James Cook famous quotes

04-08-2025

Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.
-- James Cook

#Inspirational #Life #Motivational
The universality of tattooing is a curious subject for speculation.
-- James Cook

#Tattoo #Curious #Speculation
I could not help concluding this man had the most supreme pleasure while he was driven so fast and so smoothly by the sea.
-- James Cook

#Men #Sea #Surfing
From what I have said of the natives of New Holland they may appear to some to be the most wretched people upon earth but in reality they are far happier than we Europeans, being wholly unacquainted not only with the superfluous, but
-- James Cook

#Reality #People #May
Gifted women musicians and composers rarely received their due.
-- James Cook

#Musician #Composer #Gifted
To enslave a people, give them money they didn't earn.
-- James Cook

#People #Giving
What is still more to our shame as civilized Christians, we debauch their morals already too prone to vice, and we introduce among them wants and perhaps disease which they never before knew and which serve only to disturb that happy tranquility which they and their forefathers enjoyed. If anyone denies the truth of this assertion, let him tell me what the natives of the whole extent of America have gained by the commerce they have had with Europeans.
-- James Cook

#Christian #America #History
Remember, the greater the opportunity, the fewer are those who see it.
-- James Cook

#Opportunity #Remember
Whatever you do without confidence will be done badly.
-- James Cook

#Done
Struggle is the architect of the soul.
-- James Cook

#Struggle #Soul #Architect
We can never right the wrongs of the past.
-- James Cook

#Past
No matter how great your wisdom, you can still make a fool of yourself.
-- James Cook

#Matter #Fool #Stills
Better to have something to say than to have to say something.
-- James Cook
Never underestimate the incompetence of government.
-- James Cook

#Government #Underestimate #Incompetence
Independent thinkers are usually geniuses or idiots and at times it's hard to tell which.
-- James Cook

#Independent #Genius #Idiot
A free ride is life's most difficult journey.
-- James Cook

#Journey #Difficult #Difficult Journeys
Seeds sewn in adversity bear the greatest fruit.
-- James Cook

#Adversity #Fruit #Bears
The decline and fall of a civilization is barely noticed by most of its citizens.
-- James Cook

#Fall #Civilization #Citizens
Whenever you have something nice someone will try to ruin it.
-- James Cook

#Nice #Trying #Ruins
There is no help from without, only from within.
-- James Cook

#Helping
Inflation makes the wealthiest people richer and the masses poorer.
-- James Cook

#People #Mass #Inflation
Nothing in life is guaranteed, including government guarantees.
-- James Cook

#Government #Guarantees #Life Is
Once you're in heaven it makes no difference when you got there.
-- James Cook

#Differences #Heaven
It's easier to have faith in yourself if you have faith in God.
-- James Cook

#Have Faith #Faith In God #Easier
Everybody lives an epic.
-- James Cook

#Epic
Socialism is the triumph of people's prejudices over their reason.
-- James Cook

#People #Triumph #Prejudice
Self interest feeds more people than self sacrifice.
-- James Cook

#Sacrifice #Self #People
When your mind tries to verify a preconceived notion you can miss the obvious.
-- James Cook

#Missing #Mind #Trying
A thinker reverses roles and sees the perspectives of others.
-- James Cook

#Perspective #Roles #Thinker

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