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Navigator Inspirational Quotes (29)

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I resolved to abandon trade and to fix my aim on something more praiseworthy and stable whence it was that I made preparation for going to see part of the world and its wonders.
Amerigo Vespucci
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Every ship should have a cat.
Alan Villiers
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Only fools and passengers drink at sea.
Alan Villiers
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When people come together around common vision, they can accomplish great things. We need the instruments that pull our people together, not apart.
Nainoa Thompson
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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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Rethinking the future: It is a profound challenge, at the end of an era of cheap oil and materials to rethink and redesign how we produce and consume to reshape how we live and work, or even to imagine the jobs that will be needed for transition
Ellen MacArthur
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There is little man has made that approaches anything in nature, but a sailing ship does. There is not much man has made that calls to all the best in him, but a sailing ship does.
Alan Villiers
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The manner of their living is very barbarous, because they do not eat at fixed times, but as often as they please
Amerigo Vespucci
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Life on our planet is defined by the health of our ocean.
Nainoa Thompson
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That's the best way to cross the Atlantic.
Arthur Whitten Brown
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As I am from Hawaiʻi, the ocean is part of my culture and who I am. My ancestors were great ocean explorers.
Nainoa Thompson
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Some are born leaders, some achieve leadership, and some have leadership thrust upon them. Which of these are you, or would you rather not bother?
Maurice Flanagan
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Blue and green should never be seen together, but the person wearing this mix, will be of interest.
Jacques Cartier
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Wealth is also defined by family, connection to our ancestry, and our best vision of the future. All of these find their inner spirit, their constancy, and their strength in the values that shape our thinking and our actions.
Nainoa Thompson
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If the soil were as good as the harbours, it would be a blessing.
Jacques Cartier
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I directed the men in our barque to approach near the savages, and hold their arms in readiness to do their duty in case they notice any movement of these people against us.
Samuel de Champlain
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Those new regions [America] which we found and explored with the fleet . . . we may rightly call a New World . . . a continent more densely peopled and abounding in animals than our Europe or Asia or Africa and, in addition, a climate milder than in any other region known to us.
Amerigo Vespucci
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It's out there at sea that you are really yourself.
Vito Dumas
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The advice I give to all adventurers is to seek a place where they may sleep in safety.
Samuel de Champlain
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They might in the future more than ever before engage in hunting beavers.
Samuel de Champlain
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A sailor's joys are as simple as a child's.
Bernard Moitessier
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To be a navigator, you have to be fierce.
Mau Piailug
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The linear 'Take - Make - Dispose' system, which depletes natural resources and generates waste, is deeply flawed and can be productively replaced by a restorative model in which waste does not exist as such but is only food for the next cycle
Ellen MacArthur
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Oh well, I suppose lots of people will do it now.
Arthur Whitten Brown
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