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Acrobat Inspirational Quotes (29)

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Every walk that I do, there's obstacles in the way. There's always somebody or something that comes across negative, but I live for that sort of thing.
Nik Wallenda
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The practical answer is, no it would be totally impossible for young or foreign people to get access to roof of a building that stands in the heart of a giant city and to put a cable across.
Philippe Petit
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I feel like I'm on cloud nine right now.
Nik Wallenda
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If you take suede leather and put it on a piece of steel, and put moisture on it, it actually sticks.
Nik Wallenda
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Improvisation is empowering because it welcomes the unknown. And since what's impossible is always unknown, it allows me to believe I can cheat the impossible.
Philippe Petit
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If I look at the performance of another friend Sting, whenever I hear him take over a stage and share his art with millions, it's very inspiring to me. So I have a lot in my life, a lot of friends who inspire me and I'm sure it goes the other way around, or so that I inspire them.
Philippe Petit
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Life should be lived on the edge of life. You have to exercise rebellion: to refuse to tape yourself to rules, to refuse your own success, to refuse to repeat yourself, to see every day, every year, every idea as a true challenge - and then you are going to live your life on a tightrope.
Philippe Petit
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I focus, I invent, I transform, I challenge, I attempt, I observe, I perform.
Philippe Petit
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A lot of praying helped me a lot.
Nik Wallenda
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One thing that was passed on from generation to generation in my family, over seven generations in 200 years, was never give up. That's the way we live.
Nik Wallenda
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I am very attracted by the mysterious landscape of Easter Island. Not only because it is a piece of land that is further away from another, but also because of the beautiful statues of Moai that are there. To do a beautiful walk there, I would have to involve the Moai, and the Rapa Nui people who live on the island.
Philippe Petit
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I have permits to be the first person in the world to walk across the Grand Canyon so that's a process we'll start working on. I'd say within three to five years I'll accomplish that as well.
Nik Wallenda
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When I perform outside, the major problem that could arise is strong wind.I spend months preparing for the types of wind that occur in different locations.
Philippe Petit
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What I'm doing is a natural wonder. If not, there'd be 150 people behind me on the wire.
Nik Wallenda
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The mist was so challenging and the winds hit me, definitely more than I expected. It was definitely those winds, you can't re-enact them, you can't recreate them. Then my forearms started to tense up and you feel like running.
Nik Wallenda
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There's weight on me to raise the bar, to carry on that legacy. But that's what drives me. Making sure that no one ever forgets who the Wallendas are.
Nik Wallenda
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I'm one of those people who always tries to overachieve. I want to do more. I want to do bigger things.
Nik Wallenda
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Limits exist only in the souls of those who do not dream.
Philippe Petit
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I've trained all my life not to be distracted by distractions.
Nik Wallenda
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On one side, the mass of a mountain. A life I know. On the other, the universe of the clouds, so full of unknown that it seems empty to us. Too much space.
Philippe Petit
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I am the poet of the high wire - I never do stunts I do theatrical performances.
Philippe Petit
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Passion is the model of all my actions.
Philippe Petit
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I know it's impossible. But I know I'll do it!
Philippe Petit
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Life should be lived on the edge of life.
Philippe Petit
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