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Sailor Inspirational Quotes (663)

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The things that happen on the sea take you beyond yourself, beyond human capability.
Abby Sunderland
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The swells were amazing! As big as three-story apartment buildings!
Abby Sunderland
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One day that same year, I told my dad that someday, I would sail around the world alone.
Abby Sunderland
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I will definitely attempt to sail around the world again. In fact, I can't wait for the chance to try again.
Abby Sunderland
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I will never forget the feeling of walking into my home, a place that while drifting helpless in the middle of the Indian Ocean I wondered if I would ever see again.
Abby Sunderland
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I knew that even if I was able to call for help, I was in a place so remote that it wasn't likely there would be anyone who could help me. And even if there were, it could take weeks.
Abby Sunderland
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The terrifying physics of going up-mast in heavy seas are inescapable.
Abby Sunderland
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Slowly, my brain let me in on the fact that I had just come this close to dying.
Abby Sunderland
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The winds were blowing from west to east, pushing Abby's boat toward the rocks as Abby struggled with the autopilots below. If Wild Eyes reached those islands, she wouldn't run aground, keel in the sand. She would be smashed into pieces.
Abby Sunderland
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Being at sea is like watching the whole world in high-definition.
Abby Sunderland
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There are a number of places on marine charts where even the most weathered sailors point and say, Right there, nothing can go wrong. Everything has to go right. One place is the turbulent passage south of Cape Horn. Another is the dead center of the Indian Ocean.
Abby Sunderland
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That great America on the other side of the sphere, Australia.
Herman Melville
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Youth is the time when hearts are large.
Herman Melville
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Life has more imagination than We carry in our dreams.
Christopher Columbus
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The man's (a heathen south sea islander) a human being, just as I am he has just as much reason to fear me, as I have to be afraid of him. Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
Herman Melville
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All Profound things, and emotions of things are preceded and attended by Silence.
Herman Melville
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Adventure Bay is a convenient and safe place for any number of ships to take in wood and water during the summer months: but in the winter, when the southerly winds are strong, the surf, on all parts of the shore, makes the landing exceedingly troublesome.
William Bligh
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It isn't that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better.
Francis Drake
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There is a massive economic opportunity out there to be taken without waiting for government legislation.
Ellen MacArthur
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The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass.
Herman Melville
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Aye, aye! and I'll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Norway Maelstrom, and round perdition's flames before I give him up.
Herman Melville
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Blisters are a painful experience, but if you get enough blisters in the same place, they will eventually produce a callus. That is what we call maturity.
Harry Herbert Miller
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And yet self-knowledge is thought by some not so easy. Who knows, my dear sir, but for a time you may have taken yourself for somebody else? Stranger things have happened.
Herman Melville
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Respecting your opponent is the key to winning any bout. Hold your enemy in contempt and you may miss the strategy behind his moves
David Hackworth
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