Fridtjof Nansen's Quotes

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

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

The difficult is what takes a little time; the impossible is what takes a little longer.

Never stop because you are afraid - you are never so likely to be wrong.

Alas! Alas! Life is full of disappointments; as one reaches one ridge there is always another and a higher one beyond which blocks the view.

Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention.

Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say, but in the lives they lead.

Just as men must give up economic control when their wives share the responsibility for the family's financial well-being, women must give up exclusive parental control when their husbands assume more responsibility for child care.

The greatest impediments to changes in our traditional roles seem to lie not in the visible world of conscious intent, but in the murky realm of the unconscious mind.

This part of being a man, changing the way we parent, happens only when we want it to. It changes because we are determined for it to change; and the motive for changing often comes out of wanting to be the kind of parent we didn't have.