Richard E. Byrd Quotes
- Half of the confusion in the world comes from not knowing how little we need. I live more simply now, and with more peace.
- Singing is such an excellent thing, that I wish all people would sing.
- I am learning that a man can live profoundly without masses of things.
- A man doesn't begin to attain wisdom until he recognizes he is no longer indispensable.
- Give wind and tide a chance to change.
- A hand from Washington will be stretched out and placed upon every man’s business; the eye of the federal inspector will be in every man’s…
- A static hero is a public liability. Progress grows out of motion.
- Progress grows out of motion.
- We men who serve science serve only a reflection in a mirror.
- In Winter, [the Antarctic] is perhaps the dreariest of places. Our base, Little America, lay in a bowl of ice, near the edge of the…
- At the end only two things really matter to a man, regardless of who he is; and they are the affection and understanding of his…
- There are deep wells of strength that are never used.
- Christianity has not failed. It is simply that nations have failed to try it. There would be no war in a God-directed world.
- Patience is what you need in the Antarctic. Wait-Give wind and tide a chance to change.
- Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.
- Few men during their lifetime comes anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.