Martin Dugard QUOTES

1 " To be a runner is to learn continual life lessons. "

― Martin Dugard , To Be a Runner: How Racing Up Mountains, Running with the Bulls, or Just Taking On a 5-K Makes You a Better Person (and the World a Better Place)

2 " To be a runner is to learn continual life lessons. To be a coach is not just to teach these lessons but also to feel them in the core of your marrow. The very act of surpassing personal limits in training and racing will bend the mind and body toward a higher purpose for the rest of my runners' lives. Settling for mediocrity-settling instead of pushing-those who learn to be the best version of themselves know the secret to a full life. "

― Martin Dugard

3 " deeds,” Stanley remembered later. "

― Martin Dugard , Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley & Livingstone

4 " commonality can most easily be seen in the seven common traits that all explorers possessed: curiosity, hope, passion, courage, independence, self-discipline, and perseverance. Explorers "

― Martin Dugard , The Explorers: A Story of Fearless Outcasts, Blundering Geniuses, and Impossible Success

5 " voices in the study of positive psychology, framed the traits as hope, wisdom, creativity, future-mindedness, courage, spirituality, responsibility, and perseverance. V. Paraphrased from a speech given by Bruce Springsteen "

― Martin Dugard , The Explorers: A Story of Fearless Outcasts, Blundering Geniuses, and Impossible Success

6 " No phantom of the future cast a shadow upon our sunny path, "

― Martin Dugard , The Explorers: A Story of Fearless Outcasts, Blundering Geniuses, and Impossible Success

7 " Self-belief does not necessarily ensure success, but self-disbelief assuredly spawns failure. "

― Martin Dugard , The Explorers: A Story of Fearless Outcasts, Blundering Geniuses, and Impossible Success

8 " Nyassa "

― Martin Dugard , Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley & Livingstone

9 " Just the hill and me. Just the challenge and me. Just my fears an me. Bring it on. "

― Martin Dugard , To Be a Runner: How Racing Up Mountains, Running with the Bulls, or Just Taking On a 5-K Makes You a Better Person (and the World a Better Place)

10 " Tanganyika, "

― Martin Dugard , Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley & Livingstone

11 " Rovuma "

― Martin Dugard , Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley & Livingstone

12 " The creepers twined up and around the great tree trunks so tightly that even dead trees remained upright, supported by the same parasitical vines that had killed them. "

― Martin Dugard , Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley & Livingstone

13 " The missionaries ate the local food. Sometimes, as in the case of one New Zealand tribe whose favorite recipe called for Anglicans, the locals ate the missionaries. "

― Martin Dugard , Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley & Livingstone

14 " that overwhelming desire to find a way to succeed, if only to be spared public humiliation. "

― Martin Dugard , The Explorers: A Story of Fearless Outcasts, Blundering Geniuses, and Impossible Success

15 " I shall look into your faces, And listen to what you say, And be very often near you, When you think I’m far away. "

― Martin Dugard , Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley & Livingstone

16 " would have made for a growing excitement. "

― Martin Dugard , The Explorers: A Story of Fearless Outcasts, Blundering Geniuses, and Impossible Success

17 " Presenting the world a stiff upper lip was not enough anymore. Now Speke needed to endure—to persevere. Or, as Nile duel moderator David Livingstone liked to say, Speke would need to “Bash on, regardless. "

― Martin Dugard , The Explorers: A Story of Fearless Outcasts, Blundering Geniuses, and Impossible Success