Favorite Quotes

Some of these quotes you might have heard if you were a particpant or student on one of our courses or expeditions

 
- "The single thing which makes any man happiest is the realization that he has worked up to the limitations of his ability, his capacity." - Neil Armstrong
 
- "I have not failed, I have just found 10,000 ways that do not work." -Thomas Edison
 
- "A ship, like a human being, moves best when it is slightly athwart the wind, when it has to keep its sails tight and attend its course. Ships, like men, do poorly when the wind is directly behind, pushing them sloppily on their way, so that no care is required in steering or in the management of sails; the wind seems favorable, for it is blows in the direction one is heading, but actually it is distructive, for it induces a relaxation in tension and skill. What is needed is a wind slightly opposed to the ship, for then tension can be maintained, and juices can flow and ideas can germinate, for ships, like men, respond to challenge." - James A Michener
 
- "I never think of the future, it comes soon enough." - Albert Einstein
 
- "Turn to face the light, and the shadows will fall behind you." -
 
- "The more you know, the less you need." - Yvon Chouinard
 
- "Now I know the secret of making the best persons; it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth." - Walt Whitman
 
- "We shall not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time." - T.S. Elliot
 
- " What is life: it is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the winter time; it is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset." - Crowfoot
 
- "We have become the tools of our tools." - Henry David Thoreau
 
- "Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing at all." - Helen Keller
 
- "I am I plus my surroundings, and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself." - Jose Ortega Gasset
 
- "If you are facing the right direction, all you have to do is keep walking." - Buddhist Proverb
 
- "Take care of your character, and your reputation will take care of itself."
 
- "The question is not what you look at, but what you see."
 
- "To be truly challenging, a voyage, like a life, must rest on a firm foundation of financial unrest. Only then will you know what the sea is all about. But in the worship of security we fling our lives beneath the wheel of routine. The years thunder by. The dreams of youth grow dim where they lie, on the shelves of patience." - Sterling Hayden
 
- "Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal." - Henry Ford
 
- " Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny."
 
- "First seek to understand, then to be understood."
 
- "If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking." - George S. Patton Jr.
 
- "All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on." - Henry Ellis
 
- "There exists within everyone a grand passion, an outlandish thirst for adventure, a desire to live boldly and vividly through the journey of life." - Kurt Hahn
 
- " If you're going through hell, keep going."
 
- " I am part of all that I have met." - Alfred Lord Tennyson
 
- " Treat the earth well. It was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children." - Kenyan Proverb
 
- "A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner."
 
- "The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is to high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it." - Michelangelo
 
- "You can not dream yourself into a character, you must hammer and forge yourself one." - James Froude
 
- Fortitudine Vincimus- Through Endurance We Conquer
 
- "Stare at the sea until it stares back at you." - a friend of my friend, Noah Sabich
 
- "Cool man, all is good here. I stopped chasing and found peace." - my friend William Cumby