Bernard Moitessier famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.

  • I know that people think I'm sexy and I am looked at as that. It is cool with me. It's wonderful to have sexy appeal. If you embrace it, it can be a very beautiful thing.

  • It's been a straight strip, I must tell you, I've enjoyed it all the way. If I'm saying things to make it sound like it's hard, hard work, it's not. It's beautiful work. It's fun work. It's everything you'd ever want to do.

  • Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.

  • The French believe that all errors are distant, someone else's fault. Americans believe that there is no distance, no difference, and therefore that there are no errors, that any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.

  • Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.

  • Happiness is attained, not through self-interest, but through unconditional fidelity in endless love of eternal light.

  • In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.

  • I am in awe of the things you've been put through and the fact you can still light up a room when you walk in. When I look at you I see life. I see joy. I see my future.

  • The purely righteous do not complain of the dark, but increase the light; they do not complain of evil, but increase justice; they do not complain of heresy, but increase faith; they do not complain of ignorance, but increase wisdom.