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Sailor Inspirational Quotes (663)

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What will it profit a man if he gains his cause and silences his adversary if at the same time he loses that humble, tender frame of spirit in which the Lord delights, and to which the promise of his presence is made?
John Newton
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These blithering women who thought they could do a man's work. Why the hell couldn't they stay at home and mind their pots and pans and stick to their frocks and gossip and leave men's work to the men.
Ian Fleming
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We are off! The courses and topsails are set: the coral-hung anchor swings from the bow: and together, the three royals are given to the breeze, that follows us out to sea like the baying of a hound.
Herman Melville
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contempt is as frequently produced at first sight as love.
Herman Melville
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Start first and increase your lead.
Buddy Melges
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The best advice I can give you: Look unto Jesus, beholding his beauty in the written word.
John Newton
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The American, who up to the present day, has evinced, in Literature, the largest brain with the largest heart, that man is Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Herman Melville
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We are literally eating the oceans alive and there are simply not enough fish to continue to feed an ever expanding population of humanity.
Paul Watson
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There's something ever egotistical in mountain-tops and towers, and all other grand and lofty things.
Herman Melville
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Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the colors, but where exactly does the one first blendingly enter into the other? So with sanity and insanity.
Herman Melville
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Mountain climbing was my original sport ... and I've never tired from the satisfaction of getting to the top of a mountain.
Steve Fossett
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As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
Herman Melville
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...after a certain point, material objects have a tendency to crowd out the emotional needs they are meant to support.
Graham Hill
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In a city a man may feel second to none. But alone in the immensity of the universe, among all the creatures that preceded man and built up the human species, even a most fervent atheist will wonder if Darwin found the visible road but not the invisible mechanism.
Thor Heyerdahl
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It is true that I must run a great risk no gallant action was ever accomplished without danger.
John Paul Jones
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Though the island of Great Britain exhibits but a small spot upon the map of the globe, it makes a splendid appearance in the history of mankind, and for a long space has been signally under the protection of God and a seat of peace, liberty and truth.
John Newton
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Love is like a pineapple, sweet and undefinable.
Piet Pieterszoon Hein
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To be called one thing, is oftentimes to be another.
Herman Melville
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Say what some poets will, Nature is not so much her own ever-sweet interpreter, as the mere supplier of that cunning alphabet, whereby selecting and combining as he pleases, each man reads his own peculiar lesson according to his own peculiar mind and mood.
Herman Melville
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Poor people make a very poor business of it when they try to seem rich.
Herman Melville
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...arranging the journey was so difficult. Getting home again was much easier.
Thor Heyerdahl
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When you feel how depressingly slowly you climb, it's well to remember that Things Take Time.
Piet Pieterszoon Hein
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Shun advice at any price - that's what I call good advice.
Piet Pieterszoon Hein
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Well lose more species of plants and animals between 2000 and 2065 than weve lost in the last 65 million years. If we dont find answers to these problems, were gonna be victims of this extinction event that were at fault for.
Paul Watson
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