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Sailor Inspirational Quotes (662)

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You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world.... We are not a nation, so much as a world.
Herman Melville
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I think you always have regrets.
Clint Walker
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Unfortunately most ways of making big money take a long time. By the time one has made the money one is too old to enjoy it.
Ian Fleming
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The shadows of things are greater than themselves and the more exaggerated the shadow, the more unlike the substance.
Herman Melville
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Earthworms are far more valuable than people.
Paul Watson
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The real strength of the environmental movement is the tens of thousands, even millions of individuals around the world who are really making a difference and they are doing it out of passion.
Paul Watson
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All the 20th we were endeavouring to get into Adventure Bay but were prevented by variable winds.
William Bligh
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The ship was masted according to the proportion of the navy but on my application the masts were shortened, as I thought them too much for her, considering the nature of the voyage.
William Bligh
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Beef also was difficult to be procured and exceedingly poor the price nearly sixpence farthing per pound.
William Bligh
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Experts have their expert fun ex cathedra telling one just how nothing can be done.
Piet Pieterszoon Hein
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Book! You lie there the fact is, you books must know your places. You'll do to give us the bare words and facts, but we come in to supply the thoughts.
Herman Melville
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Time is of the essence and I don't have much essence left.
Graham Hill
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A thing may be incredible and still be true sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
Herman Melville
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Unless we stop the degradation of our oceans, marine ecological systems will begin collapsing and when enough of them fail, the oceans will die. And if the oceans die, then civilization collapses and we all die
Paul Watson
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Your Highnesses have an Other World here, by which our holy faith can be so greatly advanced and from which such great wealth can be drawn.
Christopher Columbus
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I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.
Herman Melville
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But as in landlessness alone resides the highest truth, shoreless, indefinite as God - so better is it to perish in that howling infinite, than be ingloriously dashed upon the lee, even if that were safety! For worm-like, then, oh! who would craven crawl to land!
Herman Melville
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But oh! shipmates! on the starboard hand of every woe, there is a sure delight and higher the top of that delight, than the bottom of the woe is deep.
Herman Melville
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You can't change conditions - just the way you deal with them.
Jessica Watson
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Whenever you're called on to make up your mind, and you're hampered by not having any, the best way to solve the dilemma, you'll find, is simply by spinning a penny. No not so that chance shall decide the affair while you're passively standing there moping but the moment the penny is up in the air, you suddenly know what you're hoping
Piet Pieterszoon Hein
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The only thing worse than feeling that you are going to die is the realization that you probably won't.
Linda Greenlaw
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For every minute, the future is becoming the past.
Thor Heyerdahl
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He who has gold makes and accomplishes whatever he wishes in the world and finally uses it to send souls to paradise.
Christopher Columbus
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The things that happen on the sea take you beyond yourself, beyond human capability.
Abby Sunderland
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