maria Remarque

#3. When your army has crossed the border, you should burn your boats and bridges, in order to make it clear to everybody that you have no hankering after home.

Sun Tzu

#4. Let there be as little materialism as possible, with the maximum of spirituality.

Swami Vivekananda

#5. If you wanna take the fucking island burn your fucking boats; and you will take the island 'cause people when they're gonna either die or succeed, tend to succeed.

Tony Robbins

#6. Enlightenment has nothing to do with being spiritual. Being spiritual is just an idea - it's another ring of perception.

Frederick Lenz

#7. After landing his invasion forces on the shores of some country, the sixteenth-century Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes would immediately burn his own boats. He was sending his army a message: "We can't turn back. Either we succeed here or we die here." Excuses were not an option.

Lou Holtz

#8. I think that as long as you have one decent parent ... maybe you should consider cutting the poison out of your life.

Brenna Aubrey

#9. One should, when overwhelmed by the shadow of a giant, move aside and see if the colossal shadow isn't merely that of a pygmy blocking out the sun.

Novalis

#10. Only a life of prayer and meditation will render a vessel ready for the Master's use.

George Muller

#11. If you want to take the island, then burn your boats. With absolute commitment come the insights that create real victory.

Tony Robbins

#12. I think, with my cartoons, the parent-like figures are kind of my own archeypes of parents, and they're taken a little bit from my parents and other people's parents, and parents I have read about, and parents I dreamed about, and parents that I made up.

Roz Chast