Sailor Quotes

I wanted freedom, open air and adventure. I found it on the sea.

You do not ask a tame seagull why it needs to disappear from time to time toward the open sea. It goes, that's all.

I am a citizen of the most beautiful nation on earth, a nation whose laws are harsh yet simple, a nation that never cheats, which is immense and without borders, where life is lived in the present. In this limitless nation, this nation of wind, light, and peace, there is no other ruler besides the sea.

At sea, I learned how little a person needs, not how much.

It's not a sin to get knocked down; it's a sin to stay down

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

You don't have to be someone special to achieve something amazing.

You've just got to have a dream, believe in it and work hard.

My real log is written in the sea and sky;

the sails talking with the rain and the stars amid the sounds of the sea, the silences full of secret things between my boat and me, like the times I spent as a child listening to the forest talk.

It's out there at sea that you are really yourself.

My early book learning came to me as naturally as the seasons in … the little town in which I grew up. … Quite early I began to find a special charm in an unpeopled world … of lava rock and sagebrush desert. … I was often more purely happy at such times than I think I have ever been since.

The only way to get a good crew is to marry one.

TAKE A DEEP BREATH EVERY MORNING; SAY THANK YOU FOR YOUR HEALTH. THE ALTERNATIVE IS UNBELIEVABLY TOUGH.

I hate storms, but calms undermine my spirits.

When you sail on a boat you take with you the minimum of resources.

You don't waste anything. You don't leave the light on; you don't leave a computer screen on... on land we take what we want

For me... it was always about the challenge of making this voyage... It was always a calculated risk, but life is a risk.

A sailor's joys are as simple as a child's.

The questions that used to bother me at times, do not weigh anything before the immensity of a wake so close to the sky and filled with the wind of the sea

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

I’m an ordinary girl who believed in her dream.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

It seems like people my age are over-protected today, even to the point where a lot of parents refuse to put their kids in the position to make important decisions, to aspire to great things, because they don't want to put them in a position to fail.

When you start you're trying to achieve staying alive and getting home.

If you can do both of those, then you stand a chance of breaking the record.

I am twelve thousand miles wiser, twelve thousand miles more resilient, and I have twelve thousand miles more faith in God.

Every man needs to find a peak, a mountain top or a remote island of his own choosing that he reaches under his own power alone in his own good time.

I was so thankful that my parents trusted me enough and had enough faith in my abilities to let me follow my passion and try to do something great, even if I might fail.

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.

On June 10, the worst storm in the series swept across the middle of the Indian Ocean and Wild Eyes was directly in its path.

There's a plane flying over me and I'm looking forward to being able to relax and not worry about the weather or boat speed.

Wild Eyes was built for speed and I was flying down walls of water twenty and thirty feet high.

I wanted to break the record, of course, and become the youngest person to sail around the world solo and unassisted.

The seriousness of my situation started to sink in, and again I fought panic.

I pushed it down, but it was harder this time, like my insides were an open can of shaken soda and I was trying to keep it from bubbling up out of the top.

As soon as I get on my boat, something inside me changes. Then I really feel what living is.

Over a period of 11 months I was constantly afraid that Youth Care would lock me up. It was all a frightening and traumatic experience. So often these terrible memories come to me. I can't ignore them.

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.

If a big wave came at the wrong moment, it would sweep me off into forty-eight-degree water, where I might last twenty minutes. Drowning quickly might be better.

But none of that kept me from picturing what a tsunami might look like if it did rise up and roar toward my little boat like some watery blue version of the Great Wall of China.

Let Beth Leonard inspire you to sail around the world, explore the high latitudes, or discover your own capacity for adventure. Each nugget in this 'dream becomes reality' series of revelations is worth a thousand pictures.

Sailboat racing becomes a game of chance only when you are not prepared

Just as a fisherman cannot catch fish unless his line is in the water, a wildlife photographer cannot shoot great wildlife images unless he or she is out there with camera in hand and the knowledge of what to do then the 'magnificent moment' occurs.

All the ingenuity, all the high-tech gear, all the jury-rigging sometimes the sea would rip it all away until there was only you, the Creator, and His mercy.

If you can't tie good knots, tie plenty of them

My message to the nation right know is, tomorrow will be a good day

The sun will shine on you again and the cloud will go away.

They deserve so much more than we can possibly give them.

For all those finding it difficult: the sun will shine on you again and the clouds will go away

Tomorrow will be a good day

When I circumnavigated the globe the outcome didn't really matter, it was about a goal I'd set myself, but sustainability is part of all our lives

Sometimes I would come back from a run, and my artificial leg would have a puddle of blood from my stump. I wouldn't go to sick bay. In that year, if I had gone to sick bay, they would have written me up. I didn't go to sick bay. I'd go somewhere and hide and soak my leg in a bucket of hot water with salt in it--an old remedy. Then I'd get up the next morning and run.

You are only as big as the dreams you dare to live.

You can't change conditions - just the way you deal with them.