Roz Savage famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Despite what I had acchieved, I don't for a moment think I am any braver or better than anyone else.Â This is how I attempt to explain what gives me the stregnth to do what I do; when that thunderbolt of an idea first hit me and inspired me to row across oceans, it filled me with a sense of purpose so strong that it overcame my fears.Â Even when boredom, frustration, fatigue or despair threatened to overwhelm me, it was that powerful sense of purpose that kept me going.
-- Roz Savage

#Strong #Powerful #Ocean
Be mindful of the link between present action and desired future outcome. Ask yourself: if I repeat todayâ€™s actions 365 times, will I be where I want to be in a year?
-- Roz Savage

#Years #Links #Want
I don't own designer clothes, or a sports car, or a huge house, but I am seeing the world, experiencing amazing things, and I have become an environmental campaigner.
-- Roz Savage

#Sports #Clothes #Car
The bigger the challenge, the bigger the sense of accomplishment when you get to the end of it.
-- Roz Savage

#Accomplishment #Challenges #Bigger
A lot of people feel trapped by circumstance, by the expectations of others or the perception that they need a lot of money. They would like to have a different direction in their lives, but they're held back by fear or desires that are incompatible with that freedom.
-- Roz Savage

#Expectations #People #Perception
I just used to have a really normal life, working in an office.
-- Roz Savage

#Office #Normal #Used
I'm not claiming to be anything out of the ordinary. I am not especially big or strong or brave or intrepid.
-- Roz Savage

#Strong #Brave #Ordinary
Ocean rowing is very much what you make it. Rowing technique is pretty irrelevant on the ocean. It's the psychology that's important.
-- Roz Savage

#Ocean #Psychology #Important
My advice is don't keep asking yourself if you can do something. Just get out there and do it. You can really surprise yourself.
-- Roz Savage

#Advice #Asking #Surprise
Fall down nine times, get up ten.
-- Roz Savage

#Fall #Nine #Falling Down
It's amazing how resourceful you can become when you're in the middle of the ocean and there's only one way to get to the other side.
-- Roz Savage

#Ocean #Way #Sides
A few years ago I wrote two versions of my obituary, the one I wanted and the one I was heading for. They were very different. I realized I needed to make some big changes if I was going to look back and be proud of my life. I am making those changes, and now I have a life worth living.
-- Roz Savage

#Years #Two #Proud
Compared with the awesome might and eternal power of the ocean, no human being can fail to be reminded of their own insignificance.
-- Roz Savage

#Ocean #Might #Failing
The Milky Way swooped diagonally across the heavens, reminding me of my utter insignificance, and at the same time my complete interconnection with everything. I was just a tiny speck of consciousness, and yet I was consciousness itself.
-- Roz Savage

#Heaven #Way #Tiny
When you stand at the bottom of the mountain and look up at the mountaintop, the path looks hard and stony, and the top is obscured by clouds. But when you reach the top and you look down, you realize that there are a thousand paths that could have brought you to that place.
-- Roz Savage

#Clouds #Mountain #Looks
So let's raise the tone of the debate. Too often at the moment we look like schoolchildren squabbling over a toy - our most precious toy, the Earth. And the danger is that as we pull in opposite directions in our global tug of war, the Earth will end up broken - or at least unable to sustain human life. That is the worst case scenario - or maybe, from the Earth's point of view, the best.
-- Roz Savage

#War #Views #Opposites
I have learned to accept that, in the present moment at least, things are exactly as they are meant to be, and although I cannot control the future any more than I could control the wind and the weather, I can manage it and influence it in a positive way.
-- Roz Savage

#Attitude #Wind #Weather
I am a rolling stone, never in one place for very long.
-- Roz Savage

#Long #Stones #Rolling

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