Richard E. Byrd famous quotes

03-23-2025

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

#Inspirational #Strength #Men
Progress grows out of motion.
-- Richard E. Byrd

#Progress #Grows
A static hero is a public liability. Progress grows out of motion.
-- Richard E. Byrd

#Hero #Progress #Static
There are deep wells of strength that are never used.
-- Richard E. Byrd

#Used #Wells
Give wind and tide a chance to change.
-- Richard E. Byrd

#Wind #Giving #Tides
Singing is such an excellent thing, that I wish all people would sing.
-- Richard E. Byrd

#Music #People #Singing
I am learning that a man can live profoundly without masses of things.
-- Richard E. Byrd

#Men #Simplicity #Mass
A man doesn't begin to attain wisdom until he recognizes he is no longer indispensable.
-- Richard E. Byrd

#Wisdom #Men #Indispensable
No woman has ever stepped on Little America and we have found it to be the most silent and peaceful place in the world.
-- Richard E. Byrd

#America #Peaceful #World
I am hopeful that Antarctica in its symbolic robe of white will shine forth as a continent of peace as nations working together there in the cause of science set an example of international cooperation.
-- Richard E. Byrd

#White #Shining #Hopeful
What I had not counted on was discovering how closely a man could come to dying and still not die, or want to die. That, too, was mine; and it also is to the good. For that experience resolved proportions and relationships for me as nothing else could have done; and it is surprising, approaching the final enlightenment, how little one really has to know or feel sure about.
-- Richard E. Byrd

#Men #Dying #Done
What people think about you is not supposed to matter much, so long as you yourself know where the truth lies; but I have found out, as have others who move in and out of newspaper headlines, that on occasion it can matter a good deal. For once you enter the world of headlines you learn there is not one truth but two: the one which you know from the facts; and the one which the public, or at any rate a highly imaginative part of the public, acquires by osmosis.
-- Richard E. Byrd

#Lying #Moving #Thinking
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.
-- Richard E. Byrd

#Stars #Race #Tree
A discordant mind, black with confusion and despair, would finish me off as thoroughly as the cold.
-- Richard E. Byrd

#Confusion #Mind #Black
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.
-- Richard E. Byrd

#Trying #Done #Might
Below -60Â° cold will find the last microscopic touch of oil in an instrument and stop it dead. If there is the slightest breeze, you can hear your breath freeze as it floats away, making a sound like that of Chinese firecrackers. As does the morning dew, rime coats every exposed object. And if you work too hard and breathe too deeply, your lungs will sometimes feel as if they were on fire.
-- Richard E. Byrd

#Morning #Oil #Fire
Patience is what you need in the Antarctic. Wait-Give wind and tide a chance to change.
-- Richard E. Byrd

#Change #Science #Wind
Christianity has not failed. It is simply that nations have failed to try it. There would be no war in a God-directed world.
-- Richard E. Byrd

#War #Trying #World
Half of the confusion in the world comes from not knowing how little we need. I live more simply now, and with more peace.
-- Richard E. Byrd

#Letting Go #Knowing #Confusion
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 family. Anything and everything else he creates are insubstantial; they are ships given over to the mercy of the winds and tides of prejudice. but the family is an everlasting anchorage, a quiet harbor where a man's ships can be left to swing to the moorings of pride and loyalty.
-- Richard E. Byrd

#Loyalty #Pride #Men
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 Ross Ice Barrier. The temperature fell as low as 72 degrees below zero. One could actually hear one's breath freeze.
-- Richard E. Byrd

#Zero #Winter #Ice
We men who serve science serve only a reflection in a mirror.
-- Richard E. Byrd

#Science #Men #Reflection
A hand from Washington will be stretched out and placed upon every manâ€™s business; the eye of the federal inspector will be in every manâ€™s counting houseâ€¦ The law will of necessity have Indus[tr]ial features, it will provide penalties, it will create complicated machinery. Under it, men will be hauled into courts distant from their homes. Heavy fines imposed by distant and unfamiliar tribunals will constantly menace the taxpayer. An army of federal inspectors, spies, and detectives will descend upon the state.
-- Richard E. Byrd

#Eye #Home #Army
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

#Race #Goal #People

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