explorer Quotes

I am willing to go anywhere, anywhere, anywhere -- so long as it's forward.

David Livingstone

• 135
• will

The difficult is what takes a little time; the impossible is what takes a little longer.

Fridtjof Nansen

• 101
• difficult

I did not tell half of what I saw, for I knew I would not be believed.

Marco Polo

• 36
• experience

I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks.

Daniel Boone

• 28
• Confusion

It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.

Edmund Hillary

• 21
• Difficulty

If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

• 19
• beings

Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have.

Davy Crockett

• 17
• Government

You don't have to be a hero to accomplish great things---to compete. You can just be an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.

Edmund Hillary

• 12
• motivational

Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.

Thor Heyerdahl

• 10
• ability

Getting through high school and college was one of my greatest achievements.

Ann Bancroft

• 10
• achievements

The dog lives for the day, the hour, even the moment.

Robert Falcon Scott

• 9
• dog

It takes generosity to discover the whole through others. If you realize you are only a violin, you can open yourself up to the world by playing your role in the concert.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

• 9
• concert

Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.

Christopher Columbus

• 9
• Journeys

I will go anywwhere as long as it is forward

David Livingstone

• 8
• travel

People protect what they love.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

• 8
• love

Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all.

Ernest Shackleton

• 8
• difficulties

What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

• 8
• science

Courage is action, not talk.

Jeff Rich

• 8
• action

All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Daniel Boone

• 8
• Happiness

I think we all strive to push ourselves, to overcome our struggles. And when we do, we get to know ourselves better.

Ann Bancroft

• 6
• think

I will place no value on anything I have or may possess except in relation to the kingdom of Christ.

David Livingstone

• 5
• Devotion

I will go anywhere, provided it be forward.

David Livingstone

• 5
• Determination

Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections.

Daniel Boone

• 4
• affections

In camp was found a book, the first of the kind I had ever seen, in which I was made a great hero, slaying Indians by the hundreds.

Kit Carson

• 4
• book

When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

• 4
• extraordinary

Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results.

Ernest Shackleton

• 4
• achieves

I do not think about being beautiful. What I devote most of my time to is being healthy.

Ann Bancroft

• 4
• beautiful

I wanted to be a teacher, but I was a lousy student, one of the slowest readers. It was a tremendous struggle. But I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.

Ann Bancroft

• 4
• teacher

Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth.

Walter Raleigh

• 4
• follow

Be always sure your are right, then go ahead.

Davy Crockett

• 4
• Right

Fear God and work hard.

David Livingstone

• 4
• Purpose

A sea setting us upon the ice has brought us close to danger.

Henry Hudson

• 3
• brought

Not until, years later, I found my true interest in life did I discover that I could master a subject, no matter how difficult, if it helped me in what I wanted to do.

Lincoln Ellsworth

• 3
• difficult

The longer we were in it, the smaller it seemed to get.

William Beebe

• 3
• seemed

I demolish my bridges behind me - then there is no choice but forward.

Fridtjof Nansen

• 3
• behind

We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

• 3
• cycle

Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go.

James Cook

• 3
• ambition

Since we humans have the better brain, isn't it our responsibility to protect our fellow creatures from, oddly enough, ourselves?

Joy Adamson

• 3
• brain

We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about - farming replacing hunting.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

• 3
• civilization

From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

• 3
• beneath

All that I am I owe to Jesus Christ, revealed to me in His divine Book.

David Livingstone

• 3
• Christianity

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Richard E. Byrd

• 3
• Change

It is notoriously true that the public mind is seriously agitated with apprehensions of negroes insurrections and that it is becoming more and more so.

Thomas L. Smith

• 2
• apprehensions

I came into the world at the right time.

Helge Ingstad

• 2
• came

In this eventful period the colony of New South Wales is already far advanced.

Charles Sturt

• 2
• advanced

They might in the future more than ever before engage in hunting beavers.

Samuel de Champlain

• 2
• beavers

A zeal for the defence of their country led these heroes to the scene of action, though with a few men to attack a powerful army of experienced warriors.

Daniel Boone

• 2
• action

Nothing escapes the vigilance of the New South Wales police; their reputation is known the world over.

Joshua Slocum

• 2
• escapes

We were the only pulsating creatures in a dead world of ice.

Frederick Albert Cook

• 2
• creatures

A British declaration be taken against Martinez for 'capturing and robbing us.

George Vancouver

• 2
• against