Richard E. Byrd Quotes

Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.

Give praise to others while they are here; they won't need it in the hereafter.

Progress grows out of motion.

I am learning that a man can live profoundly without masses of things.

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Half of the confusion in the world comes from not knowing how little we need.

A man doesn't begin to attain wisdom until he recognizes he is no longer indispensable.

A static hero is a public liability. Progress grows out of motion.

There are deep wells of strength that are never used.

A discordant mind, black with confusion and despair, would finish me off as thoroughly as the cold.

Patience is what you need in the Antarctic. Wait-Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Solitude is an excellent laboratory in which to observe the extent to which manners and habits are conditioned by others.

No woman has ever stepped on Little America - and we have found it to be the most silent and peaceful place in the world.

Christianity has not failed. It is simply that nations have failed to try it. There would be no war in a God-directed world.

The human race, my intuition tells me, is not outside the cosmic process and is not an accident. It is as much a part of the universe as the trees, the mountains, the aurora, and the stars.

We men who serve science serve only a reflection in a mirror.

If the expedition had failed, which it might well have done with all hope centered in just one plane, I should still be trying to pay back my obligations.

Few men during their lifetime comes anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.