Filter & Style X

Sort by

Quote length

Sentiment

Change font

Change background

En/profession/112/explorer Quotes (3189)

Page 2 of 133
Filter & Style
Image
Mountains have the power to call us into their realms and there, left forever, are our friends whose great souls were longing for the heights. Do not forget the mountaineers who have not returned from the summits.
Anatoli Boukreev
Image
Mountains are not stadiums where I satisfy my ambition to achieve, they are the cathedrals where I practice my religion.
Anatoli Boukreev
Image
I cannot say to be glad or not glad to be on Everest. It is my life. I have opportunity to be here, so I am here.
Anatoli Boukreev
Image
I travel to Jakarta, I see what an important country it is. I've been working with them for a year.
Anatoli Boukreev
Image
The human race cannot go forward without liberty. If this be correct, then all people everywhere should strive for liberty. If they achieve liberty, they will get a chance to pursue happiness and perhaps will be able to develop toward the ultimate goal of creation.
Richard E. Byrd
Image
I got bored and then joined the British SAS. It was five very exciting years of my life, and then I'd always had this passion for swimming, so started swimming around the world, in some of the most exotic and distant and dangerous locations.
Lewis Pugh
Image
To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
Theodore Roosevelt
Image
Climbing is not a battle with the elements, nor against the law of gravity. It's a battle against oneself.
Walter Bonatti
Image
The mountains have rules. they are harsh rules, but they are there, and if you keep to them you are safe. A mountain is not like men. A mountain is sincere. The weapons to conquer it exist inside you, inside your soul.
Walter Bonatti
Image
I've always been incapable of accepting fate, and I've always refused to die, and that has helped me to survive.
Walter Bonatti
Image
I grew up on survival shows and they were always just so...anoraky.
Bear Grylls
Image
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
Image
I loathe cheese, it makes me ill.
Colin Baker
Image
No man is esteemed for colorful garments except by fools and women.
Walter Raleigh
Image
So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lieth.
Walter Raleigh
Image
Romance is a love affair in other than domestic surroundings.
Walter Raleigh
Image
Passions are liken'd best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb So, when affection yields discourse, it seems The bottom is but shallow whence they come. They that are rich in words, in words discover
Walter Raleigh
Image
Give my scallop-shell of quiet, My staff of faith to walk upon, My scrip of joy, immortal diet, My bottle of salvation, My gown of glory, hope's true gage And thus I'll take my pilgrimage.
Walter Raleigh
Image
It is the nature of men having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to run headlong into the other extreme, forgetting that virtue doth always consist in the mean.
Walter Raleigh
Image
Whoever commands the sea, commands the trade whosoever commands the trade of the world commands the riches of the world, and consequently the world itself.
Walter Raleigh
Image
There is nothing more becoming any wise man, than to make choice of friends, for by them thou shalt be judged what thou art: let them therefore be wise and virtuous, and none of those that follow thee for gain but make election rather of thy betters, than thy inferiors.
Walter Raleigh
Image
Historians desiring to write the actions of men, ought to set down the simple truth, and not say anything for love or hatred also to choose such an opportunity for writing as it may be lawful to think what they will, and write what they think, which is a rare happiness of the time.
Walter Raleigh
Image
Men endure the losses that befall them by mere casualty with more patience than the damages they sustain by injustice.
Walter Raleigh
Image
Talking much is a sign of vanity, for the one who is lavish with words is cheap in deeds.
Walter Raleigh
Previous
Next